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Came across Vance Packard's The Waste Makers today. I never realised the idea of 'planned obsolescence' was so old. And I guess we took none of his advice.

Spontaneous combustion in Dublin, Irish Times 12 May 1970. I like that the coroner is called Dr Bofin.

The time Walt Disney arrived at the Irish Folklore Commission proposing a film on leprechauns, and the folklorists tried to divert him towards something more worthy like The Táin (Bríd Mahon, While green grass grows)

Is it churlish of me to be grumpy about news organisations employing their investigative journalists to churn out 'unsolved crimes' podcasts when they could be doing some present-day investigative journalism?

How your email finds me

Sandycove, Co Cork, earlier

My parents aren't big drinkers. Or big thrower-outers.

Excellent gloves on vinted for the stigmata fans. (Calling @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social)

It's a buyers' market when you sell your soul (Jeffrey Foucault)

Tfw you go to clear out some books, and idly flicking through you get 5 new ideas and suddenly these books that haven't been thought of in several years are incredibly important and go back in the dust til the ideas come to fuition or, more likely, to be ignored til the next fit of tidying...

John Bourbon Wasson was not a fan of the Irish accent