Jun 14 2005
Episode 1.05 - written by Christian Taylor
The realities of being ship-wrecked (plane wrecked doesn’t sound right does it?) begin to set in. Water is in short supply, and there is a death. Bringing the number of survivors down to 46. (spoilers if you read on) Continue Reading »
Tags: Christian Taylor, I hate Jack, Lost, lost 1.05, Lost season 1, White RabbitJun 14 2005
Early morning. Fog moves, rolls across the land. Hiding, then revealing the bare wooden bones of fences. But never venturing down the path, it alone is unconcealed. Revealed.
In the distance, made small by the space, stand the sentinals.
Always in twos, always silent, always there. They stand and watch and wait. Guardians. Defenders. Watchers. They protect the path, none can walk it without their knowledge. None can walk it without their assent.
Consent is never given. So nothing ever walks down the path, no one knows where it leads, or why it is guarded. No one even attempts to learn anymore. Even the animals avoid the path. Late every spring there are a certain amount of casulties, young animals, birds that have not learnt.
The occasional overly adventerous child. A lesson for all the others, but one that fades with time, until the next rebel, the next loss.
The sentinels do not care, do not offer excuses or reasons. Grief and mourning, accusations and blame. They never respond to emotions, or words, or tears. Only to tresspassers.
They stand, silent, unmoving. Great wooden sentinels. Their reason, their intent unknown, long since forgotton. Only their actions left. Sentinels: bringers of death.
Forgotten Machine posted his 15-min challenge, and I decided to give it a go. You’ll find the pic here
Tags: ficThe rules are as follows:
1. Click here and choose any image you like.
2. Compose your piece in less than 15 mins.
3. Post it to your blog.
4. I think for this round it might be interesting to read the piece without seeing the image first, so just provide a link to the image after the piece (note that since the website uses frames, you can get the URL for particular images by hovering over the thumbnails).
Jun 14 2005
So did that post title get your attention, well this isn’t all that exciting. It is more of a complaint about Fianna Fail, the Publican Party (okay, stolen from a letter in the paper today).
For the few non-Irishers that exist, we have this minister for justice, Michael McDowell. Recently he’s been in the papers here because of his plans to introduce ASBOs, but also because of plans to try and introduce cafe-bars. Places where people can eat and drink at the same time, and so hopefully not get vomiting/fighting drunk all the time.
But then some politicians got upset. 14 FF backbenchers I believe. And Mr. McDowell decided, hmmm, maybe not such a great idea, instead he’s going to allow restaurants to serve a full range of alcoholic beverages (is this really so different?).
Everyone knows that there is a drink problem in Ireland. But personally I don’t see how limiting pub hours, and having them all end at the same time is ever going to help reduce drunken fights. But maybe, having people get used to eating and drinking (so drinking less) will help to change attitudes/practice. Of course it isn’t going to happen instantly, but anyone thinking we can stop night-time brawls with any sort of knee-jerk reaction is not too bright.
If people object to “drunken mobs” then maybe they should try and get more gardaà out on the streets, and so arrest anyone who is causing hassle. Of course, that’d cost more money wouldn’t it?
I’m not even going to go into the fact that there are a whole lot of non-drinkers and designated drivers being ripped off every time they go tot he pub to meet people. And as for mentioning the fact that not everyone who has a couple of drinks in a night is not a “father jack” type.
Tags: drink, Fianna Fáil, Michael McDowell, Minister for JusticeJun 14 2005
Breakingnews.ie say that young people, people in Munster and Sinn Féin voters all have something in common. Can you tell what it is yet?
Tags: GardaÃ, Lusk shooting, The Irish Times
