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Friday morning coming down

The good news: this is the view from my hotel room. Bad news: It’s 7am and time for the Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show. These people are fucking insane.

Asleep (1985)

“Who were your influences, hair-wise, back in the day?”

“My influences, my influences… Bobby Charlton…? No, not him. I can’t think of the guy’s name now. Hold on, your mother might remember…” Read the rest of this article here.

It’s Not Easy Being Green (and Red)

Right. I’m outta here. Got a call last night to see if I wanted to go on tour with Ian Dempsey and Mario Rosenstock and their Gift Grub thingy. I’ll be writing about it for the paper, you understand. (It’s hilarious the number of people I’ve told, who assumed they’d asked me to perform. What? On the back of this? Really!?) Read the rest of this entry »

Are these the greatest consecutive tweets ever?

I must admit, I’m belatedly warming to Twitter. One guy who followed me on there (so I reciprocated) posted this the other night. He followed that shortly afterward with this… Read the rest of this entry »

Miscellaneous Amusing Items I’ve Come Across #35

How the hell have I never heard about this until now? Johnny Slade’s Greatest Hits is a 2006 screwball comedy featuring virtually the entire supporting cast of the Sopranos in what appears to be an ill-advised, campy gangster romp. It looks absolutely really, really terrible… I have to see it!

Document sets out the minimum calorie intake required by Gaza’s 1.5m population, according to their age and sex*

On Monday, the BBC published a full list of goods permitted into Gaza, under the Kafkaesque terms of the Israeli blockade. The contents of that list had long been the subject of exasperated conjecture for both humanitarian organisations and commercial importers. (Some of the proscribed items include jam, chocolate, wood, fruit juice, textiles, and plastic toys.)

Yesterday, I received this email from Eoin Murray of Trócaire (who kindly helped arrange my visit to the besieged city in the summer of 2008.) He wrote: Read the rest of this entry »

In case you missed this last night…

Contender for greatest ever blog comment here.

World’s Most Devastating Comeback Leaves Me Torn Between Weeping, Ending It All…

Holy fuck! Lesson = Learned. How am I supposed to match the Don Rickles-esque comic genius of Ian O’Doherty? He must have a crack team of twelve year old boys writing these zingers for him!

“Here’s an act of random kindness… Put some bloody trousers on!”

RONAN HARRINGTON
Move over organised religion. There’s a new game in town.

You’re a non-profit company that manufactures underpants. Is that correct?
No, no… We are ARK. It stands for Acts of Random Kindness. We’re a clothing brand with a big idea. Every time a customer wears something of ours, we ask them to perform one random act of kindness that day. We pay ourselves a wage, but any profits we make beyond that are invested back into the company to spread the message. Extra monies we make further down the line will go into a charitable fund. It started out with t-shirts, but we’ve since branched out into Ark Underwear… For Undercover Kindness! Read the rest of this entry »