Miscellaneous

Sunday Whatthehellany, Week Two

For adventurous recipes, ask a supercomputer. Specifically, IBM’s Watson. Listen to the background above and  get your own nightmarish yet delicious suggestions from Watson here.

 

Two grown men watch and review Sex and The City 2 once a week, which really is a terrible idea. It is pretty entertaining though

Whilst you’re listening to those, you could do far worse than having a quick read of this, which is day-to-day reality for women on this planet.

Now you sit as close to the driver as possible but it sometimes means a split-second judgment call on whether the man in the seat beside your prospective seat looks like a weirdo. You wonder which seat is the safest. You text your friends to let them know you made the last bus.

‘Don’t go anywhere: Risk management for women’ by Stephanie Lord.

What can I say?

I haven’t gotten anything done. Oh well. My mind is like a bunch of nothing. Today was a total loss, but it’s not important. I’ve just been letting everything happen without me these days.

Current Mood: [Face] phlegmatic

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Sunday Whatthehellany

Some leisurely listening for a Sunday.

This digs a little deeper into the myth constructed around Rosie the Riveter,  brought back briefly into the public consciousness by Beyonce recently. Amongst other things covered is the tort of seduction, if you happen to be a fan of that patronising piece of law.

A look back at Twin Peaks and how it allowed David Lynch to become an unexpectedly influential part of American popular culture for more than a decade. Keep the entire Pacific Northwest weird.

 

If you listen to just one thing this weekend, make it this. No, seriously, just listen to it now. It’s about animals and people and conservation and the past and the future, awith a cracking musical accompaniment.

All 6 episodes of the BBC Radio 4 production of Terry Gilliam and Neil Gaiman’s book Good Omens have been broadcast. That means they’re available online for another twenty four days if you’re interested. I’ve only listened to the first one so far, but it sounds very good.

The Sounds Of Sodomy

Today was the day the marriage equality referendum in Ireland kicked off in earnest. The first day in the office for many was made a little bit special by the circulation on Twitter of a leaflet of unknown origin which had some thoughts on sodomy.

 

The hashtag #soundsofsodomy trended (of course it did)

Start As You Mean To Go On

In an illustrious start to the new year the Indo ran piece on its website last night headlined ‘Reboot Ireland: Musician Jim Corr to ‘stand strong’ with Lucinda Creighton – despite dubbing politician ‘too crazy’ just weeks ago‘. The piece has since been removed. This action was presumably taken when someone became aware that the Twitter account the quotes were sourced from (@therealjimcorr) was a parody account.

Keep up the good work Indo!

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