Rule #76: No excuses. Play like a champion!
Its film-fun time again (see how I just transformed a once-off random post into a re-occuring event). Below the cut are 10 pictures, id the films for me. Most are quite...
13 January 2006
I said the honourable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honourable member may place the punctuation where he pleases.
Edited to add my opinion at the end of the post Mary O’Rourke is a Fianna Fáil politician in her 70’s. She has served as Minister for Education in the past...
12 January 2006
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function
To the person who cme here searching for pictures of a one-eyed cat, I’m guessing you were looking for this poor thing, and not my insane cat, who although she is...
12 January 2006
Never leave books near mice, pigeons, children or other vermin that are likely to damage books
Isn’t the interweb frakkin[1] fantastic. Via Crooked Timber[2] there is this genius site where you too can make your own bookmarks. Why would you want to, I hear you cry, well,...
12 January 2006
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
ISBN: 0140108920 ; A Philip Marlowe Mystery #1 It was about eleven o’;clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in...
10 January 2006
We didn’t underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought.
Steve Staunton! Steven Staunton? Where did that come from? I’d heard his name mentioned for the Irish football manager ages ago but never took it seriously. Has he any managerial experience?...
9 January 2006
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Its a boy. No name yet, I’m guessing it won’t be Jayne ;)
9 January 2006
And welcome us all, With so many light years to go, And things to be found
Got a text message a while ago, Brother #1’s girlfriend has gone in to hospital, looks like I’ll be an aunt fairly soon. The parents were en route from Tip when...
8 January 2006
Brokeback Mountain [based on book] by Annie Proulx dir. by Ang Lee
In a way it is a pity that this film has received so much press coverage, it’d be interesting to watch it not knowing what was going to happen between Ennis...
8 January 2006
The Producers dir. by Susan Stroman
If you go see this film looking for nothing more than simple entertainment then you should come out entirely satisfied. It made me laugh, although the songs, with the exception of...
8 January 2006
Rome 1.11 & 1.12 dir. by Alan Taylor, Mikael Salomon
Double episode tonight, so I’m guessing that the BBC have cut a few scenes out of both episode 11 The Spoils and episode 12 Kalends of February. Ah well, we’ll just...
6 January 2006
And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus
*Please imagine a pic of Ian McNeice as the Newsreader from Rome here* Let it be known across this land known as the Suan Hated Literature blog that no discussion of...
6 January 2006