- Breakingnews.ie ran a piece yesterday that mentions 13-year-old Saoirse Ronan’s nomination for Best Supporting Actress in Atonement. It explores the life of writer Briony Tallis and looks at her character at three ages – 13, 18 and 77 – with separate actresses for each part. You would kind of expect that, wouldn’t you? Saoirse, with a life-long interest in acting, played the part of the young fledgling writer. Life-long? She’s only a child for fcuk sake! But thanks for letting me know she doesn’t play the 77-year-old - I’d been cheering on the granny until now.
- In other mejia: The Sunday Times reports on a study by the American Journal of Public Health that finds intelligent people are at higher risk of suffering from alcohol problems as they tend to have more stressful careers. I dropped into my local yesterday to be met with hoards of half-pissed t-shirts ranting on about their team’s success/being cheated by the referee - teams they have never seen other than on TV - and thought about inviting the folks from the American Journal to take a second look. It made me smile.
- Smiling wasn’t difficult as the weather this weekend put me in good humour anyway. Saturday was a balmy 15° with sunshine. (4.5 hours of sunshine to be exact). It was like spring. Every bird I seen had a sledgehammer in its beak. Off to erect a planning permission sign I reckon. Spring is definitely in the air. With the birds. Time for new beginnings. Over the next while a new category will appear on the blog: Poetry Middle. (I can’t fit it in a corner). All poetry will be plain and simple and in Hiberno-English and Irish. None of that Aosdána convoluted claptrap. And there’ll be no mention of young Nepalese boys.
- As a taster, and seeing as Saint Vaseline’s day is this week:
Roses is red, violets is blue
Some poems rhyme
But this one doesn’t
So it doesn’t
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