Des Traynor
@desthedog.bsky.social
Writer, I guess. How about you?
I had the misfortune to encounter this Pillar of Society in 1991,when I was referred to her after a surgeon botched a ‘routine’ procedure, resulting in chronic pain.She interrogated me relentlessly. A disgusting person.There is a lot of € to be made mistreating those with mental health difficulties.
June 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I had the misfortune to encounter this Pillar of Society in 1991,when I was referred to her after a surgeon botched a ‘routine’ procedure, resulting in chronic pain.She interrogated me relentlessly. A disgusting person.There is a lot of € to be made mistreating those with mental health difficulties.
Guess where I’m off to?
June 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Guess where I’m off to?
It seems that I have a piece in Totally Dublin, about Profiles literary and visual arts magazine.
May 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
It seems that I have a piece in Totally Dublin, about Profiles literary and visual arts magazine.
Israel is, apparently, ‘the Jewish state’, and is committing genocide. That would make anyone ‘antisemitic’.
May 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Israel is, apparently, ‘the Jewish state’, and is committing genocide. That would make anyone ‘antisemitic’.
Outside of all the High Modernist and playful postmodernist novels I love, probably my favourite, desert island novel is Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s The Leopard. Subtle, precise, fatalistic, elegiac. Magnificent sentences. And it’s got a story.
The Leopard doesn’t change his spots. The times do.
The Leopard doesn’t change his spots. The times do.
May 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Outside of all the High Modernist and playful postmodernist novels I love, probably my favourite, desert island novel is Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s The Leopard. Subtle, precise, fatalistic, elegiac. Magnificent sentences. And it’s got a story.
The Leopard doesn’t change his spots. The times do.
The Leopard doesn’t change his spots. The times do.
The U.S. has made itself an enemy of civilisation, a friend of barbarism, and is - to borrow a phrase from a former president - the main locus of evil in the world today.
April 26, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The U.S. has made itself an enemy of civilisation, a friend of barbarism, and is - to borrow a phrase from a former president - the main locus of evil in the world today.
Fun Factoid. Bet you didn't know that now.
'Bowie and his wife Angie moved out of Beckenham's Haddon Hall because of harassment by fans. They moved initially into an apartment in Maida Vale, rented to them by the actress Diana Rigg, before moving into a larger house on Oakley Street, Chelsea.'
'Bowie and his wife Angie moved out of Beckenham's Haddon Hall because of harassment by fans. They moved initially into an apartment in Maida Vale, rented to them by the actress Diana Rigg, before moving into a larger house on Oakley Street, Chelsea.'
March 8, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Fun Factoid. Bet you didn't know that now.
'Bowie and his wife Angie moved out of Beckenham's Haddon Hall because of harassment by fans. They moved initially into an apartment in Maida Vale, rented to them by the actress Diana Rigg, before moving into a larger house on Oakley Street, Chelsea.'
'Bowie and his wife Angie moved out of Beckenham's Haddon Hall because of harassment by fans. They moved initially into an apartment in Maida Vale, rented to them by the actress Diana Rigg, before moving into a larger house on Oakley Street, Chelsea.'
See, this whole let’s ethically cleanse Palestine and turn it into a high-end tourist resort has a long history for the United States of America (and other colonial powers).
February 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
See, this whole let’s ethically cleanse Palestine and turn it into a high-end tourist resort has a long history for the United States of America (and other colonial powers).
Not so different from some of our punk footwear, back in the (more recent) day.
February 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Not so different from some of our punk footwear, back in the (more recent) day.
Three collections of short stories reviewed, from my early days at Books Ireland. At least it led to an enduring friendship with Éilís Ní Dhuibhne.
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January 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Three collections of short stories reviewed, from my early days at Books Ireland. At least it led to an enduring friendship with Éilís Ní Dhuibhne.
desmondtraynor.substack.com/p/solomons-s...
desmondtraynor.substack.com/p/solomons-s...
Angiogram over. One stent required.
January 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Angiogram over. One stent required.
What a disappointment rabid Zionist David Simon, crested of The Wire, has turned out to be. Foul mouthed as well as ignorant. Interesting how he doesn’t mention the British Empire once. The denizens of the genocide enabling U.S. really are living in an alternate reality.
January 6, 2025 at 9:03 AM
What a disappointment rabid Zionist David Simon, crested of The Wire, has turned out to be. Foul mouthed as well as ignorant. Interesting how he doesn’t mention the British Empire once. The denizens of the genocide enabling U.S. really are living in an alternate reality.
Blotto the Beatific altar boy. Probably confuses $$$ with God.
January 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Blotto the Beatific altar boy. Probably confuses $$$ with God.
Callow review of The Information by Martin Amis, although I can see that I had made my mind up early about Amis. Again, from the late '90s, in The Big Issues, of all places.
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January 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Callow review of The Information by Martin Amis, although I can see that I had made my mind up early about Amis. Again, from the late '90s, in The Big Issues, of all places.
desmondtraynor.substack.com/p/the-inform...
desmondtraynor.substack.com/p/the-inform...
Good books that probably wouldn’t get published today #7.
December 18, 2024 at 11:36 AM
Good books that probably wouldn’t get published today #7.
My review of the Dogs album Joy, in the new December issue of The Goo. Alas, it appears anonymously, credited to the initials ??. Perhaps my signature style is so recognisable that the DT is unnecessary.
@seanmillardrm.bsky.social
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@seanmillardrm.bsky.social
www.e-magin.se/latestpaper/...
December 5, 2024 at 11:31 AM
My review of the Dogs album Joy, in the new December issue of The Goo. Alas, it appears anonymously, credited to the initials ??. Perhaps my signature style is so recognisable that the DT is unnecessary.
@seanmillardrm.bsky.social
www.e-magin.se/latestpaper/...
@seanmillardrm.bsky.social
www.e-magin.se/latestpaper/...
Diehard Liverpool fan @declynchwriter.bsky.social predictably having a chuckle at City's expense in the @irishindependent.bsky.social (Sindo). Let's see how it all pans out, eh? Six titles in seven years is, in all fairness, none too shabby. Or would he prefer we win the Prem every year?
December 2, 2024 at 12:04 PM
Diehard Liverpool fan @declynchwriter.bsky.social predictably having a chuckle at City's expense in the @irishindependent.bsky.social (Sindo). Let's see how it all pans out, eh? Six titles in seven years is, in all fairness, none too shabby. Or would he prefer we win the Prem every year?