Arrived safely but very tired after a long flight. About to hop in the shower and then go for dinner. BA was ok, not as good as Virgin. The hotel however us up to the same standard as before and this time I have a nice room and a view at the front of the hotel 🙂

Just to add I spent quite a while last night in near hysterics. Frumpy the Clown Book 2 by Judd Winick was the funniest thing I had read since book one. I laughed a lot.

Right I’m going to D.C. in the morning. More than likely less updates over the next few days. Time isn’t going to be really my own and not sure how often I’ll have a net connection.

The tune on the RI:SE ads on C4 is “Holes” by Mercury Rev. I want it.

“Could I have a couple of asprin or a weapon to kill some people”

I love this show so much.

ACROSS Europe last week, there was horror at the success of Jean-Marie Le Pen in the first round of the French presidential election. But in rural Cork, a history teacher was quietly celebrating.
“Of course that has to please us,” said Aine Ni Chonaill, a general election candidate for Immigration Control Platform. “Obviously, when you are strongly in favour of immigration control, as we are, you are always happy to see someone put it forward successfully on the political agenda.”

Her running mate, Ted Neville, saw the vote for Le Pen as a great expression of democracy. “We are trying to give similar voice to people who have similar concern,” said the Cork South Central candidate.
Like the homeless man on Dublin’s Moore Street last Thursday who shouted at a group of Labour canvassers: “Why don’t you get me off the streets instead of giving it all to the niggers.”

Congratulations. I can’t remember a time in my life where just for a moment I’ve not been proud to be Irish. Now I can.

Full story @ Sunday Times

Anyways drinks last night didn’t happen because of family commitments. So a couple of pints this afternoon was in order. It was good to see Tom again, it had been at least two years since the last time I saw him. In fact it would have been a few weeks just before I left Dublin. A quick couple of pints and a couple of hours catching up was good.

“For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: ‘It might have been!'”
-John Greenleaf Whittier, “Maud Muller”

Angel is still going well. Not as good as last weeks episode but still very solid. 24 kinda took a down turn in the last 5 minutes. Still that whole cell scene could have been so much more interesting.

When we first started to get Sky TV in Dublin in the very late 80s and the early 90s we didn’t get the movie channels as a standard package. But we got Sky One and they would run ads for the movies on the movie channels on a regular basis. I saw an ad one night for a submarine movie, and it blew me away. I wanted to see it. Over the course of a week or so I saw the ad many times and each time made me want to see the movie even more. This was my first introduction to “The Hunt For Red October“. There was no way I could, we didn’t have a VCR and never signed up for the movie channels. While I’m not exactly sure I believe that I read the book shortly after that and only saw the movie on normal tv a few years later. It stands out as one of my favourite movies and indeed book. Since then I’ve read most if not all of Tom Clancy’s novels. Some are better than others, but the movie adaptations have generally been disappointing with “Red October” being the only exception. Anyways the point behind all this is that it’s on at the moment. I was bashing around after “Law and Order” and found it so am quite enjoying it. It’s a movie that seems to age very well. Its also really good to see James Earl Jones. I’ve always enjoyed his performances and he does a damn fine job as Greer; “Now, you understand Commander, that torpedo did not self-destruct. You heard it hit the hull, and I..was never here”

On the subject of “CSI” and “Law and Order” are my guilty pleasures on Saturday nights recently. I use to watch “Law and Order” but dropped off because of bad scheduling a long time ago. While Saturday night is not usually good I’m managing to see it every now and again. CSI on the otherhand is repeated on Mondays and that’s how I got into it. It’s become a must watch over the past few weeks that I’ve been following it.

Speaking of guilty pleasures, I have also started following “Teachers” on Wednesday nights on C4. It’s nothing special at all, typical drama comedy thing, but it’s damn sarcastic and I like that.

And new Starman for the flight is now check 🙂 More to come on todays comics at a later time.