Monday Monster Movie – Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla
Once there was a simple, ordinary story of a simple, ordinary monster called Godzilla. This simple story explored, in a simple way, how a simple monster could simply attack a…
Category: collapse of complex societies
All September’s #ExtinctinIreland posts in one handy page
As demanded by absolutely no-one, here are all the posts I have done this month on species extinct in Ireland since the coming of humanity…. Extinct in Ireland: September 1st,…
“The Blind Leading The Blind”, Sebastiaen Vrancx
The Blind Leading The Blind Sebastiaen Vrancx c. 1620, Private Collection
Most pompous Irish ads
There seems to be a specific subgenre of Irish ad that goes for the insufferably pompous approach. I am a little wary of giving these brands more exposure via this…
Nithin Coca – “How I Fully Quit Google”
Could you stop using Google products? Completely? Not just Google Search, but Gmail, Calendar, and all the rest of their stable of products and services. Nithin Coca has done just…
“Green Fire – Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic For Our Time”
Aldo Leopold died of a heart attack while battling a fire on a neighbour’s property on April 21, 1948. He is one of those literary figures better known and much…
Scott Walker, “Little Things (That Keep Us Together)”
Every so often a song floats into your consciousness from somewhere or other. I am not sure why, but yesterday Scott Walker’s driving, rhythmic “Little Things (That Keep Us Together)”…
Dorothy L Sayers on Dante’s Inferno as a portrait of social collapse
From Introductory Dante Papers, Dorothy L Sayers: That the Inferno is a picture of human society in a state of sin and corruption, everybody will readily agree. And since we…
Séamus Sweeney 