by Grania
It’s Enya’s birthday today so here’s one of her earliest breakthrough hits.
Before she went solo she sang with traditional Irish band Clannad.
It’s also the anniversary of the 1974 Troubles where 33 civilians were killed and 300 injured when the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) detonated four car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan, Republic of Ireland. In happier news, in 2004 the first legal same-sex marriages in the U.S. were performed in Massachusetts.
On Twitter today:
The Flying Spaghetti Monster has really let himself go.
https://twitter.com/41Strange/status/996898876677242880
Gratuitous misuse of the cat.
Their last recorded words were, "Wouldn't Kitty look CUTE in a nightgown?" pic.twitter.com/tk2O5nKfrX
— Undine (@HorribleSanity) May 16, 2018
Save this. You will need it one day. You’re welcome.
This panel speaks to me on so many levels. pic.twitter.com/8KCNtNKwst
— Paul Tobin (@PaulTobin) May 16, 2018
and now for a calming scoop of shoop pic.twitter.com/dOZtX9eefi
— Ruth Nic Hata Risteard (@RuthieFizz) May 16, 2018
Apparently there is such a thing as a ninja diet
Various accounts describe how ninjas, sometimes referred to as shinobi, avoided smelly foods (to better sneak up on enemies), restricted their diet to remain agile, or even used food to send secret messages. https://t.co/JR2LDzCrDt
— Atlas Obscura (@atlasobscura) May 16, 2018
Sigh. Good grief, people. The audio clip says Laurel and Yanni at the same time. Get a set of decent headphones.
Laurel pic.twitter.com/AIau1VNyA2
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) May 16, 2018
Onto the doings of a certain Polish felid.
Hili: What is a seagull doing on a sports field?
A: If it isn’t playing ball it’s probably looking for worms.
In Polish:
Hili: Co robi mewa na boisku?
Ja: Jeśli nie gra w piłkę, to pewnie szuka robaków.
Pseudo-deity shaming!
Enya is always unmistakeable. Probably my favourite is ‘Only Time’ – I like the leisurely pacing of the plucked strings setting the beat and the slow melody.
Here it is with a nice montage of photos from space (probably the ISS?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fuRWL82Ki0
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“Book of Days” is my favorite.
Enya’s Orinocco Flow will forever to me be the “save the whales” song. I was convinced that that was what she was singing.
I heard it as shave a whale
I can’t hear Orinoco Flow without thinking of the Halloween rafting episode from Moone Boy.
I have very high quality Bose headphones and still only heard “Laurel.”
Kurt Vonnegut on Laurel and Hardy:
“I used to laugh my head off at Laurel and Hardy. There is terrible tragedy there somehow. These men are too sweet to survive in this world and are in terrible danger all the time. They could so easily be killed.”
But what he would have thought of Laurel and Yanni?
May the big misunderstood green guy in all of us find happiness somewhere, away from the dumb places.