seeing paramilitaries
i think i've got ireland on the brain. yesterday driving into the office there was a black suv in front of me with a sticker from county tyrone with the red hand of ulster. now, the dynamics in northern ireland are still a little outside my realm of knowledge, but the red hand of ulster is creepy to me. and it was made more creepy by the fact that we were on a road that was taking us past a pub that i picked out as an i.r.a. pub a couple of months ago. can't tell you why, but i get a dodgy vibe every time i drive by it. i actually started to envision a drive-by shooting happening between the obviously uvf suv and the ira pub.
today as i was driving in i saw, in passing (give me credit--it was in passing), a sign that had 'IRA' in big letters across the top, some smaller letters and then 'lucky lever #13.' it was close to the ira pub. what the heck is going on in this neighborhood?
turns out it was some guy named ira running for a public office.
Lord, get me to ireland soon and relieve my over-active imagination!
posted by michelle @ 12:49 PM
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Hey Michelle, I was busking in Belfast yesterday. Your entry about paramilitaries was very apt, I was seeing gun-men and spooks walking down the streets from every angle, except they weren't really. The worst thing that happened was when a group of threatening looking men walked by, but then they threw some money in and kept on walking. You will never understand Northern Irish politics - or if you do you'll do better than me.
thanks, stephen. now i'm cool.
Ah no, you were always cool. But now you are cooler.
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