Anyone going to celebrate Bloomsday?

[sublime]

Bless you if you know what it is!

[drop]

Is it true someone is going to make a movie of it?

[sublime]

Two movies have already been made: one a good 20-30 years ago, and another one just last year. It's called "Bl,.m", or "Bloom" for those who want to say it out loud. From what I've read, the new movie is awful, and from the trailer I've checked, it's unfaithful to the book at times.

Hope that answers your question.

[Stephen Beesley]

This year actually marks the 100th "Bloomsday" (well it would except the concept of celebrating Bloomsday itself was invented for the 50th anniversery in 1954, by a group of Irish writers in Dublin who spent the day re-tracing the route followed by Bloom.

This year for the 100th there is going to be a month or so of events.

[Steven Cedrone]

Check out Google's title today...

http://www.google.com/logos/james_joyce.gif

Steve

[Theo]

And if you like the Google doodles - check out the Google Blog (http://www.google.com/googleblog/2004/06/oodles-of-doodles.html)entry by the guy who does em; Dennis Hwang

And a list of the holiday one's he's done (http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html)

[sublime]

I soooo wanted to be in Dublin for this day. Professors from around the world have a week-long conference where they talk about nothing but Joyce. It'd be like a mental-orgasm.

Buuuut I couldn't afford it, so I'm stuck here at home reading the book instead.