Archive for October, 2008
Why not do something brilliant today?
Posted by: | Comments“Let me throw you a hot spud… when you’re walking down a populated street and your gaze falls upon a disabled child being pushed by a resilient parent, your gaze is not of admiration or respect. No. If you’re like me, like most of the planet, you’ll feel a sudden sadness. You catch a smell of pathetic tragedy that such a child occurred and you make a concerted effort not to stare.
As you walk away, you say to yourself: ‘Oh please God, don’t ever let that happen to my babies.’ ”
The above was written by K8 the GR8 and is, in her own words, a cry for help. St. Catherine’s in County Wicklow is an organisation that does wonderful work to help children like K8 the GR8’s son. Unfortunately, it’s teetering on the edge of survival.
Read the post. Look into the eyes of her beautiful child. Be inspired. Spread the word. Do anything you can to help St. Catherine’s. Be brilliant.
Back of fag box film review – Burn after reading
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Text of review reads..
Supposed comedy caper following two witless Gym employees that find a cd with the memoirs of an ex CIA agent and decide to blackmail him for its return. If you want to look for the big Coen message in this, it’s basically that we are all dumb, witless, self absorbed idiots making our way through life and looking up or down at others we perceive to be more (or less) dumb, witless and self absorbed than ourselves.
Unfortunately, despite some great performances from a stellar cast, this is a film that just doesnt know what it wants to be and is outstanding for its use of the phrase What the Fuck?, which is how I felt after watching it…
2 Stars
Apprentice bits ahead of Week 6
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Darren is taking the reigns of the live blog this week, the fun and games kick off just before 9 and if you’ve never joined a live blog, you should because it’s better than shouting at the tv screen.
Jennifer Maguire denies rumours of her and Ryan Tubridy being an item. She reckons it will be one of the women that will emerge as the eventual winner and I think she’s right too. She also says Bill is nicer than Sir Alan.
PS – Jennifer – if you’re reading this – thanks for replying to that email I sent you.
Meanwhile, the ab fab Orla McAdam is apparantly being swept off her Dundalk feet by some guy called Dave. Sounds promising and sure to last a long time.
UnaRocks wasn’t happy that Orla went last week and though Stuart should have gone. She has also heard from a little bird that next week is the episode to watch “because a lot of shit goes down.” Maybe Una should host the live blog next week.
That’s about it for this week. Car selling is the task for this week – should be good. See you at Darren’s at 9.
This week’s header image on le craic
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It was a week of protest in Ireland. Students took time out from shopping in Dundrum and donned their best Dubes, A&F gear and Ugg boots to protest against the reintroduction of tuition fees. Little did mainstream media know that lazy shoites were only really tempted to get off their bebo riddled arses for some cheap drink in Temple Bar.
Not that any of the students in the above photograph (owned by Neil Dorgan and used here under the terms of a CC license) are Dube, Ugg, A&F gear wearing or Dundrum mall rats. Neither are any of them lazy shoites with bebo riddled arses and nor were they tempted into town for the free drink – it was all the others 
At the other end of the age spectrum, the pensioners arrived en masse to protest about the free medical card being taken away. The sympathy of the nation was with the pensioners, and rightly so. Although I have to say that certain political parties have whipped it up a bit more than needed, causing more confusion and worry for our senior citizens.
Teachers are next up for protesting to keep that old post budget convoy of discontent rumbling.
It’s all crunchalicious stuff. Pass us the popcorn there will ye and spare the fizzy drinks. We’re in for a grand epic that will leave the Lord of the Rings in the shade. The opening titles of the Fellowship of the Ring have only just ended.
Four Seasons Hotel Dublin wins the “It’s the credit crunch” punchline competition
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Times is tough as if anyone needs reminding. Of all the stories out there about the “downturn”, this one surely takes the biscuit.
The Four Seasons Hotel, a reasonably upmarket and plush hotel but let’s face it, it’s no Ritz Carlton eh chaps? Anyway, they apparantly employed a pianist to lash out tunes for their well heeled clientele. The Irish Daily Mail’s ‘Talk of the Town’ people spend so long in there that they noticed the absence of music on their last visit.
Enquiring where the piano man had gone and if he was on holidays, the were told “No, it’s due to the credit crunch. It’s weekends only now.”
Well they can feck off it they think I’m ever going to cross the door of that place and not have live piano music. I’ve higher standards than that. A night out in a hotel lobby just isn’t complete with piano music.
How many more potential customers have they just lost with this rash decision? Cheapskates.
