Jared busking on Cruises Street, the main pedestrian street of Limerick. With him is another Killaloe-native, Shelley. This one’s from later on that evening, at Chris’ house. If memory serves, this was when he was playing “Mr. Brightside” by the Killers. I sang the melody line with Jared, Viv, and Colin providing their own harmonies.
“Eccleston was a tiger and Tennant was, well, Tigger. Smith [is] an uncoordinated housecat who pretends that he meant to do that after falling off a piece of furniture.” – Lynne M. Thomas
I don’t know how much of a problem lichess.org/ has with spam in the chat windows of ongoing chess matches, but I got some pretty weird messages during a game earlier:
Good grief. Reading the paper is totally something I should do more often, though. Like, actually read the paper — the New York Times app on the iPad doesn’t have the same nostalgic awesomeness.
I went into town on both Saturday and Sunday and it was raining quite heavily on both days. I made a run for a bus during a break in the downpour and managed to snap this picture on O’Connell’s Street:
September 28th, 7am Eastern Standard Time. I can’t believe a year went by so fast. It’s exactly a year since I had surgery in Minnesota. It was the start of 3 months of city-living, with days split between physio and homework. I became the true American Hipster, who’d find a different indie coffee-shop to study [...]
I read yesterday with great sadness that the Lifé Café (previously seen) is closing its doors “until further notice”. I visited the Life Café (featured in Jonathan Larson’s RENT) three times in the space of the week I spent in New York; seeing the RENT-head register and eating huevos rancheros and enjoying the chipper, personable [...]
Irish weather is a a phenomenon where uncertainty is the only certainty. I recently met my friend Jared in the George Hotel in Limerick and got this passable picture looking straight up at the hail-storm. Sitting in the cosy interior, swapping stories about Limerick theatre and writing novels, it was a very pleasant morning, the [...]
In 2008, nerdy comic-strip XKCD published this comic: Then, from the XKCD Blag: Holy crap. This strip’s been up for 800 seconds and it’s already the most controversial thing I’ve ever written … It turns out everyone and their mother has a fruit opinion, and every one of those opinions is now in my inbox. [...]