Kevin McGee

Extremely random Dublin people request: does anyone have an old gramophone they would be willing to lend for a week or so at the end of November? #speirghorm

#spéirghorm

Is Bluesky scrolling fucked for everyone, or has my phone gone weird?

I’m rewatching LA Confidential, and it strikes me that the composite protagonist is perhaps based on a Freudian diagram of the self: Bud White (id), Jack Vincennes (ego) and Ed Exley (superego). Whether that’s their model or not, it’s a masterclass in handling a group hero.

If I was Oliver Gogarty I’d be very worried.

spare a thought for a millennial about to move back in with his dad

πόθεν και ποί;

When I was a kid, one of my brothers had a source for occasional American comics. I’ve just started reading Spider-Man from the start, partly so I can find the issue where J Jonah Jameson calls him a “ballocks.” Will update.

There is one question, and one question only, that needs to be asked of O'Callaghan, Toibin et al. Why would you want to touch a child without their consent?

Are Iran going to do something bad to America before the elections?

I may be a fool, but till then, darling I'll leave no traces of this I'll do my cryin' in the piss I'll do my cryin' in the piss

re: not making kids hug and kiss people, I saw a great video ages ago that recommended adults ask "do you want a hug goodbye?" instead of "can I have a hug goodbye?" because it prioritises what the child is comfortable with over what the adult wants, I think it's a small but smart change

Tom Sawyer's friends belatedly realizing they got hustled:

FG sitting quitely in the corner hopeing the Taoiseach doesn't open a history book

no their not

So he endorses everything Fianna Fáil have done since 1945?

IKEAs are equipped with convenient areas where you can pause your furniture shopping to take a therapeutic break and angrily accuse and berate a baby.

Despairing (as I guess we all do) of the snuffling stupidity of Irish politicians, it’s good to be reminded that there are some decent voices out there.

The radiologist in THE EXORCIST was a real radiologist, cast for verisimilitude... He would later go to jail for murdering a gay lover, but is *suspected* of being the real life leather-bar serial killer that CRUISING with Al Pacino was based on.

Lovely post. The mirror reflecting Clark at his entrance also stresses his double nature. His gesture at “shoot off” is a suggestion of flight: Clark loves Lois so much he struggles to stay bound by an identity she can’t respect. CR plays both parts melting together, and does it beautifully.

Today is, rather wonderfully, the 31st anniversary of this excellent report from RTE (Ireland’s public service broadcaster) about DIRTY MUCKY FILTH coming to Cork in the form of Utopia Adult Products, a sex shop which owed its existence to… [checks notes] er, Saddam Hussein

But that’s just what they’ll do One of these days a Lime is gonna Ram a lance through you

I’ve forgiven Kennys for trailing young me around the shop as if my only mission in life was to steal a Vona Groarke first edition. (I genuinely have. Their service is excellent.)

It was enraging how long they had been clearly innocent, as the British establishment twisted itself into weirder shapes to keep them in prison. Then the English press the next day murmuring darkly about “freed on a technicality.”

I was inclined to mock this mismatch or ire and object until I remembered that not ten minutes ago I was angry at Rex Harrison in 2026. “Rex Harrison IS Julius Caesar! NO HE FUCKING ISN’T.”

Cones Hotline Alert! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

RTE’s position here is questionable. Two years ago the Late Late Show producer was warning acts they would be dropped if they wore Palestinian emblems.

I just read the Osman story to my partner, a former editor, and I’d advise him to stay out of Cavan for a while.

“You know, with Trump, the more I learn about the guy the more I don’t care for him.“

Happy Days (1961)

Oh no.

The revelations just keep coming.

Partner was surprised but pleased at my efforts to deep clean the dishwasher on Saturday morning. I did not explain it was because I drunkenly put a load of laundry in it the night before.

your geography teacher trying to make conversation with the PE teacher #CelebrityTraitors

“Une pipe,” if I remember right, is French-language slang for a blowjob.

And while we're at it - fuck our cowardly government, and the soup-takers on our sports teams who haven't the courage to do what Sally has done. Gutless, spineless pricks, turning a blind eye to a genocide to further their own careers. Fuck all of them.

I got talking about trad to a lovely US woman in the Cobblestone. Halfway through recommending me sessions in her hometown, she trailed off. Both of us knew there was almost no likelihood of a visit any time soon.

If you’re wondering where to start with Sally Rooney, here’s a free story. I think it’s the best thing I’ve read on what the Irish establishment is putting our young people through. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Ian Parker in the New Yorker. When your opening line is this good, you should get the rest of the week off.

I’ll be gutted if those Beatles films don’t have inter-screen jokes when you play them simultaneously. George tosses a cigarette in one movie and Ringo catches it in another. Paul and John each sing a snatch of melody, and it’s perfect counterpoint.

My parents got me a job as a paperboy. It did not play well with my 100% aphantasia and 0% sense of direction. I think the newsagent endured three days of me.

Happy Friday from this cheerful doggo in the Galway Corporation Records for 1646 (Liber A - @uniofgalway.bsky.social Digital Library).

I’m going to be so pissed if I get killed by a Tesla falling on my head like an anvil falling on the goddamn Coyote.

Interesting that “Nazi” comes under “race, nationality and ethnicity.”