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J the R Shortlisted for Costa Award

Posted on November 25, 2009 at 9:20 AM
on Blog of Revelations blog

We are pleased and proud to report that John the Revelator has been nominated for the Costa First Novel Award. RTE news report, 19 mins in:  http://www.rte.ie/player/#v=1060911 Irish Times report:  http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/irel…

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Parlour Review Interview

Posted on November 22, 2009 at 11:31 AM
on Blog of Revelations blog

The Rev. Murphy interviewed by Marion Kelly on the Parlour Review. Originally broadcast last spring.  http://www.theparlourreview.com/peter-mu…

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Sailor and Be-bop-a-Lula

Posted on November 17, 2009 at 8:46 AM
on Blog of Revelations blog

Sweet Gene Vincent, the epitome of Lynchian 50s weirdness. Or maybe the Richard III of rockabilly.

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South to South-East

Posted on November 11, 2009 at 1:26 PM
on Blog of Revelations blog

Forth Worth novelist Cynthis Shearer reviews J the R.  http://thimblewicket.blogspot.com/2009/1…

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Notes from Dirty Old Men

Posted on November 10, 2009 at 3:23 AM
on Blog of Revelations blog

…Parts I & II. And God created Viagra. And there was much rejoicing.

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MBV

Posted on November 7, 2009 at 10:01 AM
on Blog of Revelations blog

And they don’t look a day over 1990. If Ornette Coleman cured Mailer’s fever in Chicago, maybe this’ll keep swine flu at bay…

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Harpya

Posted on November 4, 2009 at 10:55 AM
on Blog of Revelations blog

By Raoul Servais, Palme d’Or for Best Short Film at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. Bet he had a hard time getting a date after this one.

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Cometh the hour

Posted on October 29, 2009 at 6:03 PM
on Blog of Revelations blog

The National Campaign for the Arts calls on the Irish government to maintain arts funding in the upcoming budget.  http://www.petitiononline.com/ncfa/petit… Please sign and forward this request onto any arts supporters you know.

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Gimme gimme shock treatment

Posted on October 24, 2009 at 11:03 AM
on Blog of Revelations blog

A surefire cure for the blues. Al Swearengen’s Positive Mental Attitude Module. Tony Robbins eat your heart out.

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Go tell it to the mountain

Posted on October 24, 2009 at 10:47 AM
on Blog of Revelations blog

rap·ture (rpchr)n. 1. The state of being transported by a lofty emotion; ecstasy. 2. An expression of ecstatic feeling. Often used in the plural. 3. The transporting of a person from one place to another, especially to heaven.

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