Art, media, opinion and ideas
It's a bad pun but one that's getting lots of use this week, here in sunny Urbana, Illinois. The National Conference on Media Reform is happening this week end and many of my fellow media students are heading to it. In US terms it's just down the road, being about two and a half hours away.
With Court finishing up on Thursday for one of it's periodic holidays, I'm at something of a loose end for a couple of weeks. Unlike some of my colleagues, I won't be going on the Bar Soccer Club trip to Valencia (that's Valencia with a "c". Think Spain, not Kerry).
By Sarah:My husband is a cat. A big, blond, hairy cat. He comes to be petted when he wants attention.
From Planet Potato : “Paudge Connelly TD (and who the fuck is he you might ask, I hear you) has justified his salary by posing the silliest proposition heard in the Dail this year ‘Mr. Connolly: Information Zoom I propose the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss a matter of urgent public and national concern, namely, the urgent need for Internet service providers ..
An insight into the hidden world of tuppenceworth's headquarters. So far we have ripped up the horrific swirly green carpet inherited from our predecessor publication "Ireland's Own- Interiors". The banisters have been transformed by the stinky magic of gloss paint to a bitter chocolate (80% coco, from the look of it) from the previous nicotine cream/grime colour.
Fluffy Dutton, our sex advice and vice columnist, returns to tuppenceworth. ie with a bang (or perhaps a whinny) in her new role as a Pony Girl, part of the Gringo O'Hara Drag King Spectacular. No, really.
Fergal's post on Libel on the Internet (printed here first scoop-hunters. ) is now an article in today's Irish Times. Page six in the Business section, for those with ready access to it.
I found this odd, but somehow endearing portion of the Dublin. ie website called the Virtual Institute of Simplicity. I took the chance to post them my simple idea- that there should be a number you could text to let Dublin Bus that someone is smoking on your bus.
Just back from a stroll in the sun to Mount St Crescent.
A Boldface Name Invites Others to Blog With Her: "Mr Lerer and Ms Huffington will manage the Post, with Mr Lerer overseeing a staff of half a dozen people in a loft in lower Manhattan. Ms Huffington and Mr Breitbart are based in Los Angeles.
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