Archive for the 'Rants' Category
Cock the vote
Friday, April 11th, 2008Young Fine Gael have just launched their poster campaign for the Lisbon Treaty and its vaguely risqué nature is causing quite a stir… well, not really, but a few people are talking about it.
Young Fine Gael’s press release on the campaign states that the organisation aims to “Excite Electorate on Lisbon Treaty” however as Damien […]
There Will Be Blood at the Dublin International Film Festival
Sunday, February 17th, 2008I was lucky enough to have a ticket to last night’s Irish premier of ‘There Will Be Blood’, shown as part of the Dublin International Film Festival in the Savoy cinema.
I won’t review the film - there are plenty of professionals out there to do that - but I will give my opinion of it. […]
How Kevin Myers is the Bill O’Reilly of the Irish media
Thursday, July 19th, 2007I don’t read Kevin Myers’ columns; not anymore anyway. The simple reason is that they generally provoke a deep-rooted rage in me due to their ignorance, simplicity and disconnect with reality or rationality. To my mind, this reaction is exactly what Myers aims for and as such I increasingly suspect that not even he […]
Rant: UPS are useless
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007I’m going to take a page out of Damien’s book and rant about some terrible service I’ve been enduring lately.
A week or so ago my iPod shuffle kicked the bucket having worked perfectly up until then. I did the usual troubleshooting recommended by the Apple site and got nowhere so decided to get it replaced […]
Rants: Changing a film’s setting in an attempt to pander
Saturday, May 19th, 2007I recently picked up Regina Spektor’s Begin To Hope, an acquisition largely based on the opening track ‘Fidelity‘ which piqued my interest in her after just one brief listen. As tends to happen when I listen to a new song or album, I go searching for more information, for lyrics, backgrounds and meaning.
It turns out […]
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