Bookbinding

Binding Books

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Disappearing Acts

Soil

seed on path = 'I don't want to hear it'
seed on shallow soil = 'I don't want to think about it'
seed on rocky ground = 'I don't want to get hurt'
Good soil receives without any qualms

Conor is under The Plough with a furrowed brow.
He is talking to ether.
He is trying to join dots in the night sky.
He is struggling to make ends meet.

Conor doesn't know what's wrong with him...

the day the music died and the King of Pop popped his clogs..

Conor was driving home when he heard rumours that Michael Jackson had passed away.
It was 11pm.

It was at 11am, a mere 12hrs later that HMV Liffey Valley celebrated the death of a pop icon with a stand of CD's strategically positioned at the entrance.

So the fans mourned and sales increased.

Supply+Demand

fields empty on both sides of the motorway.

Conor watched lorries hurtle across Co Meath.
He overtook a Tesco lorry.
(Which left him worried)

With fields empty what would he eat if the lorry was empty?
And what would happen when the oil wells where empty?

He would have an empty tummy.

Speckled Things in Cooley

Conor saw a dented-headed-speckled-brown-bird on top of the hawthorn with pretty melody.
He saw a fast flying boomerang butterfly on lavender.

Mini Helicopters

A dragonfly on the Mill Road looks like a helicopter.
Conor's father on the moss cutting turf.
Sea King of the West Pier hacking blades in air.
Gazelle hovering over West Belfast.
Wessex landing in Eagleson's Field.

Quiet Time

Conor sat in the dentist chair under threat from machines.He became aware all things decay and the best we can do is slap a sticky filling on that decay. All die,the rich merchant and the pauper.

'Do you realise that everyone you know will die?'

Wobbly Coffee Table No1

Devlin Bar, City North Hotel,Drogheda.
En route to Newry.

Mouldy/Goodness?- elderflower champagne

Conor went among the hedges and gathered a bag of elderflowers.
This was the June to make elderflower champagne - 15litres he bottled and stowed away in the spare room.
As time progressed he noticed a swirling mass of seaweed/mould/lemon/pollen/sugar/? in all the bottles.
Conor was confused.
'Is this the way this stuff is meant to look?It has bubbles alright, and it looks the colours and smells OK but is that mould or the natural organic goodness of the hedgerow?'

Conor wanted to share his gift of grace with his friends but he aso did not want to poison his friends with his earthly bounty.

He would probably be safer just making tea for his friends...

Bureaucrap

'Life is what you make it-you get out what you put in'
So stop whinging about how the system treats you and sup it up boy.If you don't want the job there are thousands of others who would

Tesco Clubcard

Conor signed up for a Tesco Clubcard.
Now they know where he lives, what he eats, what offers he goes for, what his credit is like.
And they are targeting him with laser-guided-cruise-special-offers

It'sDunn Humby the spy keeping his beady eye on Conor. This is what Dunn does.

Google Earth

gatekeepers of cyberspace
dominance in online
conquer domains
fighting empire
information-gathering machine
drilling the mental space
masters of info
profits
'Don't be evil'

Power of Babel

ask questions
help it help you
'What job should I do tomorrow?'
'What shall I take?'
Google doesn't need to know...

Michigan & John Spillane

Flint
Ypsilanti Tahquamenon Falls
Muskegon

Conor knows why he likes Sufjan-he takes place seriously.

And John Spillane in an Irish Times interview says
'if you write a song about the world,nobody will relate to it.If you write about your own village,the whole world will relate to it'

Upon Buying Fig Rolls in Tesco

200g
€1.49
50% extra free,
Made by McVities in England vs

200g
€1.89
Jacobs,made in Tallaght,Ireland.

Frugal Conor vs Supporting his Own Team the Irish Conor.

Maybe he should just buy Ginger Nuts

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