I have a list of links that have been brewing, mentions and such – and I have found 5 minutes to mention them!
– Firstly Irish Left Review – go look – it’s new and very shiny –
We believe that the Left must contest conservatism on a broad front – whether it be on issues of governance, the economy, social reform, culture or history,…
…For we are adamant: the marginalisation of the Left is at an end; the half-status and quarter-status of our political parties will no longer persist, the sublimation of our ideas and our history is a thing of the past.
Bring it on lads – it’s looking mighty good design wise too!
– Did you see all those journalists blogging? Shane Hegarty won best blog by a journalist- well done! Harry McGee is back blogging today. The hotbed of blogging in Ireland is really in Tara Street not Cork. (sees PROC types declaring fatwa on MP.)
Will Harry get an Irish Times blog? Who else would you like to see blogging from the Irish Times (and no John Waters is not an original answer!)
– The man who sold Michael Lynn a baby grand piano reads this blog. I’m trying for photos… There might be a hippo!
- I’m going to Creative Camp on Saturday to watch something being grabbed by the balls and help look at the reasons why there are lots of women doing lots of exciting things but we don’t get to hear about them. And think about what we can do to help.
I’m going to play in a castle with 10 foot thick walls and a dungeon with lots of creative types! Now now get out of my boudoir and into Web 2.0 women! (ye know who ye are!)
– And finally for now – as the curtain may be drawning on the Democratic nomination tomorrow (ah go on Hilary keep Richard and others in suspense – hang on there woman!) Slate look at the West Wing and Obama and the similarities. Barack Obama/Jimmy Smits/Matt Santos/ Barack Obama – You will believe…
This is just eery suggesting reality and fiction are so inter-twined, and it is particularly eery that the video tried to claim there is no similarity/ no copying between Obama and Santos… hmmm… it’s just words is it? I feel that the US media is giving Obama just a ridiculously easy time by comparison to Hillary. If there is no black or white (as Barack suggests), then why are the media tip-toeing around him? Either they’re afraid of ‘race’, or of him, or a bit of both. But then this video also elides gender politics, and focuses on masculinity, and that is the point about Obama, he’s still a man.
Creative Camp gets my prize for worst-named geek unconference ever. it sounds like a bunch of advertising copywriters on holiday…
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Maman Poulet, i’ve just seen a short interview on Sky News from Waco, Texas with a 91 year old woman who’d just voted for Hillary. Think her name was Velma, she was a bit dotty (who wouldn’t be at that age huh?) and was ferried around on a’mothership’. But she was so excited by the prospect of a woman in the WH, I can only think how little old ladies up and down the country are hoping for a real revolution… wonderful clip!
Hey MP – I think there’s a glitch in your blog – I can only read this entry and the previous one
Apparently Matt Santos only won the election because of the Death of John Spencer, the Actor who played his vice-presidential canidate, Leo McGarry.
The writers decided after the death of Spencer that having Santos lose both his running mate and the election it would be too much emotional strain and decided he should win the election!
http://url.ie/a74