Hello, world. I’m MacDara Conroy, and this is my blog.

Category: Asides

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I’ve had a shitty day. Otherwise I’d be more excited that Three enabled 5G on my phone #aside

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Cover art of Lankum’s 2023 album False Lankum, featuring the four members of the band in a sepia-toned, partially out-of-focus image above an excerpt of abstract art with the band name and title superimposed above, in a layout reminiscent of Vaughan Oliver’s designs for the 4AD record label in the 1980s and ’90s.

I thought Lankum were releasing a new album, not reissuing their mid-’90s debut on 4AD. #image

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Booking confirmed: a few days in Paris then the train to Cologne for a few more > @MacDara > @MacDara #aside

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#RoyalRumble thoughts: men’s Rumble was meh, lacked action compared to the women’s; the Quasar match, I can’t even; main event was in really poor taste after Tyre Nichols; the rest left no impression > @MacDara #aside

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This Quasar match might be the funniest thing I’ve seen in years #aside

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Television didn’t click with me till I heard ‘Venus’ on Bushie’s radio show a couple of years ago and I was like, “Now I get it.” RIP Tom Verlaine #aside

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What with the snappers haunting the school gates to get a pic of yer man and political hacks circling the wagons around the other one, Irish journalism is looking really bad at the moment #aside

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Love this video for ‘Watch Them Crawl’ by Machiavellian Art, from their album Indoctrination Sounds out next month on Riot Season > @MacDara #video

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John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness starts right now on Sky Sci-Fi, if you’ve got it #aside

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Help, I think I might be ‘person who buys something from a YouTube ad’ years old #aside

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So, how did that Vichy Black Flag show go in Dublin tonight? #aside

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Soundgarden. They also got me into punk, noise rock, etc etc. The best kind of gateway band IMHO > @Allegaeon #aside

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Seven tricolours flying along the road opposite the shops; that’s a worryingly ostentatious display of nationalism, even for Dundalk #aside

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I’ve just seen the news of Van Conner’s death; he was only 55 > YouTube #aside

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Twitter is feckin’ unusable on my phone without Tweetbot. Sad face #aside

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It was my fourth choice (and only offer) on my CAO form; I didn’t get enough points in the Leaving for 1-3. Ended up loving it anyway. And I went on to get a Master’s in what would’ve been my first choice > @otter_weekend #aside

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Planning our first proper holiday in over a decade and it’s bloody stressful! How do you people do it? #aside

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Took them a week to come out with a statement this mealy-mouthed. Why so uncomfortable to call racists racist? > @rtenews #aside

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Making Adam Ragusea’s pickled onions because that’s who we are now #aside

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No ‘before’ photo, alas, as I forgot, but I shaved down my Decembeard tonight. With help from Bee as my shaver wasn’t, er, cutting it #aside

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It’s all well and good to say this, but if you don’t actively police it, it’s just so much hot air. I can guarantee you right now there are multiple vehicles parked on the footpath on my road; I don’t even have to look > @RSAIreland #aside

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