Y So Psycho?
Posted on January 29, 2009 - Filed Under Film | Leave a Comment
Government and Global Warming
Posted on January 27, 2009 - Filed Under Animals, Environment/Conservation, Politics | 1 Comment
I tend to prattle on about the virtues of democracy quite a lot, but articles like these make me think that life in a green-minded police state would have considerable upsides. Maybe another humdinger of a world war might help matters too, if it wiped out enough of the global population. Or some kind of [...]
Threadless Rips Me Off
Posted on January 27, 2009 - Filed Under Blogging | Leave a Comment
Old blog post. New Threadless design.
Exclamation Marks, “Novel” & An Admission
Posted on January 26, 2009 - Filed Under Animals, Blogging, College, Language, Life-In-General | Leave a Comment
This post contains a whole lot of misdirected aggression, but I really fucking hate it when people abuse exclamation marks. Here’s a prime example from a student email: Please be advised that Dr Lucy James requested that the Signpost session on Friday 30th January is from 09.30 – 10.00! Kindly amend this in your timetable, [...]
‘The Wrestler’ by Bruce Springsteen
Posted on January 23, 2009 - Filed Under Film, Music | Leave a Comment
Following on from the last post, after having read some blogosphere reaction to the Oscar nominations, and after having seen the film earlier today, I felt compelled to post this YouTube video of Springsteen’s song for The Wrestler. It fits the mood of the film perfectly, but still somehow missed out on a nomination.
Oscar Farce
Posted on January 23, 2009 - Filed Under Film | 3 Comments
I don’t think of myself as a film connoisseur, but I find it odd, perplexing and not a little outrageous that neither The Wrestler nor The Dark Knight are in contention for the Best Film award. Granted, Mickey Rourke is a nominee in the Best Actor Category and Heath Ledger is expected to posthumously scoop [...]
Arsene Wenger, Are You Mad?
Posted on January 22, 2009 - Filed Under Football | 1 Comment
I really hope that this is some sick joke, because if I was Arsenal’s manager I’d be packing Eboue‘s bags myself right now. He’s an abysmal player and has absolutely no place in an Arsenal team. Frankly I don’t think he’s even a Premiership player, and yet somehow he manages to turn out semi-regularly for [...]
Pingu
Posted on January 22, 2009 - Filed Under Animals, Music | Leave a Comment
Best television show ever. Even David Hasselhoff’s a fan.
“Former President George W. Bush”
Posted on January 21, 2009 - Filed Under American Politics | Leave a Comment
I just saw that in print for the first time. Feels good, doesn’t it?
Torres on Kaka-to-City Transfer Saga
Posted on January 17, 2009 - Filed Under Football | Leave a Comment
From Football365: “It would be a fantastic contract, yes, but there are other things more important than money. A player wants to be remembered for what he has won. “Imagine 10 years after you stop playing, you go back, you look around, you are not in any picture, you have no medals, no trophies; it [...]
Garrison Keillor on Novel Writing
Posted on January 16, 2009 - Filed Under Media | Leave a Comment
I came home slightly toasted tonight and happened upon this corker of an article by the aforementioned in Thursday’s Irish Times. A deep-down aversion to A-R-T is one big reason half of America stays away from fiction. They’re afraid they’ll come across a sentence like: “She looked out the window and saw the reflection of [...]
This is why we can’t have nice things
Posted on January 13, 2009 - Filed Under Media, Video Games | 3 Comments
From the BBC: A US teenager killed his mother and wounded his father in revenge after they took away his violent computer game, a judge has ruled. The defence team for Daniel Petric, 17, had argued his addiction to the Halo 3 game, in which players shoot invading aliens, had made him insane. But the [...]
Israel Protests in UCC
Posted on January 13, 2009 - Filed Under College, International Politics | 1 Comment
I understand the sentiment, but what good is shouting slogans on campus supposed to do for the people of Gaza? Also, why is it that only Israel draws these kind of protests? I don’t recall any anti-Chinese protests last year when China started cracking heads in Tibet. I don’t recall any protests against the Burmese [...]
Still Got It
Posted on January 12, 2009 - Filed Under Internets, Music | Leave a Comment
Nine Inch Nails – March Of The Pigs (Lights In The Sky Tour, Multi-Cam) from Edgar Desrives on Vimeo. NIN performing ‘March of the Pigs’ during their 2008 Lights in the Sky tour. Trent wanted to make a DVD from tour footage, but due to complications with his former record label Interscope it couldn’t be [...]
Dating Video
Posted on January 12, 2009 - Filed Under Funny | Leave a Comment
While I’m pretty sure that this has got to be fake, I still laughed at it quite a lot. Hat-tip to Wheelypops.
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