Posted in TV, Media on Aug 18th, 2011 12 Comments »
Flicking over to TV3 last night, and watching Declan Ganley getting brown-nosed by a four-fifths of a panel that included a former employee of his in Libertas - his professional relationship with Kevin O’Connell went unannounced of course.
Posted in The Wire, TV on Feb 6th, 2010 No Comments »
There is a theory that all TV takes place within the mind of Tommy Westphall.
The idea is that characters (as opposed to simply actors) cross-over from different shows, reappearing and disappearing as thoughts in Tommy’s head.
There is a map of this universe, available here.
For my own small part, here’s a video showing the […]
Posted in TV, Media on Oct 7th, 2009 11 Comments »
Okay, I don’t have any particular insight into the current situation, what with John O’Donoghue resigning, and the Green’s saying they wouldn’t have supported him anyway, and the special Green Party convention on Saturday which is supposed to signal whether or not they will stay in Government following an unsatisfactory outcome of the negotiations for […]
Posted in Zombies, Film, TV, Media on Aug 26th, 2009 6 Comments »
I don’t know about you, but for the past couple of weeks and perhaps for longer, zombies have been popping up everywhere. Not literally, of course. Zombies don’t exist. They are creatures from popular culture created to scare ourselves by praying on our deepest fears - not only the fear of death itself, but also […]
Posted in Film, TV, Media on May 8th, 2009 4 Comments »
A curio this. In the Readers Recommend: Songs about Revolution thread on that Guardian site that I look at now and again, I came across a track ‘When The Revolution Comes’ by The Last Poets that a commenter says is the inspiration for Gil-Scott Heron’s The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
Check it out, niggaz. […]
Posted in TV on Mar 22nd, 2009 2 Comments »
Just watched the series finale.
Wow.
Posted in The Wire, TV on Mar 13th, 2009 No Comments »
One of the best TV series in the last number of years has been The Wire, which used to be aired rather erratically on TG4, with the fifth and final season going out late last year. So erratically was the airing, in fact, that I never managed to follow the series in succession, inevitably missing […]
Posted in obituary, memory, TV on Dec 10th, 2008 No Comments »
And when Bagpuss was asleep,
All his friends were asleep.
The mice were ornaments on the mouse organ.
Gabriel and Madeleine were just dolls.
Professor Yaffle was just an old wooden bookend in the shape of a woodpecker.
Even Bagpuss himself, once he was asleep, was just an old, saggy cloth cat,
Baggy, and a bit loose at the seams,
But Emily […]
Posted in TV, Media on May 27th, 2008 No Comments »
As everyone knows the Irish health system is in crisis. It is the responsibility of every right thinking citizen to be as informed as possible about the nature of this crisis and to campaign both individually and collectively to have the problems corrected by our slovenly self-serving government. At the very least, every Irish person […]
Posted in irish culture, TV, Media on Mar 12th, 2008 28 Comments »
Dermod Moore has done us a great service. I missed last night’s RTE documentary Fairytale of Kathmandu on Donegal poet Cathal Ó Searcaigh and how he apparently sexually exploited young Nepalese men. I caught the end in which Ó Searcaigh seemed to condemn himself. In a long, apparently unedited, sequence where the documentary film-maker Neasa […]
