Niall Glynn

Black-and-white aerial photo of Montreal’s Expo ’67 geodesic dome (the former United States pavilion) burning, with flames licking the top of the lattice sphere and a massive column of thick black smoke drifting across the sky above the fairgrounds and surrounding trees. Printed caption reads: “(MTL) MONTREAL, May 21—GEODESIC DOME UP IN FLAMES—The former United States pavilion at the Expo ’67 site on Ste. Helenes Island in Montreal goes up in flames in this spectacular view Thursday taken only minutes after fire began. Photographer Doug Lehman happened to be taking aerial photos when fire broke destroying the geodesic dome in only 10 minutes. (CP/Wire photo)1976(lehman-gazflm)cxhl020ceast– montreal out —SEB WIRE STORY—”

Collage of book covers matching the text of this post. • Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton • The Lost World by Michael Crichton • The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester • How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner • Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke • The Empty Space by M. John Harrison • The Last Starship from Earth by John Boyd • Butter by Asako Yuzuki • Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky • The Volga Rises in Europe by Curzio Malaparte • The Supreme Court by Ruadhán Mac Cormaic • Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey • The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar • Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks • Human Acts by Han Kang • The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell • Press Reset by Jason Schreier • Dr Thorne by Anthony Trollope • When the Clock Broke by John Ganz • Orbital by Samantha Harvey • The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy • The Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze • The Forge of God by Greg Bear • The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë • In Ascension by Martin MacInnes • A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles • We Don’t Know Ourselves by Fintan O’Toole • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick • The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden • I Am Legend by Richard Matheson • The Star Fraction by Ken MacLeod • Abaddon’s Gate by James S. A. Corey • The Heather Blazing by Colm Tóibín • Is Ireland Neutral? by Conor Gallagher • The Ionian Mission by Patrick O’Brian

Books I read in 2025!

This came up again in conversation, am I mad or do these seem like ludicrously high default suggested spending limits?

@sandertordoir.bsky.social where is the passage in the first post from?

Jaysis he’s some man to still be putting out the albums!

Though I see Achebe in there too so perhaps I’m missing something?

You could safely cut Joyce from your British fiction class anyway.

‘Poor Mexico - so far from god, and so close to the United States’

What about Vincent Browne? I think he'd be a nice change in the #Aras25, he has tons of experience, charm, wit and personality and shur I have the badges already #vinb

> It's a thriving subgenre in literature

Recommendations please!

AMKNOB-1 - first pharaoh of Dublin.

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com devil on my shoulder: go ahead, try and shred a semi-soft cheese with a julienne peeler! nothing bad will happen! ah ha ha ha ha! angel on my other shoulder: there's no real ethical or moral angle to this one but i would still advise against it August 7, 2023 at 4:37 PM

Must have been some mad display, I’m 6km away and it was loud even from indoors.

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I was just asking myself the same question - sounded too deep to be fireworks!

You’re a founding member of my “funny hoors” list which migrated from Twitter and continues to deliver over here.

Notification from Spotify saying “New album coming soon. Elvis Presley started the countdown on Spotify. Pre-save now.” I told you he was alive.

I *knew* it!

God yes - in my dreams I drive a Ford Taurus down a rain-slicked road overhung by towering evergreens, drinking black filter coffee in diners and sleeping in roadside motels.

I’d love some recommendations if any specifics come to mind? I’m thinking along the lines of Ballard but maybe there are others that would be interesting to take on.

I think I speak for all your Irish followers when I thank you for your dual-function apology.

Mate (drink) - Wikipedia

It’s great stuff en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_(d... - I spent a few months in Argentina - it’s omnipresent there.

*Latin speech intensifies*

Subtitle text from the RTE player of the new pope’s speech - it reads: (Speaks Latin) (Speaks Latin)

Nice work RTÉ Player…

This is like if Starship Troopers was set in the Idiocracy universe.

I rummaged out the paper to start Saturday’s crossword only to be interrupted by an ad for www.purcellauctioneers.ie/catalogue/74... and now I’m staring bankruptcy in the face.

Not to defend them (because I wouldn’t buy one if you paid me - and am the happy owner of an EV from a different manufacturer) the monthly data often looks like this as some months they don’t have a ship come with deliveries. Might not be the case here - but I suspect it is.

Undulating layers of rock in a cliff face with the sea in the background.

A path leads up a frosty hill, at the top is a Martello tower.

Layers of rock in front of a beach with the sea in the background.

Sand with a layer of textured rock above.

Out for a winter walk today.

I just spent 30 minutes experiencing the same practice under a cold and slightly hazy sky in Dublin.

And that’s it! It was a bit of an atypical year’s reading for me - very sci-fi heavy which is something of a return to youth for me. I really liked pairing things up, I’ve a feeling I’m going to more consciously do this in 2025 to see where it takes me.

The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

Been meaning to read for a while but had it queued behind The Ambassadors, it got mentioned a few times in A Thread of Violence so I said feck it I’d go ahead (bonus points for potentially queuing up a series). Unsettling and tense read which I enjoyed.