― anthony, Sunday, 16 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Andrew L, Sunday, 16 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Chupa-Cabras, Sunday, 16 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Josh, Sunday, 16 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Graham, Sunday, 16 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I cared a little more about June 16th-as-Bloomsday back when WNYC still used the date to broadcast nearly a day's worth of marathon readings of Ulysses and other Joyceanalia. Now I cannot love WNYC, for it is a despicable NPR gigolo, purveyor of Ira Glass and tote bags. And Nina Totenberg. But no Bloomsday on Broadway. FUCKERS.
― Michael Daddino, Sunday, 16 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ronan, Sunday, 16 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Douglas, Sunday, 16 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
sigh...
good times, good times.
― jess, Sunday, 16 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Justyn Dillingham, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
The Pinefox went on a Bloomsday tour yesterday (in between getting into fights with Spanish football fans) and discovered that many tourguides know very little about "Ulysses".
― DV, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Some fans of it say that the key is to read ir aloud, possibly in an Irish accent. This is beyond me - it takes all my effort to do my own accent.
― Martin Skidmore, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
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― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 03:13 (twenty-two years ago)
Hello, ilx.
― the junefox, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― Patrick Kinghorn, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― Leeeeee (Leee), Thursday, 16 June 2005 05:16 (twenty years ago)
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― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 16 June 2005 05:22 (twenty years ago)
― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 16 June 2005 05:56 (twenty years ago)
― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 16 June 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)
Life must be very difficult, Martin.
Today is my mom's birthday. She was born in County Meath.
― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 16 June 2005 06:15 (twenty years ago)
― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 16 June 2005 06:17 (twenty years ago)
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― Leeeeee (Leee), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)
― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)
Happy Bloomsday, Everybody! Wander around! Meet people! Fall in love! Have a pint! Think of today as an epic day. . .
I like the directive.
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)
― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)
http://www.bway.net/~hunger/ch10-uly.gif
― Mr. Que, Saturday, 16 June 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.bway.net/~hunger/ch13-uly.gif
― Mr. Que, Saturday, 16 June 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.bway.net/~hunger/ch15-uly.gif
http://www.bway.net/~hunger/ch17-uly.gif
http://www.bway.net/~hunger/ch18-uly.gif
― Mr. Que, Saturday, 16 June 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)
:D
― jed_, Saturday, 16 June 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)
WOW!
― G00blar, Saturday, 16 June 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)
haha
― That one guy that quit, Saturday, 16 June 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)
the wanking one is hilair.
The whole thing is here
― Mr. Que, Saturday, 16 June 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)
The masturbation one is genius. xpost
― G00blar, Saturday, 16 June 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)
Happy Bloomsday cunts! I am off to see a man who reads Finnegans Wake to schoolchildren!
― Frogman Henry, Saturday, 16 June 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)
my fave:
http://www.bway.net/~hunger/ch4-ulys.gif
― jed_, Saturday, 16 June 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)
-- Mr. Que, Saturday, 16 June 2007 15:00 (1 hour ago)
why go there when you can read it right here?
T
― Edward III, Saturday, 16 June 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)
happy bloomsday yall
― max, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 13:09 (fifteen years ago)
took it out of the library a few times but i never got past the second chapter. i have a $3 copy now. we'll see.
― the most horrifying moment in shallow grave (abanana), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 13:21 (fifteen years ago)
I own it, and have never got past the 2nd chapter. and now i've bought gravity's rainbow. they'll haunt my bookshelf until i die i reckon.
― Remember when Mr Banhart was a replicant? (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 13:24 (fifteen years ago)
Dip into it wherever you want. Don't worry about reading chapters in sequence.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 13:25 (fifteen years ago)
keep them both on the shelf long enough and you'll get mulligan stew xp
― world cop (dyao), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 13:27 (fifteen years ago)
maybe that's good advice, Alfred.
― Remember when Mr Banhart was a replicant? (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 13:29 (fifteen years ago)
its really not as hard-going as people make it out to be. especially once you get past stephens section. and its really amazingly good and beautiful--i am a sucker for canon novels but ulysses is really the real deal imo, life-changing if it hits you right
― max, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 13:30 (fifteen years ago)
The only chapters I haven't reread: the Q&A one (well, I have, but in bits), and Oxen of the Sun, in which Joyce garishly flaunts his knowledge of anthologies of English prose.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 13:31 (fifteen years ago)
xp ^^truth, also it is really easy if you read it in conjunction with one of the many guides out there i.e. the new bloomsday book by blamires
― world cop (dyao), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 13:32 (fifteen years ago)
i love the questions chapter--ithaca! but i wont quibble. its a book that wants you to dislike parts, i think.
this is one of my favorite ilx posts:
OK, OK.1. Don't read him. Dubliners is blank and empty of significance, the Portrait is theocentric and tedious, Exiles is an embarrassing failure and never revived, Ulysses is a homely family homily in disguise, Finnegans Wake is a self-indulgent crossword puzzle no-one should bother with.
2. Don't get distracted by anecdotes - people rehashing some apocryphal story about something that JJ once said to WBY, or something one newspaper said about U. It's astounding how untrue most of these are.
3. I don't know that anyone else had, or has, registered the movement of things like him - objects, I mean, fluttering pieces of torn paper blown on a light breeze under a railway bridge or eddying back and forth on a tide; a door opening or closing on imperfect hinges; the sort of things amid which we (still) live.
4. Not just 'things' but social processes - how many times have I been out for a night in a boozer or three and been reminded of Sirens / Cyclops / Oxen, the way that he understands how gatherings work, how geezers get together, come in at five and pop back at seven, pass a newspaper report around the table and try to find the funniest things to say about it, while someone colourfully offers another round;
5. or those ordinary actions that I was so astounded to find in U, first time around - getting up and bantering while cooking breakfast (milk, cream, lemon - simply beauties), walking home drunk in the middle of the night - things no-one ever notices about Joyce.
6. Felicities: colons: rhythms: full stops. Periods.
7. Lists: catalogues: series: sequences: successions: which interrupt a narrative and lurch sideways, out of 'time' and into frozen textual 'space', for as long as they want, until they have become as extraordinarily funny as they care to be.
8. 'Humanity' - I mean, compassion, care for 'ordinary people', interest in things that others had thought beneath them, 'daily life'.
9. Yet not just a generalized wash of 'liberalism', perhaps - noteworthy enough in itself, next to so much of the rest of modernism - but something harder and more clear-eyed in its political calculations. Wells called the Portrait a book that only an Irish Catholic could have written, a quasi-Republican complaint, a Fenian yawp: what if the mass of historical data and learning in Ulysses and maybe beyond is really an immense, dense, complex political analysis, the pen as scalpel, 'lancet of my art', casually pricking the bulbous balloon of post-Victorian imperial culture?
10. Read him: Dubliners is hard as the side of an engine (Pound), the Portrait dares to denote childhood as no-one else had, Ulysses is all we need, the Wake might be what we need when we've just about, improbably, had enough of all we thought we needed.
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― max, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 13:37 (fifteen years ago)
xp to max- i accept all of that (i used to be a die-hard 'ulysses is some bullshit nonsense' challoper in my early days, but now it's more that i'm probably afraid that i don't have half of the relevant knowledge to do it justice as a reader)
― Remember when Mr Banhart was a replicant? (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 13:39 (fifteen years ago)
yeah. books get intimidating sometimes. joyce doesnt really like to tell you anything either--he prefers you to figure stuff out on your own, which is frustrating, but it can also be liberating, realizing that you dont really HAVE to know at all times exactly where bloom is or what his relationship is to his interlocutor or why he says or does this. (i feel the same way abt gravitys rainbow--i read the whole thing last year and i think i "got" the large strokes of the plot but certainly there was a huge portion that just went directly over my head and i still loved it)
― max, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 13:41 (fifteen years ago)
you comfort this one dude tbh
― Remember when Mr Banhart was a replicant? (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 13:44 (fifteen years ago)
And, like dyao said, don't be afraid of using Cliff Notes or Harry Levin's invaluable if pedantic guide to help.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 14:08 (fifteen years ago)
ah wouldn't it take the fun out that way though?
― Remember when Mr Banhart was a replicant? (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 14:28 (fifteen years ago)
Not if you reach the point where you're confident enough to say, "Screw this guide."
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 14:33 (fifteen years ago)
oh i'm that already, albeit in a doomed-to-fail homer simpson tribute
― Remember when Mr Banhart was a replicant? (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 14:34 (fifteen years ago)
there's a Ulysses movie? playing on irish tv atm.
― Remember when Mr Banhart was a replicant? (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 23:35 (fifteen years ago)
I'm gonna do it. Got myself a secondhand edition from the bookstore to celebrate Bloomsday, and I'm going to read it. (apparently I have the Gabler edition if it means anything to anyone).
I'm excited! I feel ready.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Thursday, 17 June 2010 01:06 (fifteen years ago)
Yes.
― Pubes Like Jagger (Leee), Saturday, 16 June 2012 21:48 (thirteen years ago)
Wait, I mean
http://www.peterwexlerstudio.com/Red_Bars/BLACK_DOT.gif
This year Bloomsday fell on a weekend
― If There's a POLL Below, We're All Going to Vote (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 June 2012 22:12 (thirteen years ago)
happy bloompsday one and all
― Zaireeka Badu (NickB), Saturday, 16 June 2012 22:22 (thirteen years ago)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jl7l9
this was a medium treat y/day
― Mexès Coleslaw Massacre (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 17 June 2012 01:23 (thirteen years ago)
mr. leopold bloomps ate w/ relish the inner organs of goons and trolls..― Blazes Boyband (Pillbox), Thursday, January 20, 2011 2:26 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark
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― brödinger's cat (Pillbox), Sunday, 17 June 2012 02:03 (thirteen years ago)
^ irl lols
― brödinger's cat (Pillbox), Sunday, 17 June 2012 02:16 (thirteen years ago)
I feel stately plump this Sat night
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 17 June 2012 02:17 (thirteen years ago)
Dedalus hears a shout in the street and
― If There's a POLL Below, We're All Going to Vote (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 June 2012 04:18 (thirteen years ago)
Turned on BBC a few days ago, didn't expect to hear Gogarty talking about the color of Joyce's eyelashes (chestnut.)
― hot slag (lukas), Sunday, 17 June 2012 07:08 (thirteen years ago)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jl7l9this was a medium treat y/day― Mexès Coleslaw Massacre (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 17 June 2012 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Mexès Coleslaw Massacre (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 17 June 2012 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
So that's where Mark Lawson has ended up? Was put off everytime I heard his voice introduced but it clicked with me in the last segment toward midnight. Much better w/ radio then.
The discussion was bad tho'. Made me think we shd all forget this and move onto FW.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 17 June 2012 10:10 (thirteen years ago)
― brödinger's cat (Pillbox), Saturday, June 16, 2012 10:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
x2
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 17 June 2012 15:56 (thirteen years ago)
the discussion-y bits and the limited scope of the adaptation was why i'd call it only a "medium" treat, but it was a sweet surprise to turn the radio on and hear decent actors reading the excerpts
― Mexès Coleslaw Massacre (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 17 June 2012 17:19 (thirteen years ago)
Agree, nice to get a reminder of how truly great Molly's soliloquy is!
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 17 June 2012 20:50 (thirteen years ago)
i don't understand the weekend lol?
― jed_, Sunday, 17 June 2012 20:57 (thirteen years ago)
Time once again to raise a glass to Stately plump Buck Mulligan and company.
― Aimless, Sunday, 16 June 2013 19:01 (twelve years ago)
These guys added a welcome colour to d2 and environs this am
― should we bin tapping? (darraghmac), Sunday, 16 June 2013 19:45 (twelve years ago)
"Words? Music? No: it's what's behind. Bloom looped, unlooped, noded, disnoded."
― Liquid Plejades, Sunday, 16 June 2013 22:39 (twelve years ago)
i've always imagined the citizen as john goodman bc of oh brother
― Mordy , Monday, 17 June 2013 01:18 (twelve years ago)
Interesting. iirc the citizen is gertie mcdowell's grandfather, which i think is a nice touch
― Treeship, Monday, 17 June 2013 01:32 (twelve years ago)
Poop and onions! Missed it!
― Interpretive Jigglypuffery (Leee), Friday, 17 June 2016 14:43 (nine years ago)
It was the first time since I was a teenager that I haven't read Ulysses on the 16th. Just didn't have my copy with me .
― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Friday, 17 June 2016 14:55 (nine years ago)
Every year (except the one year I made it over to Dublin to celebrate) it creeps up on me unawares. I did post about it yesterday but then UK news took over and it didn't seem particularly important.
― emil.y, Friday, 17 June 2016 15:15 (nine years ago)
mocker serious etc
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 17 June 2016 15:56 (nine years ago)
It rolls around once again. Got a copy of the book out to have a wee dip into through the day and might watch/listen to a few online readings/performances.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jun/15/bloomsday-james-joyce-celebration-goes-online-ulysses
― brain (krakow), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 10:48 (five years ago)
A pint of plain is your only man.
― Soft Mutation Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 11:12 (five years ago)
Sorry, wrong thread.
haha!
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 11:21 (five years ago)
Totally forgot this year and didn't see any mention of it to remind me until today.
― brain (krakow), Thursday, 17 June 2021 16:50 (four years ago)
Frauenzimmer
― Holly Godarkbloom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 June 2023 06:27 (two years ago)
bloomps
― emil.y, Friday, 16 June 2023 09:56 (two years ago)
Leoplod Bloomps.
― Cashews Everything Around Me (Leee), Saturday, 17 June 2023 19:44 (two years ago)
Your head it simply bloomps
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 17 June 2023 19:45 (two years ago)
No greater joke in all fiction than the transition from Gertie pining to Bloom finishing up
― H.P, Wednesday, 25 June 2025 23:45 (three days ago)
I still don't get U.P.: up.
― fetter, Thursday, 26 June 2025 13:24 (two days ago)
Thought I figured it out once, but I’ve long since forgotten
― 35 Millimeter Dream Police (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 June 2025 23:02 (two days ago)
You pee up
― H.P, Thursday, 26 June 2025 23:45 (two days ago)
That's what I thought though this site thinks that's a stretch and it just means UP as in done for - it does a good job of citing similar & contemporary usages: http://m.joyceproject.com/notes/080010upup.html
― the wrong witch roams the earth (ledge), Friday, 27 June 2025 08:45 (yesterday)
I feel like it could be as simple as the unintelligibility of the message having a negative effect on a guy with already shaky mental health
― i got bao-yu babe (Noodle Vague), Friday, 27 June 2025 11:51 (yesterday)