22 June 2006
Cast: Cheyenne Jackson, Christian Clemenson, Opal Alladin, Polly Adams, Trish Gates
Script: Peter Greengrass
Genre: drama
9 Stars
2 Comments
This is a film that is pretty impossible to review as just a film. We’ve all seen the news footage of those planes crashing into the World Trade Centre, we all know what happened that September. And part of me … Continue reading
22 June 2006
Call no: 422
Genre: non-fiction
7 Stars
26 Comments
ISBN: 0316731005 A long time ago in China, a philosopher was asked the first thing he would do if he became ruler. The philosopher thought for a while, and then said: well, if something had to be put first, I … Continue reading
22 June 2006
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I’m working today until 8. 8 o’clock in the evening! Course I didn’t start til almost 1 so it is actually a shorter day than normal, but I’m chosing to moan about the negative. It is much more fun to … Continue reading
21 June 2006
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There is a bloody cat out the back at work today, and it has been squalling all day long. Maybe the wind blew it into the bin. Or maybe it’s a mammy-cat looking for a kitten. Or maybe it’s just … Continue reading
21 June 2006
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Is Sligo turning into the next Limerick[1] Okay, so Im stirring, but look, bombings, which may, or may not, be related to feuding families. And onto the world cup, did you watch England play? Was a good match I thought, … Continue reading
19 June 2006
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Over the past few weeks there have been a few posts about the Irish blog’verse referring to the stress of the Leaving Cert. Now, maybe it is nostalgia, but I don’t remember being all that stressed about it. I know … Continue reading
Cazaril heard the mounted horsemen on the road before he saw them. He glanced over his shoulder. The well-worn track behind him curled up around a rolling rise, what passed for a hill on these high windy plains, before dipping again into the late-winter muck of Baocia’s bony soil
Lois McMaster Bujold is one of the big names in SFF, but I’ve only recently come to read her books. A few months ago I read Paladin of Souls, which is the second in the Chalion series. But although there are reoccuring characters and shared history I don’t think you have to have the first one in order to read that. I hadn’t, but I’m sure that if I now reread it after reading The Curse of Chalion it would make a lot more sense.
17 June 2006
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That has to have been the worst match of the World Cup so far. The US did nothing but foul, and the Italians did nothing but dive. Terrible, terrible game. I wasn’t too pushed either way when it started, I … Continue reading
17 June 2006
Cast: Stephanie Leonidas
2 Comments
So I got out of bed with surprising ease this morning. Dressed in my Irish top I almost poisoned myself with sour milk, but spotted that there was something wrong with the tea and poured it down the sink. And … Continue reading
16 June 2006
13 Comments
Oh dear god in heaven! Gorram, mother-fucking, clicking on the wrong humping button! I’d just finished a long post all about the World Cup and what have I gone and done, yup, clicked by accident on the wrong button. And … Continue reading