Minutes of a Monday #67

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Brain Food > Make McGregor Great Again

“For them, the great attraction of McGregor is not that he will bring some original moves to the task of referring bills to the Supreme Court to test their constitutionality, but that it is literally his job to exude belligerence, making him a figurehead around which the ‘ordinary people’ can gather to take back what is rightfully theirs from the aforesaid elites.

Irish politics, according to these international observers, may sound like a ladybird book written by an actual child - but such simplicities have always been the secret sauce of the far right. Simplest of all is the game of accusing their enemies of doing stuff they do themselves.”

Declan Lynch on democracy in the Internet age.

Soul Food

“We play music for people to dance to, to fall in love to, to groove to, to have a few drinks to, to cry a little over, and to get a little sentimental over.”

The late Shane McGowan on the universal appeal of The Pogues

LOL

Fairytale of New York like you’ve never seen or heard it before:

Appendix

“I didn’t worry a lot about whether I was preparing enough for the part,” he told the New York Times after making Love Story. “I’m not into study and research much. I just thought about it as a story about a man and a woman, and I made sure I looked right. You know, the right scarf, the right sweater.”

Actor Ryan O’Neal on his preparation for his leading role in Love Story. He never took acting classes, but received an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of a Harvard law student who gives up his fortune to marry a working-class Italian girl. He died on December 8th.

AOB

Thank you for reading and mind how you go out there - Niall