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I alluded, in a comment on my post below on Langston Hughes, to the minor political row which was prompted by John Kerry quoting him a few times in his speeches. Hughes was a commie for a while, you see, so John Kerry must be one too (though to follow this logic any further, one would have to conclude that Kerry is also a dead black poet).
I may not be trying to buy my way into your affections with fivers in brown envelopes, unlike some people, but I can still offer goodies to readers. The Mental is a play in the Axis Theatre in the new Arts Centre in Ballymun. My sister, Róisín McGarr, (who you may have seen in last Saturday's Irish Examiner) is the producer.
Poetry is harder work than prose. Certainly its harder to write, but it takes more out of the reader too, being distilled and concentrated with meaning in a way that most prose is not. For example, I'm currently working my way through Shakespeare's Sonnets at a rate of only five or six per evening.
Gareth Stack, author of the wildly popular Why Do We Bebo? article which has skewed tuppenceworth's statistics ever since it was published (top 5 search results- bebo, BEBO, Bebo + ie and Bebo skins) has posted a follow up on his own blog Hummingbird Mentality called The Next Bebo.
I spent some time over the weekend asking questions about the relationship between Balor of the Evil Eye and Croagh Patrick. Anyone who's been to Westport will realise that this is a mountain with powerful magical connotations. The fact that the Church had to claim it for their No.
I see today that Play. com is now saying"We are sorry, but we can only supply gadgets to UK addresses. You must choose a UK delivery address for this order.
Pac-Man: A Sad End Originally uploaded by Editor_Tupp. All our heros must fail us in the end. This can also be seen as part of Kind-i-Like's collection of things that look like people.
Amazon. co. uk recently ceased shipping electronic goods to Ireland.
Of all the many entertaining characters I encountered in reading Rachel Cohen’s brilliant set of interlinked mini-biographies of American artists, “A Chance Meeting???, the one I would most like to meet, with the possible exception of Mark Twain, would be the poet Marianne Moore. I think what impressed me most about her was the sheer style of her eccentricity.
Wood Communications and Alpha Vision Design would like you, the security forces of this or other states, to consider their lovely surveillance cameras. Silicon Republic would like to facilitate them in making this invitation. To recap on previous opinions I've expressed- ANPR coupled with casual storage of all data recorded by the system will not withstand legal challenge.
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