Owl on the M1?

Aug 30, 2010 by John    2 Comments    Posted under: Uncategorized

I was on a bus yesterday and spotted this funny arrangement of trees. It was at the first M1/M50 roundabout coming from the airport. From the bus I thought that was an X in the middle, but I had a look on Google Earth and you can see it’s a continuation of the inner circles. If you just look at the shape, it looks like an icon of an owl or at least eyes with eyelashes. Here’s a bigger image.

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Or is it a sore arse?

JOR

Aug 26, 2010 by John    No Comments    Posted under: art

I went out and about last year during one of those culture nights. I just looked it up and the next one is in preparation for next month. See http://www.culturenight.ie/. last year, I ended up at a small exhibition by John O’Reilly and I’ve have keeping up with his blog ever since. Check it out: http://jorgallery.wordpress.com/.

I love his work. Recognisably local, very urban, and done in a style that works really well for the subject matter. I think he has a bit of a graffiti background. Great stuff. I just wish I could afford to buy paintings!

I don’t know why so many people paint all the twee parts of Dublin. I can’t stand that stuff. Well I’m sure there are more that don’t paint that kind of stuff but it sure fills Merrion Square every week. Gimme some urban! Innit!? Oi oi.

The Italian job planet of the apes

Aug 25, 2010 by John    No Comments    Posted under: Uncategorized

The Italian job planet of the apes, originally uploaded by jbraine.

GSOH

Aug 6, 2010 by John    No Comments    Posted under: Uncategorized

“Good sense of humour”. Bit of a pointless phrase really isn’t it? What people actually mean is “someone with the same sense of humour as me”. Which could be anything:

• Someone with really wry dark sense of humour?
• Someone who makes silly dad jokes at every opportunity?
• Someone who loves tasteless jokes?
• Someone who laughs out loud when they see Eddie Murphy in a fat suit?
• Someone who laughs out loud at pre-movie ads in the Cinema?
• Somehow who ROFLS at  a clip of someone falling off a rope-swing crossing a river?
• Someone who thinks crazy talentless people on talent shows are funny
• Or even someone who thinks its funny to write a blog post dissecting frequently used but pointless phrases?

There’s no such thing as a good sense of humour. Your good is my bad.

Same with music*. When you say someone has a great taste in music, what you really mean is they have the same taste in music as you.

*And pretty much anything else; Call the press, hold the headlines, someone on the Interweb has discovered that the word ‘good’ is subjective.