Monthly Archive: May 2004

Films

Have recently been to see Wonderland and The Day After Tomorrow, but don’t have time to do proper reviews for either. So here are the mini-reviews: Would recommend Wonderland. Dark and...

More wierdness

this time courtesy of Sally: A man has comitted suicide after having relations with a chicken. Or to put it another way, he knew the chicken, in the biblical sense. More...

Bizareness Abounds

The Guardian have a story about a boy who has been convicted of incitement to his own murder.
The 14 y.o. met a 16 y.o. online and persuaded him, through the creation of various fictional characters, that he was taking part in an initiation into the Secret Service, and that his murder victim was dying of cancer.

Make that She-Ra!

You are He-Man from Masters of the Universe! Youtake life very seriously, and you should,considering you are the keeper of all that isgood and right in the universe! However, yournonstop suspicion...

Anyone got a couple of quid to spare?

News from the Sligo Champion (free ref req’d), is that the Hawkswell theatre may not survive past this year. The Arts Council have cut funding, and it doesn’t look like the...

Ireland and Neutrality

Very interesting reading on Internet Commentator about De Valera and his paying his respects on the death of Hitler. Now, ever since my leaving cert I’ve been a Collins girl, not...

Today

Was a complete and utter drag. First off I slept in, due to the fact that we had no electricity and so I was depending on my phone to wake me...

Duirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite

That is the enscription on Spike Milligan’s headstone. For those of you without Irish it is a translation of what he wanted: “I told you I was ill.” Duirt mé (I...

Sunny Weather

The past few days here have been wonderful, lovely sunny weather with not a cloud in the sky for several days in a row. And the North Atlantic Skyline blog has...