Thanks for thinking of us Sam.

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/midnight_sun/blog/2009/06/liams_north_to_open_in_station.html

The Iranian Government has forced “Election Protest” national football players into retirement. How “revolutionary”, dumb-asses.

http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=91814793602&h=gMRp5&u=_90Vc&ref=nf

Thanks Matt!

Well, here we are, waiting in limbo. The floor plans are back at the drawing board again. I guess, I’ll just go enjoy the Baltimore summer festivals like SoWeBo today. The only thing to look forward to this week is that Barcelona hopefully will beat Manchester United. That would make me very happy.

Not only are the stars in the Big Dipper easily found themselves, they may also be used as guides to yet other stars. Thus it is often the starting point for introducing Northern Hemisphere beginners to the night sky:

Polaris, the North Star, is found by imagining a line from Merak (β) to Dubhe (α) and then extending it for five times the distance between the two Pointers.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Citizen_Army>

<http://libcom.org/library/story-irish-citizen-army-sean-ocasey>

Easter 1916
Author: W. B. Yeats
September 25, 1916
I
I have met them at close of day
Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey
Eighteenth-century houses.
I have passed with a nod of the head
Or polite meaningless words,
Or have lingered awhile and said
Polite meaningless words,
And thought before I had done
Of a mocking tale or a gibe
To please a companion
Around the fire at the club,
Being certain that they and I
But lived where motley is worn:
All changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
II
That woman’s days were spent
In ignorant good-will,
Her nights in argument
Until her voice grew shrill.
What voice more sweet than hers
When, young and beautiful,
She rode to harriers?
This man had kept a school
And rode our winged horse;
This other his helper and friend
Was coming into his force;
He might have won fame in the end,
So sensitive his nature seemed,
So daring and sweet his thought.
This other man I had dreamed
A drunken, vainglorious lout.
He had done most bitter wrong
To some who are near to my heart,
Yet I number him in the song;
He, too, has resigned his part
In the casual comedy;
He, too, has been changed in his turn,
Transformed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
III
Hearts with one purpose alone
Through summer and winter seem
Enchanted to a stone
To trouble the living stream.
The horse that comes from the road,
The rider, the birds that range
From cloud to tumbling cloud,
Minute by minute they change;
A shadow of cloud on the stream
Changes minute by minute;
A horse-hoof slides on the brim,
And a horse plashes within it;
The long-legged moor-hens dive,
And hens to moor-cocks call;
Minute by minute they live:
The stone’s in the midst of it all.
IV
Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.
O when may it suffice?
That is Heaven’s part, our part
To murmer name upon name,
As a mother names her child
When sleep at last has come
On limbs that had run wild.
What is it but nightfall?
No, no, not night but death;
Was it needless death after all?
For England may keep faith
For all that is done and said.
We know their dream; enough
To know they dreamed and are dead;
And what if excess of love
Bewildered them till they died?
I write it out in a verse–
MacDonagh and MacBride
And Connolly and Pearse
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.

Thanks Tim for the this photo from Santa Barbara.

The “Liam’s North Pub” floor plans are back on the table again.  It’s was good to actually get moving on this again.  The “Station North” developement partners have said that they want the Pub to have the proper space that it needs to be sucsessful.  I am really excited about the new pub, but it’s really the Pub regulars that will determine the success of this new project.  I do have to say myself, that I’m really tired of most of my regular watering holes.

Ireland 14-13 England

In a slow start in the first half both teams only achived single penalty kicks. Ireland poured on the steam in the second half and dominated the pitch. O’Driscoll led his team against a very tough England. O’Gara could have widen the points spread at the uprights, but had little success. In the last ten minutes, England’s Armitage ran a surprise try. ”It was a hard game and we’ll take a one-point win over England any day,” said man-of-the-match O’Driscoll.

Hello all. Since it looks like the Pub will be re-opening sometime this year. I would like to take snow laden, downtime to revamp the Friends of the Pub e-mail list. Please send your current address to pintsizepub{at}gmail.com.