culture

beer

Fecking NOOOO!

This cannot be happening! Dublin Guiness Brewery to close? [http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0618/breaking59.htm] My Irish brethren – don’t let this happen! It’s a slight against common decency! What would Dylan Thomas, George Best and Father Jack have said! The local on-tap stuff is

culture

Highbrow and Low-brow quickies.

Some interesting odds and ends picked up today: * British composer, conductor and friend of every brass muso living or dead, Sir Malcolm Arnold [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Arnold] died on the 23rd [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2373141,00.html]. Playing and listening to his works