Feinics Rising

Crowd going wild

Here's Michael Flatley singing a Nation once again https://youtu.be/52I-iGDItOs

I'm trying to pick a rebel song to post that talks about cycles or fenians without it being a complete fedpost sounding post

I think it's married to the idea that the old native Laws that spoke about leprechauns and dragons are really speaking to the uncontrollable and wild aspects of ourselves, as we perceive it today. Enlightened or wild. The concept of "the brain" has the connotations of logic, the empirical measurement, the facts. The heart and the soul, though. It's both dark and yet through the Enlightened mind it's also beautiful and spontaneous and whatever other words you associate with printed cardboard notes on February 14th. I think the Irish mindset is still in the Dark Ages, at least subliminally. Modern progressive Dun Laoghaire is the encroaching light from the east. There is something inevitable in all this. It's almost like clockwork. Each time something happens in the Real World, something happens in the land of the good folk. It gets transmutated. As if the caveman had some idea that e=mc², that everything he could touch and see was real, and it could affect everything he couldn't see, or touch, but yet he could also feel.

In Enniskillen apparently the Shopping centre is one such building. The carpark has a height restriction but you can go it a fair bit before the ceiling lowers too much, and it's just some plastic signs hanging from plastic chains that says "height restriction" on them. Meanwhile the entire shopping centre is right along the river Erne on one side, and Tesco/Asda on the other side, so you basically have full field of vision so nobody can sneak up behind. I reckon the north has had a serious rejigging of defence, rather than some actual victory of the "get the British army out of Ireland" mantra. Invisible empire, and they're all trained (in general) to take those positions, secure them, and indefinitely hold them as they expand in any chosen direction. We're in a strange time for many reasons. As tech increases, so does the complexities of economics and even military tactics. On a mythic scale its some type of oroborous, but the average persons memory of long term cycles is severed. I'm on another tangent but it's like the old myths that actually were told around the fires, 1000, 2000 years ago: tales from a time so long past that "who" and "where" give way to the "how and why". How would you explain a cycle of lunar eclipses to someone? If someone gave you a pen and paper and you wanted to tell someone, anyone, in a future time about it. Linguistics let's us translate them to suit other places, but who knows how legible modern Chinese or Russian will be to a Chin or Rus in 500 years time. Anyway.

There's a big multistorey carpark in the Chinese quarter and it always struck me (having grown up along the border), as one of those "it's public infrastructure, but the military would also find it useful" projects, like how some buildings and road overpasses in the north are designed to host military units, if the need arises.

Birmingham: Gooks, Gays, Ghanaians and Goat herders

I'm pretty sure I read something about Hazel Chu being connected to Birmingham Chinatown