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May 12
Overwhelmed to receive a review of my book by the great Drew Gummerson. I couldn't ask for more than this. 🙏
May 12
Today’s substack is a review of a new collection of Irish short stories set in Dundalk, about schoolboys Dixon, McGurk and ‘meself’ by @thispersona - For All We Know We Don’t.
open.substack.com/pub/drewgu…
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I recommend this every year. The 1982 RTÉ production of Ulysses. It's fantastic to hear these actors bring it all alive. It is among the two or three greatest things the national broadcaster ever did. (This is available on YouTube also)
#Bloomsday #Joyce
open.spotify.com/show/4wntQz…
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Legitimately one of the funniest scenes I’ve ever seen
Jun 12
Curb Your Enthusiasm was always far superior to Seinfeld
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I didn't necessarily love #DisclosureDay, but I enjoyed it. It's the online hackery surrounding the film which has provoked my becoming a defender.
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Jun 14
My 4th book, You; From Pissed to Publication came just a year after Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel. A chapbook, 28 pages long, featuring the protagonist from Flamingo Hotel talking about his path to publication. TLS called it ‘indecently Bukowskian’.
tinyurl.com/2p86ehd7
Jun 13
My 3rd book, Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel, came out 6 years ago, 12 years after my previous one. I’d given up. Then I saw a new local publisher was setting up, Bearded Badger Books. Flamingo Hotel was finished so I thought, why not? Happy Pride 🏳️🌈.
tinyurl.com/74b93u8a
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Jun 13
It’s the 40th anniversary of Back to School, which features one of the best meta jokes ever.
Rodney Dangerfield hires Kurt Vonnegut to write a paper about Kurt Vonnegut… and Sally Kellerman gives it an F, saying the writer “doesn’t know the first thing about Kurt Vonnegut.”
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Jun 13
Nazi Punks Fuck Off
Michael Caine (El 4° Protocolo)
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Jun 13
Based on the last few days, no one else seems to have seen or heard of Capricorn One or Marathon Man or The Parallax View or The X Files. Or even Close Encounters of the Third Kind, for pity's sake.
Jun 13
Films that you love but no one else seems to know.
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Jun 13
One must be able to understand the tonal and stylistic contrast between the two. You can enjoy both Cecil B Demented and 8 1/2 and know the difference and not dismiss one as less earnest or complex as the other.
Jun 13
Rewatched ARRIVAL and its perfection highlighted my issues with DISCLOSURE DAY. The visual representation of the aliens, reasoning behind their arrival, deconstruction of language barriers etc. All of which felt fresh vs the tired tropes of DD’s crop circles and little green men.
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Jun 13
Delighted that the latest chapter on my work-in-progress is a Pick of the Day at the wonderful @ABC_Tales 🩵
Thank you 🙏
Jun 13
Our Friday Pick is another engrossing - and disturbing - chapter of marandina's wonderful 'Prophesy: The Immortal Witch'.
Beautiful writing and a zinger of a cliff-hanger:
abctales.com/story/marandina…
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Today we are celebrating W. B. Yeats’s birthday.
Yes, Joyce gets the hats, pints, breakfasts & walking tours... but Yeats had swans, occult furniture, impossible women, troubling politics, & Nobel Prize energy ... and good hair ... at least when Annie draws it he has!
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Jun 13
Can the world come together and sack these engagement-chasing con artists masquerading as online film buffs?
Jun 12
Citizen Kane is NOT better than Pulp Fiction
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Jun 13
The usual gaggle of bores and rubes are out to hang this one. To be honest, you'd think the general response was AI-generated, faciIe and dreary. No, it's not Close Encounters. Nor is it perfect. But nor is it as bad as any of these impatient morons claim. I enjoyed it.
My review of Disappointment Day...
youtu.be/NWnP8RdRrmM?si=g1jO…
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Jun 12
Thoroughly enjoyed reading 'FOR ALL WE KNOW WE DON'T' by @thispersona
Short stories set in the 80s centre around 3 lads in Ireland navigating life & the transition to senior school.
For me, it's a coming of age tale with 'boys will be boys' at its heart.
Highly recommended.
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Jun 12
Even the most brain-broken hater of the MSM is more likely to defer to wider consensus in a world desensitised by online subterfuge and folly. It's a conspiracy thriller. Of the Spielberg kind. It's not perfect. It's not science. It's not limp and listless like you clearly are.
Jun 12
I promised no spoilers as much as possible, but here is the basics for Disclosure Day. It is one of the most shocking pieces of propaganda I have seen in a while. It is the last call of the WWII consensus: aliens are your saviors and empathy is the only virtue.
In a post-Epstein world, it dares have a story of children seduced and kidnapped by aliens pretending to be Disney-style animals, taken to Hansel and Gretel's house (this is what it is called in the movie) to be "imbued" by aliens in a way so traumatic that they forget and repress it until they are adults, only to discover that this initiation has given them the power to:
See people's secret thoughts.
Pretend to be other people and use that to manipulate.
Make things in plain view disappear.
Translate foreign and alien languages.
Be a "passenger" for the alien's message to the world.
This is nothing to say about its take on Christianity and the suggested apostasy around accepting these beings.
Then finally the entire movie is a final desperate appeal to the traditional media as the only purveyors of truth. The entire drama of the film is a man who has irrefutable video proof of aliens looking to release it. The whole movie is a series of chases against the evil corporation that wants to keep it hidden. He ends up releasing it on the evening news! Yes, you heard me. He releases it on the evening news which is then transmitted to all the traditional media companies that are named: ABC, CNN, Fox News etc. Anyone under 70 will realize that the movie could have ended in 10 minutes with a laptop and wifi. It is really mad.
Don't go see it.
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Jun 5
Check out this brilliant review of my badly-formatted book. 😁👍
youtu.be/WcTmlTxMKCU?is=wvrA…
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Jun 11
'The Cuckold Clock'
From Joseph Strick's film of Ulysses, a truly bold and brilliant adaptation of a book if ever there was one.
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Jun 12
MAGA parasites speaking confidently about 'invaders', whilst completely unaware that their champions, the rodents burning families and children out of their homes, are the heirs of an actual invasion 800 years ago; and these raids and pogroms are not their first rodeo.
Jun 10
The same police that did nothing as Ireland's daughters and sons were raped and murdered. Velvet gloves for the invaders, iron boots for the Irish. The police are not your friends. They need to be harshly corrected.
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Jun 11
There's nothing funny about it, so I'll just say it's surreal to see U.S. commentators so totally ignorant of Belfast they don't grasp that many of the rioters are unionist/loyalist and would fight you for calling them Irish. They do not want Ireland, back or otherwise.
Jun 11
Kilmeade to an agreeing Markwayne Mullin: "In Belfast they're standing up because their leaders have let them down. They're trying to take their country back. They want to label them as racist. All they want to be is Irish. They want Ireland back. And that is what we've been saying for the longest time. I see a lot of the same fights here."
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