Author: Dearbhla

I dont wanna

No offence or nuffink, but I am not interested in a bloody Green Card to the US of A, so enough with the blinking ads. Has no one told you that...

Lives of the Monster Dogs by

ISBN: 0340685972 ; In the near future a group of dogs head for New York, but these are not your average four legged friends. They walk on their hindlegs, can talk,...

Blather Shitegeist

God do I love the Blather Shitegeist: “Keane bestrides the Irish consciousness like CuChullain. A man seemingly born to conflict, with a staggering ability to make others around him perform beyond...

Regret

I love stumble, but sometimes I just wish I hadn’tvisited certain images :)

Andromeda hits the dust

According to the Great Link and via Comic Book Guy Andromeda has finally been cancelled. And Mutant X too Now these two shows, I will admit, I have watched, although Mutant...

Vexillology

Isn’t the internet a wonderful place? One learns so many things, for example, that vexillologists are people who are flag aficionadoa, I never knew that before :)
Course the reason I came across the term in Iraq’s new flag, the one with the blue cresent, picked by the Iraqi ruling council.

Mother Tongue by

ISBN: 014014305X I really enjoyed this book, an entertaining and humorous look at the origins of the English language, its various dialects and the roles other languages have played in giving...

More from Jo

“Wars eat your youth. When I was in college we made a census, boys and girls. There were about half girls and half boys but now there are maybe ten times...

Isn’t work weird?

Isn’t it strange what you come across in the course of a day? There I was doing the ILLs when I saw an intriging article title before me: “Vacum Cleaner Injury...

Hidalgo dir. by

Frank Hopkins sets out to the Middle East to compete in a long distance race, 3,000 miles across the desert. Racing against the finest Arabian horses on his mustang Hidalgo, in...

Red Mist by

Full title Red Mist: Roy Keane and the Football Civil war. A fan’s story ISBN: 0747570140 See also: LibraryThing ; Roy’s stats from Man U ; Guardian article written during Saipan...