Kevin McGee
@jigtime.bsky.social
Dublin. Writer, drummer, fumbler at a tenor banjo.
After extensive consultation we have winnowed the potential names of our new party down to two excellent options.
1. I Shit Myself and Sit In It.
2. Party McPartface.
One quick poll and the revolution can begin!
1. I Shit Myself and Sit In It.
2. Party McPartface.
One quick poll and the revolution can begin!
November 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
After extensive consultation we have winnowed the potential names of our new party down to two excellent options.
1. I Shit Myself and Sit In It.
2. Party McPartface.
One quick poll and the revolution can begin!
1. I Shit Myself and Sit In It.
2. Party McPartface.
One quick poll and the revolution can begin!
Let’s hope it’s followed by an Isaiah of landlords: “Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more room..." www.rte.ie/news/analysi...
Early blow for rent reforms by exodus of small landlords
The Government's rental reforms have been dealt an early blow by news this week of an exodus of small landlords, writes Sandra Hurley.
www.rte.ie
November 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Let’s hope it’s followed by an Isaiah of landlords: “Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more room..." www.rte.ie/news/analysi...
“Practice to the point where a fuck up won’t derail you“ in particular strikes me as life-changingly good advice. As for 3, at least invest in some cheap disposable mic covers.
Pro Music Tips:
1. Stop worrying people won’t like your music. If you bring it, the right fans will find you.
2. You WILL fuck up on stage, so instead of stressing about it, practice to the point where a fuck up won’t derail you.
3. Buy your own vocal mic. Microphones at venues are disgusting.🤮
1. Stop worrying people won’t like your music. If you bring it, the right fans will find you.
2. You WILL fuck up on stage, so instead of stressing about it, practice to the point where a fuck up won’t derail you.
3. Buy your own vocal mic. Microphones at venues are disgusting.🤮
November 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
“Practice to the point where a fuck up won’t derail you“ in particular strikes me as life-changingly good advice. As for 3, at least invest in some cheap disposable mic covers.
Somebody check on Alan Ayckbourn.
November 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Somebody check on Alan Ayckbourn.
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It's just a man failing to reappear, that's all—now you see him, now you don't, that the only thing that's real: here one minute and gone the next and never coming back—an exit, unobtrusive and unannounced, a disappearance gathering weight as it goes on, until, finally, it is heavy with death.
November 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
It's just a man failing to reappear, that's all—now you see him, now you don't, that the only thing that's real: here one minute and gone the next and never coming back—an exit, unobtrusive and unannounced, a disappearance gathering weight as it goes on, until, finally, it is heavy with death.
What’s your favourite Christmas album? Mine is an odd one, I think. A folk-rock band puts electricity to one side and explores their Irish and British heritage. It is a Christmas album by any measure, but it also works as a kind of pagan solstice celebration. #Horslips #ChristmasAlbum
November 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
What’s your favourite Christmas album? Mine is an odd one, I think. A folk-rock band puts electricity to one side and explores their Irish and British heritage. It is a Christmas album by any measure, but it also works as a kind of pagan solstice celebration. #Horslips #ChristmasAlbum
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Ireland needs a state construction company. It won't solve our problems on its own, but it's part of the solution.
I firmly believe the government are refusing to establish one because it will take more time to establish than they have left as leaders. #spéirgorm
I firmly believe the government are refusing to establish one because it will take more time to establish than they have left as leaders. #spéirgorm
November 29, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Ireland needs a state construction company. It won't solve our problems on its own, but it's part of the solution.
I firmly believe the government are refusing to establish one because it will take more time to establish than they have left as leaders. #spéirgorm
I firmly believe the government are refusing to establish one because it will take more time to establish than they have left as leaders. #spéirgorm
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This is why I'm *mildly* annoyed with Mark Kelly et al. We have a very specific set of illegal orders that we should definitely be telling our service members to refuse and they left it at "if it feels wrong, start playing jazz with the chain of command"
It would have been more effective to say it!
It would have been more effective to say it!
So I'm pretty sure a three star knows that an order to strike alleged combatants who are hors de combat is facially illegal, in case anyone's still having any hangups on whether Bradley needs to be in the dock after this
November 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This is why I'm *mildly* annoyed with Mark Kelly et al. We have a very specific set of illegal orders that we should definitely be telling our service members to refuse and they left it at "if it feels wrong, start playing jazz with the chain of command"
It would have been more effective to say it!
It would have been more effective to say it!
If this had happened overnight, housing these people would be the country’s only priority. Why is it less urgent just because it was slow?
16,766 without a home
This is f*cking scandalous
A result of shameful government policy with empty homes everywhere
Me & @judesherry.bsky.social updated the numbers on our dereliction billboard yesterday with music by Meryl Streek
Lower John St, Cork City
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis #SpeirGorm
This is f*cking scandalous
A result of shameful government policy with empty homes everywhere
Me & @judesherry.bsky.social updated the numbers on our dereliction billboard yesterday with music by Meryl Streek
Lower John St, Cork City
#DerelictIreland #HousingCrisis #SpeirGorm
November 29, 2025 at 8:52 AM
If this had happened overnight, housing these people would be the country’s only priority. Why is it less urgent just because it was slow?
I’m astonished that bands and venues haven’t been sued out of this stupidity.
My hot take is you should not be expected/practically required to bring earplugs to a show if you're not going to stand next to a speaker. I'm paying to hear music played live. You have all this tech and you just turn shit up and make it into mush. Great.
November 29, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I’m astonished that bands and venues haven’t been sued out of this stupidity.
English needs a catchy word for what people have decided “oblivious“ should mean.
November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
English needs a catchy word for what people have decided “oblivious“ should mean.
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in the emergency room for a snake bite and they rush in a camel to watch The Notebook
November 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
in the emergency room for a snake bite and they rush in a camel to watch The Notebook
Party tonight at locker 684, Marylebone Station.
Happy 85th Birthday to 🇬🇧British stage, film and television actor and narrator #JohnAlderton born #OnThisDay in Gainsborough, England
November 28, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Party tonight at locker 684, Marylebone Station.
Paul Newman tells a story of eating a Mexican meal with Connery. There is a side dish of insanely hot peppers. Before he can warn him, Connery pops a handful of them - and eats them like candy. Newman’s telling is radiant with the sweetest manly admiration.
November 28, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Paul Newman tells a story of eating a Mexican meal with Connery. There is a side dish of insanely hot peppers. Before he can warn him, Connery pops a handful of them - and eats them like candy. Newman’s telling is radiant with the sweetest manly admiration.
Anyway, my bandmates and I had a movie night with Human Centipede. The guitarist’s girlfriend gave us a beaming smile as she left. She had misregistered the title somehow as Very Happy Caterpillar and thought we were very cute.
November 28, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Anyway, my bandmates and I had a movie night with Human Centipede. The guitarist’s girlfriend gave us a beaming smile as she left. She had misregistered the title somehow as Very Happy Caterpillar and thought we were very cute.
Human Centipede but it’s the Three Stooges.
November 28, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Human Centipede but it’s the Three Stooges.
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RIP Martin Luther, you would have loved Papal Audience Black Friday deals.
November 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
RIP Martin Luther, you would have loved Papal Audience Black Friday deals.
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I've written a novel, Experts in a Dying Field. It's out on Penguin Sandycove in June. It's about about a band and a tragedy & art for art's sake & aging & loss & community & Dublin. There's a fox in it. & sheet music. The beautiful cover's by Jack Smyth. You can preorder: linktr.ee/expertsinady...
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I've written a novel, Experts in a Dying Field. It's out on Penguin Sandycove in June. It's about about a band and a tragedy & art for art's sake & aging & loss & community & Dublin. There's a fox in it. & sheet music. The beautiful cover's by Jack Smyth. You can preorder: linktr.ee/expertsinady...
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Children's books don't get the respect they deserve. This one here has managed to distill the very essence, the very core message of every single Irish novel into one easy text!
November 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Children's books don't get the respect they deserve. This one here has managed to distill the very essence, the very core message of every single Irish novel into one easy text!
I wonder who will win the Oscar in 2029 for playing a conflicted ICE goon.
November 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
I wonder who will win the Oscar in 2029 for playing a conflicted ICE goon.
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I feel I've an article or two for a newspaper or magazine bursting to come out of me about the current landscape for trans people but don't know how to go about pitching it with publications. Anyone know how?
November 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I feel I've an article or two for a newspaper or magazine bursting to come out of me about the current landscape for trans people but don't know how to go about pitching it with publications. Anyone know how?
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I'm teaching a course at the Irish Writers' Centre this spring where we will start out working on basic ideas and try to move them forward to script stage, it was a lot of fun when we did it last year, very happy they have asked me back:
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/grow...
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/grow...
Growing Your Idea: From Thought to Script with Paul Duane - Irish Writers Centre
In-person scriptwriting course at the Irish Writers Centre (Dublin). Turn an idea for a film into a detailed outline or script. Starts Tues 11 March 2025.
irishwriterscentre.ie
November 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I'm teaching a course at the Irish Writers' Centre this spring where we will start out working on basic ideas and try to move them forward to script stage, it was a lot of fun when we did it last year, very happy they have asked me back:
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/grow...
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/grow...
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I love this poem,
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I love this poem,
I oversold On The Town to a couple of friends, got them really enthused, and then had the longest 90 minutes of my life.
What a movie you recommend to people with enthusiasm but find that few people you recommend it to like it as much as you do?
Me: Probably Prometheus, which has its fans but is objectively, fundamentally flawed. Also Pandorum.
(My non-genre tastes are very conventional.)
Me: Probably Prometheus, which has its fans but is objectively, fundamentally flawed. Also Pandorum.
(My non-genre tastes are very conventional.)
November 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I oversold On The Town to a couple of friends, got them really enthused, and then had the longest 90 minutes of my life.
I think they’re not doing this because the natural follow-up is about the sailors currently murdering Venezuelan fishermen, and the Democrats have NO INTENTION of prosecuting them.
Shouldn’t every other elected Democrat be posting videos of them telling military members to refuse illegal orders?
Where TF are they? #TheBriefing
Where TF are they? #TheBriefing
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 AM
I think they’re not doing this because the natural follow-up is about the sailors currently murdering Venezuelan fishermen, and the Democrats have NO INTENTION of prosecuting them.