Paul

I write short stories. Urban fantasy. Detective with a fair sprinkling of comedy, set in my native Dublin. I have finished five so far out of a planned series of twelve. You can find them at: peonwrites.blogspot.com/p/contents.h...

Disclaimer: My posts here sometimes contain photos, which may affect viewers who are photo sensitive.

Got to wave a flag today #strike #speirgorm

"The president is his own best spokesperson." Well, I mean, look at his competition...

I'm going to be controversial on main for a moment. "Edge of Tomorrow" is by far the best of the suggested titles for that movie.

I don't care how good your YouTube video is, if you segue to talking about the sponsor mid-topic without a notification, I will stop watching.

You know when someone in cinema grins and the light reflects off their tooth with a "ting"? The weird thing *isn't* that reflected light should be completely silent. The weird thing is that we have accepted it so much that if film-makers ever omitted it, it would make the whole scene seem wrong.

Watching Maul:Shadow Lord. For a character with three lines of dialogue in Phantom Menace, this guy sure loves a good monologue.

Coming soon: Ed Sheeran's Gaza Girl

A lot of people must want to see this diverted traffic. There's signs for it everywhere.

Asking companies to slow down in their race to invent artificial superintelligence is like asking them to slow down in their race to invent time machines. Predicting the most likely next word in a sentence is a longass way away from birthing Brainiac.

I finally have my full driver's license. I can now legally: 1. Drive unaccompanied 2. Drive on motorways 3. Drive unaccompanied on motorways 4. Meet people at parties and other events and ask which way they came

Otter in the River Lee this morning, Cork City.

Partial Solar Eclipse from Cork

Bell's Field, Cork, taken from about a mile away this evening.

For fun, we put the classic story "Don't invent the Torment Nexus" into a Torment Nexus. The results are fascinating.

Today I learned that the Fenians (the 19th-century Irish revolutionary group) helped fund the first working submarine. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ph...

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif etc.

"I wish I had enough poison for the whole pack of you. I would gladly give my life to watch you all swallow it. I will not give my life for Joffrey's murder. And I know I'll get no justice here, so I will let the gods decide my fate. I demand a trial by Clacton by-election!"

“We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they’re elected. Don’t you?” “Why?” “It saves time.” Terry Pratchett - The Last Continent

24 hours later and I'm still annoyed. *We can't just call him 'Ram Man' with no explanation. That would sound silly." "Dude, do you expect people tuning into a He-Man movie in the year 2026 to be offended by sillyness?" And where the hell was Orko?!

I just spent 20 minutes talking to Mitch McConnell and he says he's fine and is watching the news and keeping up with events. I'd have asked more questions but the spooky lady in the tent wanted three more pieces of silver.

It's Bin-facé!

Spoke to Mitch McConnell for twenty minutes today. He bobbed up and down and said "gottle of geer, gottle of geer", in a voice strangely similar to Stephen Miller, who was sitting beside him.

Emperor Dragonfly seen flitting about the River Lee in Cork today.

A grey heron and three Cormorants sunning themselves. Spotted on my lunch walk today.

Every summer, people from either side of the Atlantic argue about heat and humidity and building construction and air conditioning and oh my god can we skip it for this year please.

You have to admit that "UFC event on the White House lawn" would make the best Hitman level of all time.

Cork today, where two swans seem to have adopted a batch of very ugly ducklings.

It's a bit of a relief that the He-Man movie is failing. If it became a franchise, we'd have to have about the Masters of the Universe Cinematic Universe.

If Star Trek is in the future and everything is metric, why isn't he named Kilometers O'Brien?

"Guys, we *really* need to come up with some sort of plan to defend Minos Korva." - Captain Picard to the Admiralty, upon returning home

Urban fox spotted in Blackpool last night.