Susan Hated Literature

There is nothing better in life than being woken in the middle of the night/morning to some fella shouting about “how easy it is” “In my country” “Queer” “Call the guards” and other random proclamations of drunkenness. I’m not quite sure what prompted the screamed declarations of gayness, and I don’t really care. So fair play^[1] to whomever tossed out the glass of water that shut him up.

Once it was just water and not a block of cement… but there was no blood on the footpath, so it mustn’t have been anything overly violent. Right?

Was home for the weekend. Bank holiday too, so extra day away^[2] Spent most of it watching the various sports. Ireland played Australia in the first of the “Made-Up sport” which is also known as International Rules. Was a pretty tame affair, till the last quarter, but hopefully the second and final test will be a bit livelier^[3] as I’m heading up to watch it on Sunday.

Sky Sports were being ever so generous and let us have free access to Sky Sports 3, which was great, only they didn’t show the Munster match. Bastards. But we did get to watch Ulster and Leinster lose. Which was nice!

I really hate and despise Sky Sports. Mainly because they nick everything from free-ish^[4] tv and then go and advertise their wonders as you tune in to catch the highlights of the match they stole on RTE. So we’re treated to Peter Stringer’s fantastic try from last year’s win, in wonderful slow-motion, just so we can appreciate what we won’t get to see this year.

Have I mentioned before that capitalism is an evil force and needs to be eradicated from the face of the earth?

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Luna Nina says
1. Costume ::
2. Beg ::
3. Hottie ::
4. Celebrity ::
5. Saturday ::
6. Buckle ::
7. Doorbell ::
8. Rude ::
9. Absence ::
10. Hyper ::

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Work - busy - stuff - gone.

Got all that?
Good, I’m glad, cause I don’t.

Anyways, I was over at Heather’s and spotted this Shelfari thing. For adding books and showing them off. Now, I already use Library Thing, but only for what I own, and considering that I haven’t quite achieved my goal of winning the EuroMillions lottery yet, I don’t actually own all the books I want to read. So I messed about with it a little. But it wouldn’t work properly with Firefox^[1] and kept hanging, so despite having added a load of books over there I’ve decided not to use it, and instead am going to use aNobii for keeping a list of “everything I’ve ever read in the world and then some” see, this is my shelf.

And when I get round to it I’ll stick the fingy in the sidebar which’ll let you know what trifficly exciting book I am reading at any given moment. Doesn’t that make you happy?

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Dir: Andrew Davis
Writ: Ron L. Brinkerhoff

• Kevin Costner - Ben Randall
• Ashton Kutcher - Jake Fischer
• Sela Ward - Helen Randall
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• Clancy Brown - Capt. William Hadley

Grizzled old veteran teaches impudent new pup how to be a rescue swimmer.
And that is about it.

But if that was all I said it’d make for a pretty short review, so I’ll just bullshit away here for a few minutes. The Guardian is a pretty crap version of Top Gun only instead of planes and war you get oceans and rescues. But the rest is fairly similar; elite training camp, male bonding, token females, death of team-members, training montage etc etc. But all in all it isn’t terrible.

It is however full of very cliché in film history, so there are no surprises at all, everything happens exactly as you might expect. Even the “cool slow-motion shots” occur when you think they might. The only thing surprising about this film is the length. It does drag towards the end. And the beginning. And the middle isn’t too well-paced either.

But it is still watchable, laughable yes, but also watchable.

IMDb | Reason To Believe | PopDVD | The Renaissance Man

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I hate / Je déteste / Ich hasse / is fuath liom Tuesdays. Some people may not like Mondays^[1] but for me Tuesdays are so much worse.

At least on a Monday the day before was the weekend. On a Tuesday morning you still have four whole days of work, but the day before was also a working day. So the weekend feels so very very far away. And it doesn’t help that all^[2] students are evil devil-beasts.

I hate Tuesdays^[3]

But, all is not doom and gloom, cause look, is this not the coolest thing evah! And the trailer is well cool, innit? Course, it doesn’t get released here for another 100 years^[4] Typical Tuesday news.

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Author: Georgette Heyer
ISBN: 0099465760
DDC: 823.912
See also: Library Thing

The youthful gentleman in the scarlet coat with blue facings and gold lace, who was seated in the window of Lady Worth’s drawing-room, idly looking down into the street, ceased for a moment to pay any attention to the conversation that was in progress.

Bab Childe, renowned beauty, is in Brussels along with many a fashionable person. Britain had been isolated by Napoleon’s earlier campaigns so many took the chance to travel and revisit Europe when he was defeated. But now he is on the move again, prompting the arrival of the red coated officers, along with the rest of Wellington’s “infamous army”.

Bab is the great-granddaughter of Julian Alastair from Heyer’s earlier books. But her is not the only family to make a return, as the Worths also turn up.

As is usual in Heyer books there is a central romance to this novel, but it isn’t your average regency romance, as there is a much darker tone to this book. War and death will do that.

Overall I did enjoy this book, but it didn’t seem to quite fit together, almost as though Heyer wanted to write a serious book about war and Waterloo, Wellington and Napoleon, but at the same time wanted to fit in her romance. Or possibly didn’t want to alienate her publishers/readers. Whatever the reason, this ends up uneven in story and atmosphere. Moving from a light-hearted romance into descriptions of wounded and dying soldiers. Sections work really well. But as a whole the novel doesn’t.

Still entertaining, and interesting, especially if you have any interest in this time-period, because Heyer has a real ability to create a world-view and make it seem realistic, but not as readable as some of her other works.

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I’d've started this post with a Dude-like exclamation, only I did that last time, and I can’t be repeating myself. Not for a short while anyway.

I guess Ronan O’Gara was proven totally and utterly correct when he said that Irish teams no longer have to fear English ones. After all, all three of our provinces involved in the Heinekin Cup won their matches, and England only 1 out 6. The French got 4 our of 7. While the Welsh got 3 our of 3. Scotland played 2 and won one^[1]
Course on account of the ebilness of capitalism I didn’t get to watch any. I had intended to go down the pub on Sunday to watch Munster. But laziness defeated me. I listened to the Leinster match, and have the highlights recorded. And watched the highlights of the Munster match. Anyone know why RTE don’t just show the entire match?

All hail Ronan, that was a fantastic last penalty. After missing one from closer in earlier, and faced with that rain, and all that pressure. What can you say but “Dude”^[2]

It is also Luna Nina time, and she says:

1. Stuff ::
2. Block ::
3. Ingredient ::
4. Flagrant ::
5. Dandruff ::
6. Betty ::
7. Tide ::
8. Judges ::
9. Take it easy ::
10. Chef ::

WHile I say

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