anti-terror, Blackrock, culture jam, Dublin, street art
In Culture, Dublin, Urban environment on January 30, 2009 at 11:49 am
Catching the Doirt from Blackrock last week, I noticed that CIE appear to have a very clever strategy to prevent terrorist attacks at the station. Look at the text at the very bottom of the sign:
However, after some intrepid investigation (I Googled ‘No bomb please’), it quickly became clear that, unfortunately, this wasn’t the work of everyone’s favourite semi-state. See other examples here and here. So I guess that it’s, like, street art, or maybe a culture-jam-of-sorts.
And that fairly tenuous reference gives me an excuse to post pics of some of my favourite street culture jams:
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Chris Jericho, Mickey Rourke, professional wrestling, The Wrestler, WWE
In America, Culture, Entertainment on January 29, 2009 at 8:39 pm
On the SAG awards red carpet Mickey Rourke made the terrifying mistake of “offending Chris Jericho” by telling him he would be “coming” for him at the upcoming Wrestlemania event. Offending this particular WWE wrestler is apparently the “last thing you want to do”.
The professional wrestler, on top of his very ‘real’ game in the WWE at present was hilariously humourless on Larry King when he got a chance to confront Rourke. Rourke, thankfully, manages to maintain his composure in front of the stone-faced Jericho.
Those crazy wrestlers…
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Barack Obama, dail eireann, Declan Ganley, dublin west, election 2007, gaza, Irish Socialist Party, joe higgins, Libertas, Lisbon Treaty, mep elections, middle east, Progressive Democrats, socialist workers party
In Dublin, Economy, Education, Election, Europe, Irish Socialist Party, Labour Party on January 29, 2009 at 1:20 am
Yellow Roman Candles contributor JP O’Malley recently met with former Dublin West TD Joe Higgins to discuss Irish politics post-Lisbon and, hopefully, pre-the entry of Higgins onto the European political stage.
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abortion, Brussels, bureaucrats, conscription, corporation tax, Declan Ganley, elite, EU army, Irish Times, Libertas, Lisbon, myth, neutrality, Referendum, Referendum Commission, second, Standards in Public Office Commission, Treaty, Yes campaign
In Europe, Referendum on January 28, 2009 at 3:20 pm
That’s the subject of an article on the second Lisbon Treaty referendum I wrote for the latest issue of Sin, NUI Galway’s student newspaper.
Just this week, I saw this poster in a window beside the Royal Dublin Hotel on O’Connell St. It’s an example of one of the more extreme conspiracy theories that has being linked to Lisbon.
Light blogging here (ie, no blogging) since December. But that’s about to change. Lenny says he’s going to go ape on his keyboard in the coming days. Can’t wait…
