Dermott Hayes's Blog: Postcard from a Pigeon, page 39

Dilemma

 

Should I stay or should I go? Max is humming The Clash song, windows shatter and doors pop off their hinges,  as the house collapses around him, but he can’t resist delighting in the plight of his neighbour with whom life is a constant competition. This is  a real dilemma.

Pretend

 

She crawls in through the bathroom window, her parkour skills are finely honed. All she has to do is slip out of her jumpsuit into her cocktail dress and she’s ready to party. ‘Hey, babe, fancy threads. You look like a spy.’ Oh, shit, she thinks, my date, ‘Let’s pretend.’

Knives Are Out – no backstreet brawl

Not content to even let Labour’s party conference pass before restarting their smear campaigns, the anti-Corbyn faction are already at work. The latest manifestation is a revival of the slander of shadow chancellor John McDonnell, claiming he stated that odious ex-Tory Wirral MP Esther McVey should be lynched. This is ‘old news‘ from 2014 and […]

via McDonnell ‘lynching’ smear resurrected – the truth — The SKWAWKBOX Blog

Figure Fiddling, while Britain Burns

This morning I had the privilege to be at the special conference for the announcement of the result of the leadership contest between Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith. As you will know by now, the result was emphatic, with Corbyn gaining a decisive 61.8% share (313,209/506,438/654,006) of the votes in spite of the efforts to […]

via The numbers Labour did NOT want you to see on TV this morning – and why — The SKWAWKBOX Blog

Panic

 

She was sitting on the train when she heard it, the 6.30 bonecrusher, sardines with slippy hands and leaking earphones right in her face, that tune. Now she couldn’t get rid of it, like she’d stepped in dogshit before standing in an elevator. She wanted to scream, what’s its name? Panic.

Social Fretwork – Poetry Reading by Dermott Hayes

At last, Wildsound has a stab at my poem but I can’t help thinking the chap didn’t under stand it…

POETRY FESTIVAL. Submit to site for FREE. Submit for actor performance. Submit poem to be made into film.

Poetry performed by actor Kaleb Alexander

SOCIAL FRETWORK by Dermott Hayes

POETRY 7 questions:

What is the theme of your poem?

Are social networks a paradox?

How would you like people to respond when they read or watch your poetry reading?

When we communicate with cyber friends, does it engender more anxiety and loneliness.

How long have you been writing poetry?

Four years

Do you have a favorite poet?

Alexander Pope

What influenced you to submit to WILDsound and have your poetry performed by a professional actor?

Interesting theme.

Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?

Published three books, a biography, a novel and a collection of short stories. New novel on the way and another collection of short stories. Short film, 1916, Souls of Freedom to be screened at Kerry Film Festival in October. Screenplay, Old Bones has been performed, this month, by Wildsound festival.

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Generous

 

I’ve been here all day, for whatever’s sake, I wasn’t willing to say because then it would be taking sides and then how much business would I lose? No, better stay in the middle ground, do what I  do, even if prices are higher. Who ever heard of being generous?

Sly, the Sloth, busts a move

 

Exertion was not in Sly’s lexicon, indeed, it was an alien concept, to boot. He liked to hang out and move, very slowly. Now, although a vegan,but not choosy, he couldn’t resist the banana leaves left on the trail. So, a skip and a jump, he had them. No-one saw him.

Space art’s star is fading fast

Someone asked me recently why I posted so much ‘space related’ stuff and well, apart from the obvious, because it’s there are it’s fascinating, I think for all those reasons but also because for the past four months I’ve been writing a science fiction novel. But then, I’ve always loved science fiction, whether it be The Creature from the Lost Lagoon, Space Odyssey, Star Wars or Star Trek, what’s not to like and, so far, there are no aliens claiming cultural appropriation.

The one thing that has always fascinated me is how visual artists have envisaged outer space, too.

Space Art Propelled Scientific Exploration of the Cosmos—But Its Star is Fading Fast

The huge, hidden cost to severing the bond between art and science.
by George Pendle
September 20, 2016

The methane river delta on Titan, one of Saturn’s moons, as depicted by space artist Ron Miller. (Photo: Ron Miller)

In a serpentine building that snakes through the Connecticut countryside, a strange meeting took place this past July. A group of four scientists from NASA, including an astronaut, a robotics expert, and the agency’s deputy administrator, conferred with some 30 painters, sculptors and poets. Adding an extra layer of mystery to proceedings was the fact that the meeting was hosted by Grace Farms, a faith-based think-tank created by an evangelical hedge-fund billionaire.

Tea was served. Thomas Pynchon may or may not have been present.

The aim of this odd confluence was to engage an “artistic response” to NASA’s journey to Mars, the space agency’s ambitious goal of putting a human on the red planet’s surface sometime in the 2030s. To help set the mood, NASA brought some zappy toys to share—a Hololens headset that offered an augmented reality view of Mars, as well as surreal images of winds carving the Martian surface. According to those present, scientists spoke of the necessity of having “an outpost” on Mars to help solve the many riddles of the galaxy. The question they were asking the assembled artists was whether they could help communicate this vision to the public as part of a new program entitled “Arts + Mars”.

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Trial & Travesty

Editor’s note – If what is going on the children’s court in relation to the Jobstown Protest is a show-trial, it seems what Seanie Fitzpatrick is getting from our crooked state is a fake trial – with a Jury stocked exclusively by people who have no problem with the austerity caused by the actions of him […]

via Juror 791 on her exclusion from the fake trial of Seanie Fitz — The Bogman’s Cannon