Dustin the Turkey: he’s not real
One of the odder aspects of this whole Eurovision thing is that Dustin the Turkey has, at times, been playing it straight. Here’s today’s Morning Ireland interview in which Aine Lawlor interviews a man...
View ArticleR-R-Ronaldo is a d-d-diver
Last night’s ITV tee-up for the Champions League final included a mash-up in which DJ Yoda mixed and scratched Chelsea and Man U footage with a few tunes. Sounds like a cool enough idea. Yet, as soon...
View ArticleWhere I’ll be tonight. And Sunday night.
UPDATE: Thanks to Green Ink for capturing this great moment from last night’s show. Which I wasn’t at. So Bruce had better repeat himself tonight. I don’t care what the crowd thinks.
View ArticleSome weekend reading and listening
Have a good weekend, everyone. What would the universe look like in time ran backwards, asks Scientific American. Slate.com on the perils of running for US President if you have an unusual name. While...
View ArticleSaturday column: Pitching it right
WEDNESDAY NIGHT WAS a long, long night of Champions League football and an even longer night of football coverage, although this applied more to RTÉ than to ITV or Sky Sports. If the stats had popped...
View ArticleBruce Springsteen
Jim has a fine round up on his blog, but I’m too pumped up not to say a few things about Bruce’s Dublin gigs too. - Highlights for me? Badlands was great, and Livin’ in the Future (as Jim has said this...
View ArticleHey, ape man!
As spotted by Niall on James McInerney’s blog, here’s a Creationism event in Lucan Be amazed by the “Colourful PowerPoint Illustrations”! Marvel at the madness of the “Ape Man”! Be baffled by the “Frog...
View ArticleReading
Lloyd Jones’s The Book of Fame, an enjoyable, and often beautiful, novella which gives a fictionalised account of the 1905 tour to the Britain and Ireland by the All Blacks. Jones previously wrote...
View ArticlePresent Tense blog: RIP
So, we come to the end. I’ve been writing this blog since April of last year, the original idea being to post my weekly column outside of the paywall, and to throw up a few bits and pieces every now...
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