Posted in cinema on Feb 13th, 2009 No Comments »
Always find something to chuckle at on Graham Linehan’s ‘blog’ - secondlast time we looked my kids and I were cul par terre (as they might put it) at 5 minutes of footage of some appalling American woman demonstrating a mouth exerciser (I kid youse not). Yesterday I took my weekly peek and […]
Posted in great irish bands, dublin on Feb 13th, 2009 25 Comments »
[the disappointingly quiff-free Gorehounds from irishrock.org ]
Mentioning any of the bands to follow makes perfect sense to me following on from the death last week of the Cramps’ Lux Interior. My original intention, a couple of months ago, had been to post on The Gorehounds - often summed up as Dublin’s very own version […]
Posted in Ex Members of Fall, capitalism, fuckwits, Fianna Fáil, Banks, Economy, Greens on Feb 11th, 2009 2 Comments »
Oh baby. I’m sitting here watching the news and laughing my ass off at the latest shenanigans involving Ireland’s best and beautiful. You know the ones who have fucking FLEECED this country and will continue to do so for many a year to come. These people are monkey dung, and yet, if I remember correctly, […]
Posted in Ireland on Feb 10th, 2009 No Comments »
Just to let you know that I’ve just published an interview with Patrick Cockburn on Irish Left Review. He’s been reporting on Iraq since 1979, most recently for the Independent and has written a number of books on the subject, including The Occupation: War, resistance and daily life in Iraq and Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the […]
Posted in capitalism, Ex Members of Fall, fuckwits, Fianna Fáil, Economy on Feb 8th, 2009 2 Comments »
It was impressive. A strong passionate defence, a realistic assessment or where we are (mired in recession if you must know) and a smidgen of hope and determination… fighting talk. And there were borrowings from Obama especially in that exhortation with its effective repetition: “Jobs, jobs, jobs must be our priority”. (Harry McGee, Irish Times, […]
Posted in capitalism, Ex Members of Fall, Marx, Economy on Feb 8th, 2009 No Comments »
No dodgy quotes from Karl Marx here, just Brendan M Cooney’s explanation of Capital.
Enjoy.
Posted in dublin on Feb 7th, 2009 4 Comments »
I found a news report towards the end of the week from up there a slight bit perplexing. Early on Thursday morning a double-decker passing along Amiens St. managed to somehow have its upper deck sheered off in a collision with a tree RTE Report from 05/02 / IT report from same […]
Posted in obituary, music on Feb 7th, 2009 1 Comment »
Donagh is correct in pointing out on a recent post of his that I am the morbid banshee rock obit specialist of this blog. This weather, it seems that the greats are passing away on a weekly basis. Latest in the list I found out about last night through my very own Poison Ivy - […]
Posted in Ex Members of Fall, podcast, blogging on Feb 6th, 2009 No Comments »
Part one of Josh Weedon’s most recent venture, Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog. Apparently, it’s been out for the guts of a year, but I only came across it tonight.
Enjoy.
Posted in Economy, Media, blogging on Feb 4th, 2009 7 Comments »
Perhaps this shouldn’t be a post at all, but I decided to publish it because a comment I left on the Irish Times business blog about it hasn’t been published – yet.
Apparently there is a quote doing the rounds on the internet which purports to be taken from Karl Marx’s Capital (or if you […]
