No show this Sunday, 23 December

Sorry folks ... I'll be out of town for the holidays and just found out that the broadband Internet access where I'll be staying is unlikely to be working, and unlikely to be fixed by Sunday. Waaaah! Here's hoping the Blarney management manages to find a sub.

In any case, Happy Christmas, and I'll seeyas in 2008!

Love,

Seán

"Ceol agus Craic" with DJ Seán Clancy

Irish rock, folk and traditional music
Live at the Blarney Stone Pub, Dublin in SL
Playlist: 12/9/2007, 10am to noon SL Time (U.S. Pacific Time)

Artist | Song/Tune | Album

Paddy Saul | Walkout | One Town Tasted
Séamus Egan | Masons Apron / My Love Is In America | When Juniper Sleeps
The Mary Janes | Winesong | Sham
La Bottine Souriante | Reel du Forgeron | Xième

The Frames | Perfect Opening Line | Set List
The Bothy Band | Farewell to Erin | Old Hag You Have Killed Me
Clannad | Gaoth Barra Na dTonn | Clannad 2
The Pale | Elizabeth Sna Bratóga! | Ceol '07

Damien Dempsey | Ghosts of Overdoses | Seize the Day (request)
Moving Hearts | Irish Ways and Irish Laws | Moving Hearts
Rodrigo y Gabriela | Diablo Rojo | Rodrigo y Gabriela (request)
Fred | Wouldn't it be good | Making Music So You Don't Have To
Cúig | The Prospect (Hunters House / The New Prospect / Sweet is the Name of Peggy) | Prospect

Planxty | Follow Me Up To Carlow | Planxty
Assembly | Fast G Reels | January EP
Luka Bloom & Christy Moore | I'm a Bogman | Collection (request)
The Stunning | This Happy Girl | Paradise In The Picturehouse

Pádraig Rynne | Barabara Needhams / Christy Barrys / Bye A While | Bye A While
Garrett Wall | When It Comes | Daylight, Nighttime
Ham Sandwich | Song In D | Click...Click...BOOM!!! - Single

Anam | Reels: Riptide Music / Nugent's Reel / Wonders Never Cease | Riptide
That Petrol Emotion | Tension | End Of The Millennium Psychosis Blues
Davy Spillane Band | The Road To Ballyalla | Out Of The Air

Dervish | Packie Duignan's | At The End Of The Day
Stiff Little Fingers | Tin Soldier | Nobody's Heroes

Solas | Dougie MacDonald's / M‡ire Breathnach's #2 / The Antrim Rose / Atlantic Wave / Toss The Feathers | Solas

Oh feck, I've been "tagged."

Yes, it's the latest blog meme, highly communicable, and spreading around the SL blogosphere faster than the Black Death. I would have rolled my eyes, said "Oh, for feck's sake," and ignored it, except that it came from Ryan (God'll get you for that, honey). Sigh.

Then the second punch came from Catero, and after procrastinating for a week I thought I'd get it over with.

Okay, here's the rules:

1. Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
2. People who are tagged need to write a post on their own blog (about their eight things) and post these rules.
3. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
4. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

I'm going to break rule 3, because 1) half the people I'd tag have already been tagged by someone else, and B) I don't even know eight people in SL who have blogs. That's either sad (Seán has no friends, waaaah!) or encouraging (Seán's friends have better things to do than write blogs). But then again, of course, I'm blogging at the moment, so I think that says enough. Ahem.

Okay, here goes.

1. Given the opportunity I will eat an entire large bag of potato chips in one sitting. It's a sickness. (I'm partial to any flavor of Zapp's Potato Chips, especially the Crawtator, Honey Mustard and Creole Tomato and Tabasco flavors), Tim's Hawaiian Kettle Style Luau BBQ and just about any flavor of Walkers crisps (especially the mad Sensations line) from the UK and Ireland. Oh, and Smoky Bacon Taytos. Yay!

2. I'm a very good cook, at least in the home kitchen; in a professional restaurant kitchen I'd be in the weeds and bleeding inside of five minutes. My specialties are Italian, Mexican and Creole. And I talk about food incessantly, as those of you who know me have undoubtedly noticed.

3. Like Ryan, I'm a nonprofessional mixologist of mad skillz. I can fix you a drink that'll make you weep for joy, and forget you ever had anything of the ilk of a "Green Applepuckertini" (which is an abomination before God and man).

4. I've traveled to Ireland several times, and feel very much at home there. So much so, in fact, that I once got drunk with some locals in Donegal ("drunk" ... actually more like banjaxed, ossified, fluthered, in the horrors, langers, locked, paralytic, plastered, scuttered, stocious, twisted and sozzled after about 18 pints of Guinness), somehow managed to get back to my hotel in Derrybeg at 2am without getting nicked by the Gardaí (Irish police), then found the front door locked ... whereupon I sorta broke it down. The damage is still visible. Photographic evidence here, here and here, thanks to Angie Batz.

5. I once met Clint Eastwood. I was the go-to guy for tours of my department in college, and once upon a time he was checking us out for one of his kids. I got a whispery phone call from the department that I'd be doing my next tour for a "VIP." When I showed up to meet this VIP at the deparment office the following Saturday morning, his back was toward me. He turned slowly ... gave me the quintessential Dirty Harry narrow-eyed scowl, and then, in the quintessential Dirty Harry voice he said, "Are you ... Clancy?" My jaw dropped. I blanched, gulped and said, "Uhhhhhh ..." He then broke into a huge grin, laughed, stuck out his hand and said, "Hi, I'm Clint Eastwood, pleasure to meet ya." I then spent the next hour with him.

He is one of the coolest guys in the Universe.

I also waited in line at Pink's hot dog stand behind Mr. Chekov from "Star Trek" (a.k.a. Walter Koenig), and got to chat with him for a while, and not long after that sat right in front of Mr. Sulu (a.k.a. George Takei) in a movie theatre. Living in L.A. can be fun.

6. I'm a native of New Orleans, Louisiana. I love that city more than anywhere. It's a part of me. I identify more as New Orleanian than as American.

7. Ryan Darragh's my partner in RL too, and I love him an awful lot.

8. I've been to Mexico, Ireland, Scotland, France, Russia, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, The Netherlands, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, but I've never been to New York City.

That is all.