Literary Weather 5 Conrad Forecast
It may be 48 hours ago but we are sure many of you are on our unique weather clock and will be happy to avail of retro weather forecasting. Featuring unique new score composed by the talented string maestro Nerf555
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Rhotic Ding
Tá mé mór pian i mo aghaidh
An bhfuil tú ag éisteacht liom Ding?
Is é mo fiacail iarraidh cead mo guma coganta
An léann tú dom Ding?
Ba chóir dom a rugadh gan jaws
toisc go mbeadh an doras scioból a oireann níos fearr dom.
An bhfuil tú ann Ding?
Fáinne an clog!
Cnoc Mhuire ag an doras mo cailín
Rhotic: Paul Brady Matthew Barney
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Tooth root length
“there are evidences that both of the sex chromosomes are expressed in tooth root growth.”
I’d like to officially assert, based on the exasperation my dentist expressed at the length of them, that the roots of my teeth are male. I’d like to request access to male changing rooms at the swimming pool or other male institutions (priesthood perhaps) in view of this development.
I’d like to express my deepest sympathy to anyone with a pain in their face at present. Teeth are peculiar entities when they decide they’re no longer willing to co-habit with one’s gums in their present form and demand cement at inconvenient hours of the night when no dentist is open.
low on fodder
Harvest whatever is possible by leaving out the wetter areas of a field;
Leave large headlands uncut to take machinery;
Drive machinery smoothly and avoid sharp turning;
Open new gaps and gateways to fields;
Don’t fill trailers fully and haul bales to the wrapper at the storage area so that there are fewer machines in the field;
Large, low-pressure tyres on harvesting machinery are a big advantage in wet conditions.
Ag fanacht ar an chroi
Mé a dúirt sé roimh anseo agus beidh mé a rá aris sé: chroi agus máinliacht ciallóidh leor rud beag dúinn.
Dá bhrí sin nuair a feicim an líne tosaigh RTÉ ar Leanaí Cromghlinn Ospidéal agus éisteacht leis na máithreacha cur síos á iompú ar ais ar na doirse cruach dhosmálta Tá mo chroí féin briste dóibh mar a fhios agam cad é a fháil tríd an doras agus a aghaidh leat. Chun dul ar ais, tá a fhios agam do leanbh croí i dtrioblóid é thar contemplation Is é an croí i bhfolach faoi bhun a imbhalla an craiceann, ní tá sé ina cos is féidir leat a fheiceáil, ní sé cnapshuim is féidir le páiste go pointe. Tá sé seo ag caidéalú amach nó nach bhfuil ag caidéalú agus is féidir leat féachaint go simplí ar do leanbh sweat agus streachailt nó a bhfuil aon symptom sofheicthe agus imní ort go simplí, imní, imní. Níl tú beo imní ort.
Ba chóir aon leanbh go fóill. Tá sé go simplí. Uimh leanbh ba chóir go fóill toisc nach féidir aon tuismitheoir go fóill.
En attendant la coeur
I’ve said it before here and I’ll say it encore: hearts and surgery mean quite a little something to us. I know what it is to be told your child urgently needs surgery and that he’ll be getting it on Tuesday morning bring him in @ 6am, don’t feed him and how hard it is not to feed a small baby whose relying on you for his food. I know what it is to take a baby into a stainless steel operating theatre and see the big careful hand try to put the huge looking needle thing into this vein to knock him out, I know what it is to watch them struggle and fail and clamp a mask on instead to knock him out while his fortunately and usually for a heart baby pudgy legs flail and I know what it is to leave him behind for those careful hands to repair his dodgy heart. Then you pace 5 and a half hours with no idea whether your child will be living or otherwise.
Thus when I watch this RTE Frontline on Crumlin Children’s Hospital and listen to those mothers describing being turned back at the stainless steel doors my own heart is smashed for them because I know what it is to get through that door and what you face. To turn back, knowing your child has a heart in trouble is beyond contemplation The heart is hidden beneath a curtain of skin, it’s not a leg you can see, it’s not a lump a child can point to. It’s pumping away or not pumping and you can simply watch your child sweat and struggle or have no visible symptom and you simply worry, worry, worry. You don’t live you worry.
No child should wait. It’s that simple. No child should wait because no parent can wait.
http://www.rte.ie/news/thefrontline/
Hearts, lungs and minds — excerpt from sound artist John Wynn’s affecting documentary.
Longer excerpt from Hearts, Lungs and minds plus other curious sound work here.
Recent articles
Way behind with uploading articles so have to fling a few up here til I update the decayed sideboard of higgledy piggledy display of my articles/reviews.
Globe and Mail: Buried Treasure essay on Helen Potrebenko’s unique and important 1975 novel Taxi!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/books/reader-hail-that-cab/article1229986/
Please come and join the Taxi! resurrgence @ haveyoureadtaxi.blogspot.com Buy the book, read the book, send a copy of a pic of your feet to haveyoureadtaxi@gmail.com Send your thoughts and exhalations on Taxi!
Globe and Mail review James Kelman Kieron Smith boy
Globe and Mail review Kathleen Norris Acedia & Me should be knocking about somewhere on line, but can’t find it this instant. Will upload if it fails to google itself up.
I have about 5 other hybrid style articles mostly on children and reading type topics that are easily found on google with a search.Will round them up when I have a second. They cover junior graphic novels, late summer reading suggestions for children and more.
Literary Weather Forecast David Foster Wallace
The forecast number 4 Oct 7th 2009 featuring Nerf 555 live music on violin — bella. DFW extract from his essay on Tennis and Public Enemy exit music.
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