Arrived while I was away: Kate Ryan’s new (Sept 2026) ‘Blood, Guts & Black Pudding: Ireland’s Dying Art of Blood as Food.’
Ireland is not unique in its blood-eating (Germans, Filipinos, Maasai, Cajuns, and French—to name a few—also indulge), but I’m particularly looking forward to biting into this.
![Wheat paste poster of the goddess Coatlicue on a building’s exterior near the University of Guanajuato. Its text reads:
Dulce madre, no te alejes.
Tu vista de mí no apartes.
Ven conmigo a todas partes.
Y sola nunca me dejes.
[Sweet Mother, do not go away from me.
Do not turn your gaze from me.
Come with me everywhere.
And never leave me alone.]
Unrelated, one could argue, to the thread. I enjoy street art everywhere I find myself. Mixed feelings on graffiti, though. On historic buildings when it’s done poorly, I feel sorrow— though at times even that can be justified. My favorites remain wheat paste posters and images made elsewhere and hastily applied to the outside of buildings. Does (almost) no damage and eventually falls away. Let’s have more of that. The artist, whom I don’t know, is on Instagram: @m_patito_](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fvj4gwmhrbmadale57csaw2r/bafkreiguvjj6v5hv65ukedybbvcwtb7kuxcpfbrvu5j54g5nq3immazceu)
