- There is something special about a great story read by a great voice. Such is the case with Bock’s, The Sailor, read by the late Jock Hunter. Listening to it, the adult I am supposed to be kept trying to work out the deeper meaning, the hidden message, but the child in me won out and I just sat back, closed my eyes, let my imagination take over and allowed myself to be carried on its magic.
- I add links to my Blog Picks now and again. Sometimes I drop one, usually because the site is not being updated. I hate blogwebs. Feel free to add me or drop me from your site. I don’t make money from this site so the number of hits I get doesn’t bother me in the slightest. In fact I’m still wondering why I am still doing something which began as a short term experiment merely out of an interest in the technology. Such is the way with addictions.
- The links added today are DerFen and Seanachie. Both deserve an apology: derfen is labelled DerFen because all lowercase doesn’t fit the style of my Blog Picks and The Pleasures of Underachievement labelled Seanachie as it’s just too long.
- You all love TV and radio ads? Yeah? Some are better than the programming. My personal favourites are the Amstel ones. You can view them on their site or just do a search on Youtube. Crap beer - great ads though. I recently met one of the lads who acted in them and it was more exciting than the time I met Bono and De Niro.
- Ads are particularly welcome when good programming goes bad. The normally excellent Nationwide on RTÉ1 this week did just that. A piece about unemployment in Killybegs had a travel agent whining that the highly skilled youth (welders, fitters, carpenters) of the area were being forced to emigrate to Australia to find work. Why wasn’t this woman asked why weren’t they moving to Belfast, Derry, Dublin? Are they not going to Australia simply out of choice? The interviewer also allowed one man to gloss over the fact that Killbegs is in this situation due to (likely illegal) overfishing.
- Bertie elected Taoiseach. Bertie went to Áras an Uachtaráin to get his seal of office. Bertie went back to Dáil Éireann. Bertie announced his cabinet. The cabinet went to the Áras to get their seals. I was thinking wouldn’t it be better to have Mary McAleese pop down to Kildare Street instead of the whole government travelling back and forth. Then I heard that the two Green ministers would be cycling to the Park. Wonderful. What a picture - Two bucks on bikes with Garda motorcycle outriders. But it rained, so everyone took the bus over to Mary’s for tea and seals. Well, I think they did - There’s a pic of Mary Harney getting off a bus outside the Áras - I assume it wasn’t just for her.
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