Filled with enthusiasm for blogging with my new keyboard, I’m stumped for weighty topics. So, I’m going to just copy the presiding member over at the Midnight Court and blog a bit of telly.
Prime Time Budget special
RTE 1
10.15pm: “Let’s move on to stamp duty”. Not an enticing start. The vacuum in between Brian Cowen and Richard Bruton wants to hear something about the Sunday Indo’s obsessional difficulties.
Cowen is explaining why his introduction of a tax cut for very expensive houses is just what’s needed because FG talking about problems in the housing market during the election made them come true.
This seems like an awsome power Richard Bruton has been gifted by the Minister. Can we have him talk about other things? I have a niumber of things I’d like to have magically happen.
How to lose a man in 10 days
RTE 1
It lost me in less than 4 minutes.
CSI:NY
RTE2
Without the gaudy lighting of CSI (original Vegas flavour) and my thirst for the tiny suggestions of personal information on the plot mechanisms who pass for characters in the CSI universe. I just can’t care about these New Yorkers and their flashy murders.
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What’s on the Playboy channel?
Did you see last night’s Prime Time with Gavin Lambe Murphy and Pat Carey? At one point Miriam said “Speaking of gack, Gavin, you’re mates with Katy French, are you not?”
Are you doing this on the Nokia?
Yes. Complete with new bluetooth keyboard.
Yes. Complete with new bluetooth keyboard.
Now onto the News on RTE 2.
Yesterday’s TV3 report on Katy French was a revolting piece of vampirism. They even had a woman sitting outside her hospital waiting for statements on a coma patient.
I await, with a shudder, the morality-tale-for-our-time schtick that Sinso hacks will run to this weekend, rather than doing the decent thing and just doing away with themselves on live TV, for the nation’s amusement.
The news is spreading its usual spray of numbers and graphics at me to explain how national finance and economics are eally just a different form of borrowing from your mates.
Intigued to hear of the end of your Right Hook tenure. Was it a result of an argument ‘tween yourself and George on the merits of playing phase-based rugby in the modern professional climate? I knew your strong views on the matter would bring you into conflict with him in the end.
If I’d have thought of this earlier I’d have covered the latest episode of Glas Vegas, where Eoghan Harris actually made small children cry on air.
Re: Right Hook. A small collection of things made it untenable. Its a pity, as I enjoyed doing it. But they wanted monthly meetings and an agreed panel with dates and I just can’t give that kind of advance committment.
Chidren are notoriously soft on the national question. Clear-eyed thinkers must do the dirty but necessary work of ridding them of their illusions.
He was all in favour of the French lady in a leotard who had a speciality act involving the manipulation of a hula hoop. Who said vaudaville died?
If vaudeville was still a going concern in Dublin, I’d be in there every week to see the latest plate-spinner or unicyclist. And none of yer post-ironic vaudeville neither, where everyone has too many piercings and the music is all American punk bands with fat bearded bass players in shorts
Over to TV3 news to see what they made of the Budget.
Hard to concentrate as the colour on the screen has been hyper-saturated. As they like primary colours at the best of times this is a threat to my corneas.
Apparently, it was the mystical greens who made the car tax changes happen.
Give me a man in a straw boater any day.