Posted in dublin, France, football on Mar 25th, 2010 1 Comment »
This may be more the territory of our observant friends at dangerhere.com as, I warn you in advance, it contains a raw unedited Hamiltonism. It’s a video posted on YouTube by BohsTV which is also available on the Bohs official site, where I spotted it first. It documents the first, and possibly only, […]
Posted in fuckwits, France on Feb 24th, 2009 17 Comments »
[ Success story Jacques SEGUELA talks Rolex on French TV -
Daily Motion Screencap ]
I’ve never had much time for PR people, spindoctors, publicists or such botton-dwellers (sic). A controversial remark made over here last week hasn’t done a great deal to warm my heart to them. Jacques SEGUELA (pictured above) - PR adviser […]
Posted in France on Oct 30th, 2008 No Comments »
[ Photo / Text extract from ‘Marianne’ magazine ]
Dublin Opinion appears to be passing through a negative motivation system at present *. We’re all too devastated at the performance of our shares portfolios, I suspect. I have myself managed to just pull my head out of the mental sludge thanks to two factors. […]
Posted in Lisbon Treaty, satire, France on Jun 28th, 2008 No Comments »
DISCLAMER : A week old post I couldn’t finish/put up due to dodgy French wiring having frazzled my ADSL modem - whenever will they let those competent Polish electricians in ??
The virulence of visual satire on the continent, or at least on the Latin part of it, has already come up on this blog. Being […]
Posted in Television, France on Jun 20th, 2008 3 Comments »
[PPDA - As ‘Guignols de l’info’ Presenter via infos-du-net.com ]
As I wait for my copy of this week’s ‘Charlie Hebdo’ to arrive (containing, no doubt some wry and raw observations on our recent No vote) I am reminded of a news story that held the French media’s attention for a couple of days […]
Posted in cinema, France on Mar 5th, 2008 4 Comments »
I appear to be becoming somewhat of the obituarist about these parts. If only this ageing French population would slow up a bit on the dying ! During the latter part of February news came through of the passing away at the age of 85 of one of France’s better known postwar novelists - Alain […]
Posted in Bastards, Banks, France on Jan 28th, 2008 5 Comments »
I am to lose my job this week as the company I work for pass into liquidation. For the last couple of months, they have been slowly suffocated by the French banking sector - including Société Générale. To be fair to the latter, they were the bank that backed them the longest and the company […]
Posted in France, politics/world on Jan 16th, 2008 No Comments »
I mentioned in my previous post that I had managed to unearth 2 pieces of good news to comfort me in this passage between a very shit year and another that promises to be even shitter. The first was Edwyn Collins proving himself to be the new Lazarus - but with a better voice […]
Posted in France, Media on Dec 20th, 2007 No Comments »
I’m often forced to reflect that Yeats’ short and late poem ‘Politics’ just about sums up the unhappy lot of an ageing Irishman in this world. I believe the poem is set against the 30s political engagement of most of his contemporaries in exchange for which Yeats in the poem would gladly swap holding a […]
Posted in Sodgers of Destiny, Irish History, France on Jun 12th, 2007 2 Comments »
As I skim through women’s magazines in the dentist’s waiting room hoping to happen upon a 15 page lingerie special I can’t help noticing their propensity towards giving 10 tips for all eventualities one might come across in life.
Usually it’s ‘…to keep your man’ or ‘…to slim down for summer’. Recently, they might have […]
