Category Archives: ireland

Zroom Ferrari Zroom

May 24, 2016 – 12:18 am

My mother deteriorated rapidly in her bed at MGH. She was in the final stages of her battle with cancer. It was not a pretty fight, but her beauty remained intact to the end. On Christmas Eve my mother held my hand and said, “I’m so happy I made Christmas.” “Me too.” I thought about […]

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JUMP AROUND / House Of Pain

March 17, 2016 – 10:10 am

It’s that time of year again. One question I wanted to ask the parade marshal of New York. Why don’t the Fife and Drum bands play this Irish hip-hop hit?

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Up the Ra – Rubber Bandits

August 14, 2015 – 9:43 pm

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children – Bobby Sands To see Up the Ra – Rubber Bandits, please go to this URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBT4ZWy6Lm4

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3Is And A Genie

March 17, 2015 – 8:50 pm

An Israeli, an Iranian, and an Irishman are lost in the desert. They discover a brass lamp in the sand. The Israeli rubs it and frees a grateful genie, who will grant a wish to each of them. The Israeli insists on going first and demands a wall 100 feet high around all of Biblical […]

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Let There Be Internet

November 1, 2012 – 8:37 pm

The last two days the internet was cut to the Fort Greene Observatory. Service was restored this evening, but every gas station in the city is without gas. One of my neighbors is trying to drive fourteen miles to New Jersey. His gas meter says that the tank holds eighteen miles of petrol. I wished […]

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