Monday Mural

 I'm linking up at Monday Mural 

January 2025 - Palm Springs CA

Other Winter 2025 PS murals.

Woman in Glasses 

Painted by artists James Haunt & Zes MSK, the Woman in Glasses is a colorful and fun mural in Palm Springs. Haunt & Zes MSK, famously known for street art in Los Angeles, created a modern piece of public art that perfectly fits in with the vibrant culture found in Greater Palm Springs. 

Various 

 

 Watch Twitter Video here - SNL 

Yes, I searched and searched and this Twitter video is the only one I could find, so forgive all the crap that follows (X's fault).

VIDEO

And Best Costume goes to!!!

Day of the Dead

 

Historic Women

Mary ‘May’ McGee: The dignified Irish mother who took on the might of the State and became a feminist icon died October 28, 2025.

 It was 1970's Ireland. May McGee was 27. She had four pregnancies, had strokes on three of them, suffered paralysis and a cerebral haemorrhage. Partially deaf, living in a mobile home in Skerries with her fisherman husband Seamus, her doctor, a good man, said another pregnancy could kill her. He advised a diaphragm and spermicidal jelly. 

May’s stuff was seized by Customs. She and Seamus was denounced from the altar: ‘Certain people in this parish have brought the church into disrepute’ She left, and never went back.

She was furious. How dare they! Mary Robinson agreed to take her case. Mary Robinson would become Ireland's first female president.

First the High Court threw May’s case out. Then the Supreme Court came down in favour, 4 to 1.

A landmark case. It took another four million years before ‘normal people’ could get what they needed, without prescription, or a letter from the Pope, to protect against pregnancy. 

Contraception on demand! did you ever hear the like?! ‘ A terrible waste of male seed!’ Why couldn’t the young couple live as ‘brother and sister?’. 

May, and Seamus, did us all an enormous favour. They breached the steely grip of the Church, backed by the State. They showed it was possible for ‘ordinary’ people to take them on, and win.

And just in case you’ve forgotten the depths of hypocrisy our very own Taliban sank to, while May was fighting for freedom to choose, 78 priests in Blackrock College were raping little boys, while nuns in ‘Mother and Baby Homes’ and Magdalene Laundries were terrorising young pregnant girls, dumping their dead babies in septic tanks or open fields, or selling them, for handsome profits, to America. 

Ah yes, the good old days