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Category: Irish Times
This is Funny via Tripping Along The Ledge,
Doctor: You have a lettuce leaf growing out of your arse.
Patient: Jesus Christ. Is this serious? Doctor: I’m afraid it’s just the tip of the...
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What a douchebag! What a slimey line! via Tripping Along The Ledge,
It’s slightly counterintuitive, but as an interviewer, I’ve always found that the richer and more successful a person is, the less likely they are to be an arsehole. They’re at ease with themselves, I suppose, and therefore usually at ease with you. (Also they have PR people who can squelch you like a bug.)
On Thursday night, I spoke to Dave Matthews, of the Dave Matthews Band, who are playing the Point next month. They’re not an act I particularly care for, admittedly. But he was a pretty cool, self-aware guy and there was one question I really wanted to ask him. I didn’t broach it till the very end of the interview, in case he get offended or tell me to go fuck myself…
[he's talking about Mick Jagger playing piano for him once in a hotel room in...
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Go Speed Dater, Go via Tripping Along The Ledge,
Went speed dating the other night. Came home, sat up for 12 hours straight and wrote a 1,500 word feature on it for Valentine’s Day issue of Irish Times magazine. Then slept pretty much 24 hours. Did all of this, incidentally, while in the throes of the most severe vomiting and going-to-the-bathroom-more-frequently-than-I-would-wish bug I have ever endured. I’ve had this thing since Monday morning and was terrified that, since I picked my niece Lola up from the creche on Monday afternoon, I might have passed it on to her. Now it looks more likely that she picked it up from one of the other kids there and passed it on to me when I picked her Friday. Stupid, disease-ridden babies – some day I will have my revenge on all of you!
Anyway, non-stop vomiting notwithstanding, I...
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This is Funny via Tripping Along The Ledge,
One of the most hilarious segments they ever ran on Late Night With Conan O’Brien. “Here’s a spoiler… you will die...
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King Charlies, Dame Street, Dublin 2 via Tripping Along The Ledge,
Just witnessed An Taoiseach Brian Cowan being escorted from this restaurant on Dame Street by two bouncers and his driver at approx. 1.15am tonight. Hopped into government Merc parked (I can only assume illegally) a few yards down the street....
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“Meanwhile, government ministers and members of the Health Service Executive were locked in crisis talks, and had to be rescued by the fire brigade…” via Tripping Along The Ledge,Media Round Up – Saturday 30th Jan 2010 via Robert Francis Wine Blog,
Irish Times – John Wilson
BOTTLES OF THE WEEK
Bürgerspital Würzburger Stein Riesling Kabinett Trocken 2008, 12%, €19.99
Fresh and lively with zingy green apple fruits and a light spritz. Perfect with crab salad, or fishcakes. Stockists: Holland’s, Bray; Karwig Wines, Carrigaline and karwigwines.ie; Eugene’s of Kenmare; Cases Wine Warehouse, Galway.
Bürgerspital Würzburger Pfaffenberg Silvaner Trocken 2007, 11.5%, €17.99 Lovely light melon fruits with a delicious, subtle spiciness and a clean dry finish. Try it with lighter fish dishes. Stockists: Holland’s, Bray; Karwig Wines, Carrigaline and karwigwines.ie; Eugene’s of Kenmare; Cases Wine Warehouse.
TWO UNDER €12
San Pedro Castillo de Molina Viognier 2007, 14.5%, €11.99
Just the sort of white wine you need...
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Going to College 2010 via The Learning Blog - Courses.ie, Yesterday was the initial deadline for CAO applications. But students can also use the change-of-mind process to change their options before the July 1st deadline.New figures released last night reveal there are just under two candidates for every place in our colleges and universities, according to today's Irish Independent. These are to include the unprecedented number of mature students (more than 15,000) seeking college places this year because of the economic downturn; the surge in the number of Leaving Certificate students, after years of decline, up by an estimated 2,000; new social welfare rules whereby those on jobseeker’s allowances risk the loss of benefit unless they are in education or training; and a directive from the Higher Education Authority that staff numbers must...
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“I’m loving these numbers” via Tripping Along The Ledge,
New figures published this week show this magazine’s circulation holding steady at 36,898, down slightly on 36,938 last quarter. But when seasonal and other miscellaneous factors are allowed for, that amounts to an impressive 5,924,094 readers per month – an exceptionally strong performance in a country of just over four million people. (The balance is thought to be made up by immigrants and undercover al-Qaida operatives entering this jurisdiction illegally in order to read the trendy magazine.) The launch pad for Mongrel’s enormous success is clearly its €0.00 retail price. And now that low-low price tag could be slashed even further. Plans to give away 25c with future issues are already well advanced. But, while such a move would guarantee big gains in the Vagrant &...
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Turning you off your cereal via Xbox4NappyRash,
I'm impotent. Or maybe omnipotent. Or omnipresent perhaps, I forget. Some one of those anyway, but basically I'm in many places today. Here, and somewhere deep in the bowels of today's Irish Times health section.Early last year they featured an article about our attempts to conceive, and today they ran a short catch-up piece for the sane people with jobs who don’t read here every day.Complete with picture that makes me look like an anaemic wino with a glandular problem, and a title that will nauseate many, today's article can be found here.For the lazy among us, the original feature was run last March and a follow up based on the reaction it generated ran a few days later.As you were.Far more entertaining are the guesses being placed here. Go on, give it a shot....
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Fintan O’Toole will visit UL tomorrow via Stephen Kinsella,
Tomorrow Fintan O’Toole, Irish Times Deputy Editor, Author, Angry chap, and all-around ledge-bag will be giving a seminar from 4.30 to 6 in GL1-01 in the Library. Everyone interested in Irish public policy and public life should head along, it will be well worth......
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Stop me if you think that you’ve heard this one before via Tripping Along The Ledge, “It’s like a cross between going back to university and joining a religious cult,” reckons Steve Berry from Hertfordshire, as he surveys the scene. I’d have said a “rockabilly Star Trek convention” myself, but we won’t split hairs. Read the rest of this article...
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Want to make some easy money? via John McGuirk,
Get thee to a bookies and get odds on the Irish media totally ignoring the following story. Then bet your house on it:
“The United Nations’ expert panel on climate change based claims about ice disappearing from the world’s mountain tops on a student’s dissertation and an article in a mountaineering magazine…..
…..The revelation will cause fresh embarrassment for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which had to issue a humiliating apology earlier this month over inaccurate statements about global warming….
…It comes after officials for the panel were forced earlier this month to retract inaccurate claims in the IPCC’s report about the melting of Himalayan glaciers…..
…Researchers have expressed...
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Salinger Dead via Tripping Along The Ledge,
I won’t attempt to eulogize the guy, but for the record (from this blog) here’s a funny letter he wrote to a fan, Maeve Binchy, Shay Healy and myself talking about him on the radio and that unfortunate run-in with my Auntie Geraldine....
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Fuck your coloring book! via Tripping Along The Ledge,
I’ve said it before, but I don’t mind saying it again. I would do anything to be friends with Kanye West. The guy is (in the best way possible) completely and utterly insane… and he wants the whole world to know it.
If you haven’t seen it already, his latest all-caps, stream of consciousness online hissy fit (culminating in that surprise denunciation of colouring books) is really a hoot:
WHEN IT’S ALL SAID AND DONE, REMEMBER THE FEARLESS, REMEMBER THE DREAMERS, REMEMBER THOSE WHO REPRESENT THE GHETTO…THE FAIRY TALE OF NOTHING TO SOMETHING. I’M BRIEFLY SADDENED BY NEGATIVE COMMENTS, BUT I HAVE TO REMEMBER THOSE PEOPLE ARE SCARED, INCAPABLE OR JUST PLAIN IDIOTS. WE ARE THE FUCKING ROCK STARS BABY. NO COCAINE, JUST LIFE MY NIGGAS!! NO COCAINE, JUST...
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You know what I am? Clairvoyant. via John McGuirk,
Two days ago, before President Obama made his State of the Union address, I tweeted:
Tonight, Obama delivers his second State of the Union. Prediction: No matter what he says, Madam will declare it a success.
I even tried to predict some of the things she might write:
“Laying the gauntlet down to his Republican opponents, The President delivered a stirring defence of his agenda”
“It contained moments of deep sobriety, demonstrating a resolve that Mr. Obama’s opponents may have wrongly doubted”
So, did I get it right? Judge for yourself:
“A combative and distinctly more populist president used his first State of the Union speech to Congress on Wednesday to stiffen the resolve of his Democratic Party and to warn Republicans that their obstructionism would...
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But what about the straights? via Stephen Spillane,
Image by gelinh via Flickr
A lot of the talk surrounding the Civil Partnerships Bill is concentrating on the aspects concerned with the rights of gay partners. For a change it is the consequences for hetrosexual (and homosexual may I add) of the other part of the bill to do with cohabitation is being largely ignore.
Carol Coulter had a very good analysis is yesterdays Irish Times about this. It is well worth reading.
This bill will affect more peoples lives then you think. I personally know plenty of people that this act will affect. Make sure you know what it does.
Relationships are about to get more legalistic. Is that what we want?
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Faith Alive via Tripping Along The Ledge,
1. What’s the difference between a saint and a masochist? Not a whole lot, provided you’re the Pope.
2. “The Lord directed that I go to the sun tanning salon and get sun tanned more evenly on their suntanning beds.” A fascinating (and, on balance, pretty sympathetic) snapshot of life inside the polygamist Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints from this month’s National Geographic. 3. Scientology cris-o-tunity in Haiti. (But where the hell’s Tom Cruise? Come on Tom, you just know you’re the only person who can help… It’s KSW, baby!!)
4. Huh? “Observant Jewish men are required to place a box on their head and tie another box to their arm as part of their morning prayers.”
5. Admittedly, this last one has absolutely...
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Karl Spain Wants to Eat a Woman* via Tripping Along The Ledge,
Been getting a bit of flack over my interview with comedian Karl Spain in last Saturday’s Irish Times last summer. “So mean to poor Karl Spain,” says one of his distraught fans. “He’s a lovely guy.” My friend Mark takes the opposite view. “Jesus, Butler,” he writes. “You could have gotten away with calling Karl Spain fat a few more times… ‘Fat-faced funnyman Karl Spain’… ‘Karl Spain Wants to Eat a Woman’… Something subtle like that…” For the record, there was no offense intended or, I hope, taken. Besides, Karl Spain is big enough to stand up for himself. Ba dum kssht. (*allegedly)
You can read the interview here....
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