tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39024160043394626562011-07-08T08:04:55.749+01:00lucy takes offA little conversational nudity in blog formherecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.comBlogger6691100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-14902137017143707242010-09-07T12:45:00.000+01:002010-09-07T12:45:28.695+01:00Lucy Foley, CopenhagenI'm releasing my debut album on October 1st! It's called Copenhagen. Without further ado, here it is.
It's A Tangle by Lucy Foleyherecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-53401968908416069262010-04-10T18:56:00.000+01:002010-04-10T18:56:09.174+01:00Beautiful twitter numbersThis set of numbers showed up last night on my twitter profile. I haven't tweeted since, but I stopped following something so really, the numbers are out of whack now anyway. Still. I'm thinking I'll follow someone else, and then the numbers will be beautiful again! And then what... and then what...herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-58233681602474924232010-04-08T02:16:00.002+01:002010-04-08T02:23:05.351+01:00A fabulous list of search enginesThis was the drop down list in the 'where did you hear about us' section of the sign-up form for my new web hosting service. Pretty odd. But kind of inspiring. Like these sites are lurking waiting to be used, largely hanging out in clumps in the dark, like mushrooms or yeast.
Yes, I will be moving soon, am making a new site for my new record right now, though I haven't yet decided what the herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-2795300575322216902010-03-29T14:55:00.003+01:002010-03-29T15:00:31.673+01:00Live Barn Owl Nest CamThe most exciting thing on the internet right now. Even when she is asleep and sitting on her babies.
via indiaherecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-23258469801855757052010-03-20T18:18:00.002Z2010-03-21T02:03:59.084ZCool stuff made by my friends, #2: Vacuum Tree Head, ThirteenLast year, I sang some vocals on an album by a band called Vacuum Tree Head, aka Jason Berry and a loose collective of musicians based in San Francisco and New York. They have been making music for some time, and their latest album is the first time I have sung with them. The album has recently been released and is called Thirteen. It's brilliant and intense, a tightly packed twenty minutes of herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-40742545657041858942010-03-10T13:54:00.000Z2010-03-10T13:54:04.632ZWe are made of star stuffherecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-88966991006446139462010-03-07T00:27:00.001Z2010-03-07T00:27:55.384ZYou're not going to like thisWhat you're looking at here is the remains of an Albatross chick from a tiny little island called the Midway Atoll in the North Pacific, where
more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-81502534989303650592010-02-21T21:15:00.002Z2010-02-21T21:16:05.845ZHe could not get enough of her stinky lovingherecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-15557118908635905382010-02-13T15:52:00.003Z2010-02-13T17:41:11.775ZWombat Recording CompanyJesus this place has become a bit of a youtube zone of late. I'm going to spend the next while posting links to work by friends of mine, stuff I find inspiring, fun, interesting, good. Let's start with Wombat Recording Company.
This is the home of Ross Bonadonna, owner and operator of Wombat, which is a recording studio and creative production studio in Brooklyn, New York. I've been making my herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-42208465972039847552010-02-13T12:25:00.000Z2010-02-13T12:25:24.423ZTommy CooperTommy Cooper, interviewed by Michael Parkinson in the seventies.
herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-84946968557576152712010-02-10T11:33:00.001Z2010-02-10T22:36:44.140ZRobin Hood taxRichard Curtis has launched a campaign for the Tobin tax. It's pretty good.
Amongst the responses from leading economists is the opinion that this will probably not fly unless it is also broadly accepted by the large European countries (ie France and Germany) and the US. And the US, they say, will never accept it.
Also posted at Clusterflock.
herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-87284685587801495882010-02-09T15:16:00.001Z2010-02-09T15:16:00.476ZJust have to have more of thatJanis on Dick Cavett, some time later. Got to love a chatshow host that has a lighter on standby on the desk. And the refreshingness of the conversation! And nobody has to hold up the record because everybody who needs to know about the record knows about the record. Goddammit.
herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-73450982062452014042010-02-08T15:11:00.001Z2010-02-08T15:11:00.203ZThey laughed me out of class, out of town and out of the state, manSo I'm goin' home.
Ah, Janis. This is beautiful.
herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-28901348275445480322010-02-07T01:44:00.000Z2010-02-07T01:44:44.068ZOh god this is so greatJanis Joplin and Gloria Swanson meet on Dick Cavett. Hilarity ensues inside a minute.
herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-5148795992614125402010-02-07T00:59:00.000Z2010-02-07T00:59:05.147ZJimi Hendrix on Dick Cavett
Well it really was 1969. I think this is the first interview I have ever seen with him.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-29388659886106113292010-02-06T22:41:00.001Z2010-02-06T22:55:15.736ZShackleton's southern voyage, 1914 - 1917 I've just watched this documentary. It's brilliant and thrilling.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-42065324453925129682010-01-30T03:57:00.000Z2010-01-30T03:57:09.467ZAnother monster day on Clusterflockwhere I do most of my blogging these days.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-12548369571378247502010-01-12T22:01:00.001Z2010-01-12T22:02:53.037ZFreddy's is fighting back and they're doing it on Fox News, baby
When I'm in Brooklyn, my local bar is Freddy's. Freddy's is a bar where you can walk in the door and meet friendly faces, have a pint and a chat, listen to a band play, watch Donald's all day long art video installations made of heavily edited film and tv archive footage, sit in peace and read, and talk to at least a dozen people you are likely to know there. Freddy's is the heart and soul of herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-81907279887898069862010-01-09T19:17:00.000Z2010-01-09T19:17:45.602ZPaula Carino, Open on SundayA friend of mine in Brooklyn has made a new album, and she's using kickstarter to help her fund CD manufacturing costs. If you click on the widget below, it will take you to a page full of links to some of her music and where you can support her for as little as $8, which will get you a free download of the album as soon as it's out!
Only three days to go before the funding deadline, so get busyherecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-52651784094495405692010-01-08T19:26:00.003Z2010-01-08T19:28:46.970ZIreland has run out of salt(From my Facebook page)
Lucy Foley Ireland has run out of salt.
Michael i heard about this...don't go outside.
about an hour ago
Kelsey I heard that the Netherlands have resorted to using fragrant bath salts on their roads.
about an hour ago
Lucy Foley All the supermarkets are even out of domestic salt(If you've lived anywhere actually cold, you'll recognise that -4 is not even all that herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-90627462377428824612009-12-30T01:47:00.001Z2009-12-30T01:47:07.564ZHut roof stalactitesHut roof stalactites, originally uploaded by here comes lucy.From a series of local pictues of the first snow wave of this winter, on my Flickr site.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-83707791609603570272009-12-30T01:42:00.001Z2009-12-30T01:42:46.732ZOur palm tree in the freeze, 2Our palm tree in the freeze, 2, originally uploaded by here comes lucy.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-87463417277486731872009-12-30T01:41:00.001Z2009-12-30T01:41:57.426ZA glimpse of blueA glimpse of blue, originally uploaded by here comes lucy.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-48150069484741866062009-12-26T01:33:00.001Z2009-12-26T01:33:26.903ZSnow treeSnow tree, originally uploaded by here comes lucy.Or a green pyroclastic cloud.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-18122453833158609442009-12-24T23:50:00.000Z2009-12-24T23:50:26.661ZI read a tirade against mulled wine a few days ago
About how it was cheap shit, heavily diluted, and harshed the writer's carefully tended ongoing Christmas buzz with its nasty germs and commonness.
However.
If you make it with a nice wine, and don't add water, add cointreau, nice spices and lemon juice, you end up with a kind of take-it-seriously mulled wine. Recommended.
I set up my flickr account to auto post my photos on this page, but herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-38967157811500959652009-12-16T13:52:00.002Z2009-12-16T13:52:23.580ZDown under, at nightOne of my favourite things: the London Underground. Getting worked on.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-12985187203924693392009-12-09T04:01:00.000Z2009-12-09T04:01:42.565ZHard not to like himThe Guardian published an interview with George Michael a few days ago. Got to love his frankness.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-62202941740180145082009-12-03T01:34:00.000Z2009-12-03T01:34:43.523ZEloquent woman alertThis woman is pretty cool. Her name is Diane Savino, and she's the Democratic senator for Staten Island, who made this speech on Wednesday for the state senate gay marriage bill, which went down 36-24. Though frankly, I think if you give it some time, you will also see endless tv series' where 30 gay men compete to become the husband of someone they have only previously seen in a sportswear herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-21511223864791496072009-11-29T23:05:00.000Z2009-11-29T23:05:20.684ZSee the SeamsThis got voted #1 in The Guardian's Best-Of-Decade best-in-show album list, which I think says more about British broadsheet criticism than it does about albums that were made in the last 10 years. The criteria they used to decide this were also boringly fashion based. But the guy clearly has a playful and energetic way with words. I think I'm going to sit down and listen to this all in one go, herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-53196201753632616112009-11-17T12:16:00.002Z2009-11-17T12:18:46.655ZThis is a very moral story in pictures about what happens when you walk on people.
You get EATEN. Yes. By the cute docile guys. You get eaten.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-12164349561232258832009-11-13T21:43:00.005Z2009-11-13T22:34:35.731Z"The hit song is hard to come by these days..."Do you sometimes write poems? Do you harbour a secret desire to one day hear them set to music, sung by a silky smooth crooner, or just someone who can sing? Well, for the small price of $99, you can have somebody spend 48 minutes 15 seconds with your song on Protools and have a real genuine actual CD made of your song-poem.
It's an industry, and though one of the operators in this documentary herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-47715525814654067632009-11-04T09:31:00.002Z2009-11-04T20:23:48.222ZJames Lovelock goes to spaceThe Gaia Theory independent climate scientist is now past his ninetieth birthday (must be surely 91 at this point?) and he's as interesting as ever. In this video interview, he talks about his forthcoming trip into space. This was recorded back in April, so I wonder if he's gone yet?
UPDATE herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-48465226841717342272009-11-03T22:26:00.000Z2009-11-03T22:26:07.906ZI watched A Ma Soeur last nightHave any of you seen it? God I would love to discuss this movie with someone. Maybe we could have a skype-in or something. Thoughts?herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-59020750991885344522009-11-03T22:20:00.003Z2009-11-03T22:21:34.893ZLatest pics from the Hut Insulation Projectare now posted to my Flickr.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-82387159943841116392009-11-02T22:10:00.001Z2009-11-02T22:20:23.431ZDrawmo!
November is Drawmo (Draw month, Draw More)! A bunch of internetistes will be drawing and posting every day for the month of November, and you're welcome to join us. There is also a flickr.
30 Days, 30 Days of Drawing.
You can come. We are friendly.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-39842957126795495192009-10-30T10:02:00.004Z2009-10-30T15:45:14.432ZDetritus of the weekNabokov
F Scott Fitzgerald
Dead Flies Art
The NYT looks at the Donmar
On ne parle que d'eux
Alan's show at IMMA
Brioche buns not yet made
A tab I have had up on my browser for about 2 months, task unfulfilled
The U2 concert
The black panthers
UPDATE: A really good, plain speaking article from the murky realities of juvenile rape (thanks, Stan)
herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-82530159940457135762009-10-28T01:21:00.004Z2009-10-28T01:28:12.418ZMad WorldUsually when a pop or rock song is remade as an acoustic piece of melancholia, especially if it involves strings, it bores the crap out of me. But I have been mesmerised by this song, and go through bouts of listening to it over and over. It's gorgeous. It is like Gary Jules excavated the original Tears For Fears song and made it vibrant again. The piano riff is a very lovely thing, it really herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-84678458035053255232009-10-24T15:52:00.003+01:002009-10-24T15:56:31.590+01:00Oops! Looking a little orange there...This is my favourite picture of the week. Ladybirds at the seaside, and worlds side by side.More ladybirds at the Guardian, including the really really evil ones who eat the really really good ones.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-13535352066739182162009-10-21T19:20:00.002+01:002009-10-21T19:21:15.440+01:00Joe Stiglitz talking senseFrom the New Yorker.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-18465685951589294172009-10-20T16:05:00.005+01:002009-10-20T16:18:26.412+01:00Nellie sings!
This is Nellie, who stayed with us for a while a couple of weeks ago. She is a very smart and talented and silly dog, and her favourite song is the Coronation Street theme tune. Every time we played it, this was how she responded. In this video, Nellie is singing along to the old version of the tune, and as it turns out, she didn't like the bridge. Maybe it is just that she didn't know the herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-78325197595914404072009-10-12T13:23:00.004+01:002009-11-03T12:25:53.027ZThe Stanley
fig 1
fig 2
I am rejuvenating my work hut in the field with some cool silver covered fibreglass insulation. When it is done, my work hut (see fig 1) will look like a wooden cabin from the outside and Warhol's Silver Factory on the inside. I do so love contrasts. This work involves a lot of 'space blankets' (see what I mean?) and a staplegun. A fancy staplegun. A Stanley staplegun (see fig 2).herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-91079587487010687192009-09-21T09:12:00.001+01:002009-09-21T12:12:23.092+01:00I think we all need this todayMarlene Dietrich playing the saw. Short and sweet. If you want to skip the repartee, start about 1:15.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-36779005011650839742009-09-19T23:56:00.003+01:002009-09-19T23:59:38.433+01:00How to make limoncello!I'm quite taken with the old guy in this video recipe for a good basic limoncello. It sounds very good. But where the hell does a person get 'pure alcohol' that isn't Poitin, in Ireland? Or this 'Everclear', for that matter?herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-15597015294135499612009-09-17T22:22:00.002+01:002009-09-17T22:24:53.336+01:00So, humans make horror films and think they're really scaryWell, have a look at this.via Radiolab.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-32386893356897403882009-09-17T01:45:00.002+01:002009-09-17T02:00:54.919+01:00Fantasy of a Jimmy Carter past futureI just spotted this on a comment thread following a Michael Tomasky article about Carter's comments about the Joe Wilson fandango, and I thought there would be a few people who read this blog who would enjoy it. It comes in the context of a number of people on the thread talking about how Carter's presidency was a failure and how great Ronald Reagan was that he came in and saved the Americans herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-83161561727805764962009-09-08T20:05:00.000+01:002009-09-08T20:06:05.637+01:00So I haven't written in a couple of weeksherecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-17699254516517419222009-09-05T14:48:00.001+01:002009-09-05T14:49:52.791+01:00Loving earwigsGosh, this blog has been full of dead old guys lately, I've just noticed. Phew. Here, read this article about the sensual, passionate, feminine natures of earwigs instead.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-18984468197662784142009-08-30T21:11:00.001+01:002009-08-30T21:13:46.608+01:00The passion of his lifevia cosmic varianceherecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-18528617941878258162009-08-04T02:55:00.004+01:002009-08-04T02:58:00.082+01:00Been offcycling in the rain through the countryside of Cork. I had no idea that getting soaked for hours on end, monsoon soaked, tropically soaked, can be having the time of your life. I am very happy to have made this discovery.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-59687890818543480502009-07-24T22:09:00.002+01:002009-07-24T22:12:34.430+01:00Please touchherecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-72937153287541097522009-07-17T11:53:00.000+01:002009-07-17T11:54:14.343+01:00Frank McCourt is unwellI was born and reared in Limerick city. We have some good writers here, amongst them: Kate O'Brien, Michael Hartnett, and of course the one who travelled the furthest, Frank McCourt. Frank McCourt had mixed experiences when he returned to Limerick after the book was published and had become such a runaway hit all over the world: a small but vocal number of people didn't like what he had been herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-59205093423792548322009-07-15T02:46:00.003+01:002009-07-15T02:48:52.031+01:00The Red Man In The DoorDo you have to be on facebook to see this? Is that how it works? A short play of mine will be performed in London on Sunday. You're welcome. The play is called "The Red Man In The Door" and it has been described as a "brilliant new short play" by Rebecca Atkinson-Lord. We will see.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-85439821952539995552009-07-12T18:46:00.001+01:002009-07-12T18:48:25.599+01:00Ok so it's a few days late for the 4th... but it's never too late for this.(via Cosmic Variance)herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-67327681086995004972009-07-08T18:21:00.007+01:002009-07-09T01:01:11.557+01:00The 2 Train: sweet and groovySo I'd like to introduce you to The 2 Train: my new band! The 2 Train is me, Lucy Foley (voice) and Ross Bonadonna (guitar). We play a mixture of jazz, pop and bossa nova songs. Ross and I have been playing together since he discovered I could sing, and this past March we recorded a bunch of songs by the fireplace here in Clare. You can hear them on our myspace page. We're also busy making my herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-7168942327878267102009-07-05T18:32:00.004+01:002009-07-05T18:40:37.169+01:00Missus, todayMissus, who knew a cushy number when she climbed in my window and saw it. About halfway down the comments on this post, we're talking cats and rescue.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-6232400016534194002009-07-02T14:53:00.003+01:002009-07-02T14:55:52.179+01:00Two wet squigletsThere is also video. Who wants to see video? Please register your interest in the comments.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-46381629882678092142009-07-02T14:52:00.003+01:002009-07-02T14:53:15.122+01:00Inevitably, this has to happenherecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-13232957209598020012009-07-02T14:51:00.003+01:002009-07-02T14:58:53.621+01:00Four squiglets in the bathHey, if you don't like the occasionally cute moments on this blog, there are plenty of other uncute places on the internet for you to loiter.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-54813845119411473432009-07-02T13:32:00.006+01:002009-07-02T13:43:30.297+01:00Wild mothersIn yet another example of how callous mothers often are in the wild, a koala mother has flung one of her newly born twin babies out of her pouch, to be delightedly hand raised by a human in a Crocodile Dundee hat who has thought fully provided a koala soft toy for it to climb on, instead of a pouch. We are so judgmental about our own species' examples of indifferent mothering, when cute furry herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-20193191011260905812009-06-29T15:32:00.002+01:002009-06-29T15:34:33.310+01:00This is the kind of thing I have to deal with latelyherecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-31105271422665632642009-06-29T13:26:00.005+01:002009-06-29T13:32:08.755+01:00Leaving New York, from the skyherecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-7985776977369215292009-06-29T13:13:00.006+01:002009-06-29T13:25:20.780+01:00Looking for LucyThis guy made a tumblr and postered downtown Manhattan with these posters and postcards, apparently in the hope that he would find some chick he walked a couple of blocks home one evening. This is the kind of madness that New York sets off every minute of every day.Actually, the site and postering campaign seems to be to publicise this internet tv series. It's pretty grim. For the real deal, go herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-3536398112939511292009-06-28T18:24:00.003+01:002009-06-28T18:27:02.848+01:00Ordinary people, at picnicApparently Michael Jackson spent some time in Ireland a couple of years ago. He was trying to find a place to live here. None of it worked out, but some stories have emerged from that time. This anecdote was one I thought illustrated something very nicely. Something about massively different worlds, at picnic.Pat O'Hagan of estate agents Savills showed the star and his children around a "large, herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-40961236493242224432009-06-28T13:23:00.000+01:002009-06-28T13:25:22.215+01:00The Black Toadherecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-84552406987045123552009-06-28T13:22:00.001+01:002009-06-28T13:23:22.196+01:00Alphabet streetThis is short, but kinda cool. Also the only actual youtube video of Prince singing Alphabet Street that I could find at 3am last night. Sometimes you just need it.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-67609208044528915992009-06-27T02:55:00.005+01:002009-06-27T04:00:23.918+01:00A few interesting Michael Jackson linksOk, well if you're looking for some way beneath the MJ myth, you might want to start with this. Oh, love of Lisa Simpson has revealed some of the finest humanity in many human hearts, and this is very sweet indeed.MJ wrote "Do the Bartman"! because he loved Bart Simpson so much. Well I feel Michael Jackson's heart here. This is lovely.A journalist who knew MJ personally for years, talks.Lisa herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-3703892056665305092009-06-25T13:30:00.003+01:002009-06-25T13:32:04.021+01:00A balloon on Houston streetLess than a minute later, a yellow cab ran over it and it burst.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-24627073315601069432009-06-24T22:10:00.005+01:002009-06-24T22:13:36.141+01:00Oh the jetlagOk I got up early today but I am absolutely fecked. I'm hoping an early night tonight can do it.The guy in the middle was a depressed fish in the window of a restaurant on 5th ave around the corner from us, who just stayed in this position the whole time I stood there gazing at him. It is like he knows.I never saw him again after this.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-79989220516416244772009-06-24T02:54:00.004+01:002009-06-24T03:02:10.990+01:00The man in the blue suit; the man in the white suitSo the security queue at JFK was a nightmare of inefficiency and chaos, with a guy in a blue suit and blue latex gloves in a desk in the middle of it all, looking around at anyone who sniffed and took everybody's passports and put a little mark on them. I suppose they had to give him something to do. His job was to look out for sniffles. Seriously.It's not going to be so easy to get rid of swine herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-89394408157155023902009-06-23T15:47:00.001+01:002009-06-23T15:51:25.444+01:00Wing of the plane as dawn brokeherecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-69550622099938678542009-06-23T14:43:00.000+01:002009-06-23T14:43:37.617+01:00StochasticityRadiolab has made a fantastic episode about stochasticity, the nature of chance and randomness. They pack a hell of a lot of stuff into 59 minutes.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-40412649496461536102009-06-22T18:50:00.003+01:002009-06-22T18:54:30.035+01:00ClonlaraDelicious dancing.That's all you're getting out of me today, after 3 whole minutes of sleep in the past 24 hours and more. The Jetlag gods are tossing me like a baby seal between the noses of playtime whales. Too many trains (2) planes (2) airports (3) cars (2) and now, a bed I can splay out in. Tar is playing it cool. I will try to bribe him with great big American chewtreats. Meanwhile, he herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-18608618468320501772009-06-18T15:53:00.005+01:002009-06-18T16:23:03.695+01:00The Yes Men: new action todayYou remember the fake New York Times that was distributed last November announcing the end of the Iraq war? Well, there is a fake International Herald Tribune being circulated today, in an action by Greenpeace, which is being released in advance of the Copenhagen summit on December 19 2009. In it, EU leaders thank the European public for having engaged in months of civil disobedience leading up herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-7966626147937662552009-06-14T07:22:00.003+01:002009-06-14T07:26:08.463+01:00Our local pigeonThe white one. The black one approaching is probably also from the neighbourhood but I don't recognise him. In other news, I just had a brief frank exchange of views with an adult cockroach who appeared for a late night chat beside me, on the sofa.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-53044448419820533952009-06-14T07:21:00.003+01:002009-06-14T07:22:35.623+01:00Central Park at nightBy the lake on the east side.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-2556586479987012392009-06-11T01:35:00.004+01:002009-06-11T01:42:52.090+01:00When life is like a movie (set)So there was this film set at JFK when I arrived there last month. It was very strange after spending 7 and a half hours in an airplane and walking through JFK the airport, and then JFK the movie set, with literally nothing but these weird signs (no contact info, barely the name production company indicated on the first sign but not the second one, no right of reply, the 'area' indicated by the herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-77975086828718998612009-06-06T22:08:00.000+01:002009-06-06T22:10:00.525+01:00The Mexican Breakfast Started Hereherecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-48223026753775264822009-06-06T21:36:00.002+01:002009-06-06T22:07:09.973+01:00How we liveherecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-3361777127055960212009-06-04T21:47:00.006+01:002009-06-05T18:36:28.096+01:00Advice of the day“It’s all about character. Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”Watch yourself become a paranoid maniac.I just came across this on someone's otherwise interesting tumblr. There's so much of this kind of idea. It sounds like a herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-46223809530970708632009-06-04T21:44:00.002+01:002009-06-04T21:44:57.277+01:00The Toadsherecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-90473219123271552862009-06-02T11:25:00.000+01:002009-06-02T16:26:09.302+01:00Meeting yourself as a young ghostOver on Sentence First, Stan posted a photo of a local crow's hangout in Galway that used to be an indie club back in the day, and is now derelict. This put me in mind of a flat I lived in once, and revisited a few years later. It was a flat I lived in my second year in Trinity, in Grosvenor Square, Rathmines. I went for a walk one evening and found myself knocking on the door. Mumbled something herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-73403079772073133502009-05-30T17:05:00.003+01:002009-05-30T17:11:28.702+01:00Keep leftherecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-89550894077340275632009-05-30T17:02:00.001+01:002009-05-30T17:05:34.688+01:00A New York city dustbinlooking unusually clean and neat.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-62179364251506391252009-05-28T06:41:00.000+01:002009-05-28T11:41:32.342+01:00If it's Wednesday this must be New YorkIt is, and it's also 6 am. The jetlag gods are gently letting me know who's boss for the next day or so. I can hear the subway trains roaring underground, through the street grills on the end of the block. The sounds of birds, the dogs and the dense thick silence of Clare has been replaced by vehicle beeps, traffic, subway sounds. Everyone has an American accent. The Mexican food is still herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-48333028066688996182009-05-27T13:50:00.001+01:002009-05-27T13:50:00.517+01:00Fancy investigating the alexander technique?Here is an article from a practitioner, with some easy exercises, designed to loosen the posture and free the voice. I haven't tried it yet, but I am very interested in the alexander technique. It is a system of posture retrieval that aims to peel away the layers of awkwardness and stress that may have been put on the posture, in order to allow it to be what it is, naturally and in the raw. It's herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-77878086672253789002009-05-27T09:47:00.000+01:002009-05-27T09:47:00.139+01:00A cheerful community in difficult circumstancesI find this daisy community very very inspiring. Living the vulnerable, open, cheerful life, in some remarkably precarious circumstances. Appreciate your local daisy community!herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-64064455692280124342009-05-26T13:25:00.003+01:002009-05-26T13:31:18.524+01:00Instructions for an adventureI found this on the road into the village a week or so ago, scrunched up. I de-scrunched it, and saw that it was, in fact, a series of very specific directions:Go over new bypass heading towards the Lahinch RoadCome to roundabout on Lahinch RoadTake 1st left on roundaboutHead toward EnnisGo 200 yards, see stone wallTake 1st left after stone wallAnd you are there.On the word 'there' was sitting a herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-14322502518265040122009-05-26T00:57:00.004+01:002009-05-26T01:42:31.935+01:00A train journey, revisitedA lovely interlude, as Laura Barton revisits Philip Larkin's 1964 train journey that resulted in his poetic meditation on England: The Whitsun Weddings.Oh yes and listen to the audio on the Poetry Archive page. Just listen to this poem. As you fall asleep...herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-58179388297905454032009-05-23T18:53:00.002+01:002009-05-23T18:55:19.501+01:00Clusterflock presents... live from the 19th centuryWe are having a history post frenzy over at Clusterflock today. You should join in!herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-59924418728817384702009-05-23T16:40:00.000+01:002009-05-23T16:41:44.875+01:00An afternoon in George's Arcade, Dublinherecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-77480225639788247072009-05-22T17:23:00.003+01:002009-05-22T17:27:32.847+01:00Nora, the amateurAmateur: lover of. One who does it for the love of the thing, the passion, the rapture of the moment. This is Nora. The following two videos are likely to make you cry if you're sensitive to this kind of thing.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-14353409657842748212009-05-17T13:37:00.002+01:002009-05-17T13:49:51.620+01:00Eek! We ate Grandad!So we were supposed to be the smart, cool ones, right? New theories circulating in fossil circles suggest that we hunted, killed, ate, and made jewelry out of the Neanderthals.Now the leader of the research team says he believes the flesh had been eaten by humans, while its teeth may have been used to make a necklace.For added colour to the evolution topic, see also here and here.I bet there was herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-91219620744363591112009-05-16T15:36:00.004+01:002009-05-16T15:38:23.951+01:00And here is a photo of the name of the streetI used to walk down to get to the beach, when I lived in Barcelona last year.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-26557342458723594282009-05-16T13:23:00.004+01:002009-05-16T15:38:50.909+01:00Here's a totally boring photo of a beach on a sunny dayand I bet it fills you with longing. Probably moreso if you're in Ireland today, where it is raining, relentlessly, than if you're in Texas, where it is warm/hot already, or New York, where it is heating up, or where this was taken, Barcelona, where the parrots roam wild and free.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-33156984622397508192009-05-15T19:04:00.001+01:002009-05-15T19:08:22.902+01:00Wonder if I could make a silk purse out of it?herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-40086244241804553082009-05-14T16:04:00.001+01:002009-05-14T16:05:49.449+01:00Jumbo puffed pig snoutsThis is one of those things you come across when looking for something else and you've just got to put it somewhere. Show others. Illuminate.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-37748471772107558442009-05-14T15:32:00.005+01:002009-05-14T15:42:05.624+01:00Where's that bloody Chinese Flyin' 'orse, then?Pete n Dud talk about art.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-83163392899332632862009-05-13T13:38:00.002+01:002009-05-13T13:40:39.736+01:00Why do we have no fur?We have had a Scientific Discussion over on Clusterflock, to debate the issue of why it might be, that humans evolved to a state of furlessness.herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-86951850261524686672009-05-12T11:26:00.001+01:002009-05-12T11:26:01.013+01:00So you think banks are out of touch, eh?Bank advice, in queue. I'm guessing the answer is... fuck no! Just leave it all up to my bank!herecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902416004339462656.post-48878964457904646642009-05-12T09:41:00.000+01:002009-05-12T09:41:00.667+01:00An intriguing tableauherecomeslucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09461685440392026523noreply@blogger.com0