Susan Hated Literature

Yeah yeah, tá fhíos agam gur dúirt mé^[1] that I wouldn’t be talking about christmas again for a while, ach then I spotted this great pic over at the Drawn blog and couldn’t resist. It is from Fleet Street Scandal if you wanna go take a look.

I’m a little tired this morning, went out for one drink last night and, as is so usual in these cases, had slightly more than one. Wasn’t terribly late, got home round half one I think, but then was chatting, as you do, to a couple of girls and so did not go to bed at my usual sensible time of somewhere around half 11.

Still, I made it into work and can take any grumpiness^[2] out on talking students, so it’s all good.

What isn’t so good is that this week is [fx: big-booming-trailer-type-voice] Budget Week. And while this is obviously important and will impact on my life can I just say now that I don’t care. And I won’t be reading the pages and pages and pages of newspapers devoted to this part of Fianna Fáil’s election campaign. Instead I think I’ll go do the lotto. After all it is tax free, isn’t it?

[cue another random point] Did anyone else catch any of this year’s Toy Show? And if so, is it just me, or is Pat getting even worse at the job? They should fly someone like Jonathan Ross in to do it, he likes toys and gadgets, and while some of his big-breast comments^[3] wouldn’t be appropriate for the wains watching, but who cares. He’d be great at showing off pooing dolls and talking robots and whatnot. Pat Kenny on the other hand, not so much with the charisma or enthusiasm or ability to be a human.

And yes, I did catch Dylan Moran^[4] on Jonathan’s show over the weekend H. I was actually watching^[5] it when your text arrived. And the phone was in d’other seomra and I didn’t get it til I went to bed, and then wasn’t arsed replying cause I figured it was too late. But that is all beside the point. Tá an agallamh available on You tube and cause I like to make things easy^[6] for the people who come here it is embedded under the cut.

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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 certain aspects were a little dated^[2] but he is hilarious. Especially the section about the children and how they are like midget drunks. Yeah that doesn’t sound funny, but believe me, it was.

Also, I finally got around to seeing The Village which was very good. Much better than the crap Signs, although it did suffer from the same over-use of music to make you think this is scary. I’m looking forward to his new Woman in the Water despite its trailer which makes it look incredibly boring.

Also, I stumbled across yet another meme-thing, again, stolen from The Grin Without a Cat and it says:

Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year).

List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year

So, 17th of Feb:

Three neat facts:
1. 1933 - its the end of prohibition in the States. Drink, get drunk. Its legal now.
2. 1958 - Saint Clare of Assisi is declared the patron saint of television. hee
3. 1996 - People are still smarter than computers as Kasparov defeats his supercomputer chess opponent Deep Blue

Two Births:
1. 1969 - Tuesday Night. No I’ve never heard of her, but I like the name.
2. 1982 - Paris Hilton. With such sad results

One Death
1. 1600 - Giordano Bruno, burned at the stake for heresy.

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