Visionary Farts Exhibit

May 6th 2018 Jackson and I went to Baltimore for the day. The highlight was checking out the Fart Exhibit on the lower floor of the Visionary Art Museum. The fart machine wasn't working but Jax more than made up for it.

Eire

Bono and Gavin Friday "In the Name of the Father:

Seamus Egan "Fermoy Lasses"

The Pogues with Cait O'Riordan "Haunted"

The Commitments "Destination Anywhere"

Beyond the Pale "Tiarna De"

Victor Young "The Isle of Innisfree"

Flogging Molly "Salty Dog"

The Cranberries "Ridiculous Thoughts"

Tommy Makem "The Parting Glass"

Mychael & Jeff Danna "The Blood of Cuchulain"

Bob Geldof "The Great Song of Indifference"

The Dubliners "Whisky in the Jar"

The Irish Rovers "Danny Boy"

Van Morrison "Someone Like You"

U2 "Angel of Harlem"

Sinead O'Connor "You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart"

Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays"

Mary Black "Columbus"

The Pogues "Summer in Siam"

The Dropkick Murphies "Good Rats"

22 October 2004

St. Paddy's Day at the Double K!

The Lep is super scary this year but the other donuts are totes adorbs!

The Northern Irish Countryside

It feels so long ago that I was last in Ireland. In 2019 Xavier and I took the train up to Belfast, a first for both of us. I didn't go too crazy with taking photos around the city but here's one I snapped on the train that I quite like.

From Jax

Then tonight I went over and he met me at the door with his hands behind his back. I thought it would be an old postcard or sticker or something antique-y. Then he showed me a Mario Bros. star magnet!! He told me it cost five bucks and when I asked him if he wanted me to pay him back he said no. Then he said he got a Yoda one for himself. I came home and it has made a lovely addition to my already crowded fridge!

They had seven children...

...and decided this was enough. One day after mass, she arrived home and told her husband that the priest said no one of childbearing age should stop having children. Sometime later she had another. Both she and the child died during the birth. They were buried together.

Wicklow Day

Saturday 22 April 2017

54° and a bit overcast

up at 4ish - can't sleep from nervousness - FaceTime with Bella at 6am but she convinces me to not cancel the car rental for Wicklow - asleep again at 7 - alarm off at 8am - up - get ready - call Express Taxi at 8:50 - get Mick (I book a cab for as soon as possible) who says "consider it done, m'darlin'!" Derek Bradshaw arrives at 9:20ish - so nice and gives us M50 directions for Wicklow and tells me "you'll be grand" - €20ish plus tip → €30 ♥ - arrive to Budget Rental at DUB 9:45ish - get a Skoda Rapid in Espresso with one hubcap missing (so trashy) at B52 parking spot - (sidebar: Bella is ready to play navigator with the Sat Nav as her map)

leave 11ish - drive is smooth but Sat Nav fucks us up when in the park - ugh cyclists! - find Glendalough parky lot for €4 - visitor's centre to peepod - (sidebar: see a Dad trying to capture the perfect picture of his child) - St. Kevin's 12:30 - Glendalough - see the 2 women who were at Budget!

take the Boardwalk 1.6km path past the Lower Lake (at 12:50) to Upper Lake visitor centre - get chips and 7Up - peepod - walk to Upper Lake at 1:35 - take photos - see (German?) kids skipping stones like full-on pros

walk back - get vanilla custard cones and sit on rocks/boulders at entrance to Green Road path - give directions to lovely Middle Eastern woman and family - go peepod again - Green Road Path - discuss porn and its effects on men's expectations and how women have to look a certain way (to be and feel desired) - on the path see 2 yellow labs race around and clean mud off in the lake - reach the car by 2:45

drive to Malahide - arrive 4:45 - peepod - pix of the Castle at 5pm - get dinner at the Food Hall - eat in the car at 5:30ish - head back to Budget - stop for petrol (Googled how to open Petrol tank) - total €8.83 - Budget by 6:30ish - beautiful blonde Irish lass with glasses takes the car - kept hitting the lock button (on the key fob) and couldn't figure out how to open it then pressed the Skoda thing - peepod - cab 6:40ish - not very good driver (Vural Azab) - came to €21ish - gave him €25 - SLP 7pm - chill - Bella's laundry - FaceTime with Mum 7:35-8pm - Bondi Rescue (Rerun! Rat/Brazil surfer back issue/Black Cloud vs. Matt Dee/Cora the Songstress) - Doc Martin S1D1 Ep 4 & 5 - massage eachother's feet - bed 10-10:30ish