Every smile you fake, every vow you break
In yet another example of synchronicity[1] myself and NM caught Dylan Moran’s stand-up show on the telly last night. It was his Monster show, which is from two years ago, so...
8 April 2006
You know another really good business? Teeny tiny baby coffins. You can get them in frog green or fire engine red. Really.
A cat came to the library today. Hesitant and silent as only a big-bellied pregnant cat can be. I told this tabby that we had no smell-o-books, so she left. For...
7 April 2006
The Medici Guns by Martin Woodhouse, Robert Ross
ISBN: none All day long, under a yellow and smoking Tuscan sky, the two huge guns vomited fire. The Medici Guns is set in the 1400’s in Italy, mostly centred on...
6 April 2006
I scream, you scream, we all scream for…
EDIT: It appears that news of Ben &Jerry’s new Black & Tan product has hit the radio. Yup, what did I hear about as I listened to the Ian Dempsey show...
5 April 2006
“You! Yes, you behind the bikesheds, stand still laddy!”
The census is coming, and people are up in arms[1] about Question 14, which asks about “cultural and ethnic backgrounds” and whether a person is White Irish, Black Irish, Asian, Traveller...
4 April 2006
A violation of ‘family viewing time’… a fundamental assault on the family and morality itself
If you’ve been reading this blog carefully and constantly[1] then you may be aware that my flatmate watches the soaps, and therefore, so do I. Well, when I say watch I...
3 April 2006
Love is a force of nature
Yet another Brokeback Parody. This is cute rather than funny. Lets see if this embedable thingemebobable works:
2 April 2006
Tsotsi [based on book] by Athol Fugard dir. by Gavin Hood
This traces a few days in the life of the teenage gang leader Tsotsi. When we first meet him, he and his friends are playing dice, deciding what to do that...
2 April 2006
Can you be perfect?
More rugby today. The Six Nations may be over, but the European Heineken Cup is just starting to get real interesting. Three matches today, but I was only paying attention to...
1 April 2006
Goodbye and thanks for all the fish
Its been fun, over the past few years, but *shrug* I’m bored now. And so, am retiring from the blogosphere. For my final post I’d like to mention one of my...
1 April 2006
Nylon Angel by Marriane De Pierres
If Jamon Mondo touched me one more time I’d kill him.
I almost wish I hadn’t finish this book. I was on the verge of tossing it around two thirds in, but figured I’d read this far might as well see how it ends. But the final third is actually quite good. Not sure if it is enough to make up for the first part, But now I am a little curious about the next books in the series.
31 March 2006
stones sink lower than the clouds sending ripples through the air
It started off a lovely sunny day here today. Started off, so you can tell it didn’t stay that way. But look at that blue sky around the Spike, that was...
31 March 2006
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