Happy Bloomsday!

[Dave Monroe]

On 6/16/08, Tim Strzechowski <dedalus204 at comcast.net> wrote:

> Bloomsday is a commemoration observed annually on 16 June in Dublin and
> elsewhere to celebrate the life of Irish writer James Joyce and relive the
> events in his novel Ulysses, all of which took place on the same day in
> Dublin in 1904. The day is a secular holiday in Ireland. The name derives
> from Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of Ulysses, and 16 June was the date of
> Joyce's first outing with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle, when they walked to
> the Dublin village of Ringsend. [...]
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomsday
> http://www.themodernword.com/joyce/
> http://www.jamesjoyce.ie/
> http://tinyurl.com/6yv554

Matt Cook, "James Joyce"

He was stupid
He didn't know as much as me
I'd rather throw dead batteries at cows than read him
Everything was going fine before he came along
He started the Civil War
He tried to get the French involved, but they wouldn't listen
They filled him up with desserts
He talked about all the great boxers that came from Ireland
Like he trained them or something
Then he started reading some of his stuff
Right as we told him to get lost
He brought up the potato famine
We said "Your potatoes are plenty good"
"Deal with it"
"Work it out somehow"
Then he said "America must adopt the metric system,
it's much more logical"
We said "No ! We like our rulers, go away"
Thomas Jefferson said you always get the rulers you deserve

http://www.worldofpoetry.org/usop/life2.htm
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