Letter to America - The Irish Blog Awards
Stand-by Dear Listener for Letter to America - The Irish Blog Awards!
Podcast will be available in just a couple of hours...
UPDATE 1:53am - Oh man...Letter to America is very sleeeepy dear listeners and will have to finish the edit a bit later - the Irish Blog Awards Special will now be uploaded at the latest by Sunday afternoon.
P.S. Wayne and I had a ball - we we're on a total high during the drive back to Belfast - how great was it to meet so many cool people! :-)
UPDATE 4:09pm - Jeez, my first cut of the podcast is 3 hours long - that's right - KING KONG LONG - and drags like a mutha - I have to cut it down so it's not gonna be up till later this evening - apologies 'to you know who.'
UPDATE 11:30pm - Podcast below.
Oh, a Life Full of Love, it's Letter to America - the Irish Blogs Awards Special!
In which the Playaz try to help us out, we never get to do the Funky Chicken, Google is hiring, the Ormeau Baths Gallery is still closed, Thom Brown III piles on the heat, we forget to interview Damien Mulley, the Frappr Map begins to fill up, 20 Major sends an envoy, single guys sit together at Jenny Watts, we hamper Old Rotten Hat's attempt to pull, the Alma Gallery gets mentioned, Wayne's driving skills are awesome, the Planet of the Blogs and Irish Blogs are plugged, the Culturesluts are left on the cutting room floor but will return in another show, Sinead Gleeson shows she's a pro, Marcus Valentine sings, That Girl is looking for a man who breathes, Ginger Pixel is gracious regarding the Camera Incident and gives props to Rymus, Fiona de Londras kicks ass and we commiserate with Fustar.
All this and more on Letter to America - your Irish Northern Irish "Aine We Love You" Podcast.
Hurry up I can't wait !!!!
Posted by: Brendan | March 11, 2006 at 07:40 PM
Team fústar is back home and waiting for Letter to America, the blog awards podcast, to go live. We have much drink on board and are getting antsy. Jett and Wayne, you guys totally rocked out wyco. Say hi to Aine for us.
Posted by: copernicus | March 11, 2006 at 10:13 PM
Jett and Wayne,
Great fun to meet the pair of you last night and we wait, with baited breath, for the podcast. I have an interesting picture of me looking like a midget standing between the two of you which I'll make available soon.
More later...
Posted by: fústar | March 12, 2006 at 07:17 AM
Hey guys - it was so great to meet you. I await podcst with both excitement and trepidation ;)
And you should have won a prize for the most dapper chap in the place :D:D:D
Posted by: Fiona | March 12, 2006 at 09:02 AM
Unforunately I didnt get chatting to you last night, but we do live in the same city...
Posted by: Phil | March 12, 2006 at 09:41 AM
I smell another lawsuit.
Posted by: Phil | March 12, 2006 at 09:46 AM
Hi Phil - would have been nice to have met you, (and actually I told Wayne that you were one of the people I was sorry not to hook up with), but hey I didn't know whatcha looked like. What's your excuse? ;-)
P.S. You were my personal fav. of the contenders for best Photo blog - so keep up the good work!
Posted by: Jett Loe | March 12, 2006 at 09:48 AM
Great to meet you guys last night.
Jett, if you ever do your stand-up act again in Dublin, let me know.
Posted by: Sinéad | March 12, 2006 at 12:05 PM
So the podcast right now is not much different from the Oscars?
Posted by: Phil | March 12, 2006 at 01:08 PM
you & wayne are a lot taller than I expected
Posted by: Fixer | March 12, 2006 at 01:44 PM
Jett's shorter than me, Fixer. (Just wanted to point that out....)
Posted by: Wayne Ordinary American | March 12, 2006 at 02:12 PM
podcasting must take away a few inches
Posted by: Fixer | March 12, 2006 at 03:09 PM
Was great to meet you guys last night. Comiserations on not winning but I look forward to hearing mention of the funky chicken dance in your podcast!
Posted by: Karen | March 12, 2006 at 04:05 PM
Karen - I would have done it you know! :-)
Posted by: Jett Loe | March 12, 2006 at 06:33 PM
Dudes:
http://homepage.eircom.net/~billythesquid/Sligozone1.jpg
http://homepage.eircom.net/~billythesquid/Sligozone2.jpg
Posted by: Damien Mulley | March 12, 2006 at 06:38 PM
Damien - WOW! Thanks for the links - she's a hell of a woman.
Posted by: Jett Loe | March 12, 2006 at 06:45 PM
More here: http://www.mulley.net/2006/03/12/aine-was-in-the-papers-today/
I'm with you on this one!
Posted by: Damien Mulley | March 12, 2006 at 06:49 PM
Jett,
Home again and am busy downloading the show right now, even though I can barely keep my eyes open. That's hardcore!
Just posted my thoughts on the night myself...probably gibberish as I'm too tired to think straight...
Posted by: fústar | March 12, 2006 at 08:36 PM
Just read your comments on Fustar - thanks as always for the shout-out. Would have loved to attended the post-ceremony drink fest but as you rightly point out the podcast had to come first. I had hours of material to cut down - maybe someday I'll release a 'director's cut' with more of the Gorilla and Marlon Brando.
Posted by: Jett Loe | March 12, 2006 at 08:39 PM
Just finished listening Jett & Wayne. Superb stuff...though I'm not sure my mother will appreciate me using the word 'cunt' in a podcast...
Thoroughly enjoyable throughout. Happy 6 month anniversary.
Posted by: fústar | March 12, 2006 at 09:54 PM
Jett... Really wish I'd talked to you on Sat night! I've just subscribed, your show is great...I'm so Impressed! It's Ricky Gervais vs Des Bishop!
Posted by: Robin Blandford | March 13, 2006 at 11:27 AM
Re: Wayne's Google story - www.belfoss.org is the easiest-to-type URL to find out about the free conference. The Belfast Telegraph merged two press stories in an artistic creation that would perhaps be more at home in the Ormeau Baths Gallery rather than a newspaper!
(i) an Opensource conference in Belfast, which has been organised for several months, but which Google have decided to help sponsor.
(ii) Google expanding jobs at their European HQ in Dublin.
If Google think they'll recruit a lot of people at a conference in Belfast, they better bring a lot of high quality free pens and thermal mugs to give away! (I'm still using my Nortel mug from a careers fair held 12 year's ago!)
Posted by: Alan | March 13, 2006 at 02:41 PM
Good show by the way. LTA's all about the journey - half way theough the podcast and you were still adventuring towards Dublin!
You must have driven the past Broadway roundabout at the top of the M1 on your travels - they've started the roadworks - apparently it'll take them a couple of years to put up the new sculpture and fix up the road again.
Posted by: Alan | March 13, 2006 at 06:42 PM
"And if an old friend of mine from Belfast, Rory McIlroy, ever blogs, tell him to give me a shout." is how I just ended a blog about the Irish Blog Awards. Belfast is a small place. If you can, get word to Rory to contact me so we can catch up...and teach him what blogs do and why he should have one. Tell him that the Pogues tape he made for me that survived the fire is still providing inspiration.
http://poetslife.blogspot.com/2006/03/irish-blogs-and-awards.html
Posted by: Bruce Curley | March 14, 2006 at 10:11 PM
Jett, looks like you get a mention in the Electric News Net article at http://www.electricnews.net/ffocus.html?code=9674590. To quote:
> One attendee who stood out from the crowd was a tall tuxedoed gentleman who was constantly talking into a large microphone -- presumably for a podcast. Pausing his babbling momentarily to speak into the lectern-mounted mic after he won a raffle prize was a classic piece of Monty Pythonesque slapstick for the online-generation.
Tall, tuxedoed, babbling, large microphone, Pythonesque - certainly doesn't describe Wayne!
Posted by: Alan | March 15, 2006 at 08:55 AM