Art, media, opinion and ideas
What day was supposed to be poetry day? Monday was it? Well, never mind. I am, as Krusty the Klown once said, a lazy, lazy man, so I'll do my poetry thing whenever I can muster the initiative. This may be often, or it may be never, only time will tell.
If you'd like a lawyer's eye view of what happened yesterday in the Corrib Gas case, you can slope over to the McGarr Solicitors website to read up on it. McGarr Solicitors represent two of the Defendants in the Shell case- Brid McGarry and Brendan Philbin. Shorter version: Shell seeking to withdraw the claim that had 5 men put in jail for 94 days last year.
I've added a new site to my review of Terms and Conditions of Video Sharing sites. The gist:TreemoRelevant Clause: "You grant HyperBoy a worldwide, nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual and fully sublicensable and transferable right.
Podcasting is very hard work. Videocasting would be insanely hard work. This is because there are two very difficult parts to any successful effort in either- preproduction and post-production.
Well, it crashes my Firefox 1. 5. 0.
In his first foray into the world of writing for the new McGarr Solicitors site, my father has pointed out that, without noticing it, Ireland lost a lot of long-standing laws last year. Amongst them the mysteriously titled Prerogativa Regis (Royal Prerogatives) 'the Land of Lunatics' and 'the Land of Idiots'- which have been in force here since about the 11th Century.
I previously posted about the importance of registering to vote, with some figures intending to show that individual votes can make the difference between one government and another. As part of that, I linked to the pdf of the voter registration form. It was pointed out to me recently that this form is unprintable.
I mentioned yesterday having bought a book from the online store of Kenny’s Bookshop in Galway. Some nagging thought in my mind spurred me to spend a little time looking at their site. Hadn’t Kenny’s been in the news recently? The "About Us" page explained all: though the business thrives online, Kenny’s Bookshop of High Street, Galway is no more.
There, that got your attention, didn't it?My recent reading, The Redress of Poetry, a collection of Seamus Heaney's lectures delivered while Professor of Poetry at Oxford includes a stirring treatment of Brian Merriman's "An Chúirt Meánoíche".
It’s interesting to note how many of the great artistic movements got their names from insults hurled by their critics. The work of a group of Parisian artists was described as not painting, but mere “impressions??? and thus was born Impressionism. Later, in that same city, artists were derided as savage and primitive; “Fauves???, in short.
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