Archive for June, 2006
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
Das Fussballblog
There’s an ad running on RTE right now, where a series of cross-sport random pairings of presenters talk to each other about their own perspectives and opinions on sport. While I’m not going to try and recite the entire ad (those years are behind me - I’m in mental decline, aged 19), the first line [...]
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Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
A mini-rant to start the day
So yesterday I went to give blood at the IBTS clinic on D’Olier street. I should have gone a month ago tbh; had I not hung around I would have been able to get another donation in (in September) before I vacated for Germany.
But anyway, I show up, all is in order. Routine questions. “Sore [...]
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Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
Keane: Under The Iron Sea - reviewed
So, I gave the new Keane album, Under The Iron Sea, a listen last night. It’s stirring stuff, opening with a minute and five (seriously) of instrumental before Tom Chaplin kicks in with vocals, written by the pianist Tim Rice-Oxley, that really, after some examination, point to the huge burden of egotism that Chaplin carried [...]
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Monday, June 19th, 2006
The Arbitary Update from Desk 3092
Frankly, this deserves an update.
So; I moved back up in Dublin last night (those who didn’t notice my extended absence will have been unaware that I’d spent the last couple of weeks commuting to work; helping lift boxes between three houses in Meath - past, present and future abodes of my parents; sneezing something awful [...]
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Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
The Intro Track
So here I am/you are/we are/whatever: the 13th of June, 2006; mid-World Cup hysteria and pollen overload.
This is my blog - nothing much to look at, but I guess in time I’ll add my thoughts and musings, opinions if you will (although relatively speaking I’m not all that opinionated), on life in general, but probably [...]
