Modern Slime

Well, it finally happened — Bob released his new album and it's... Well, it's alright is all.

The major problem is that it bears a remarkable similarity to the last one and some of those tunes have been used more than once in his lengthy career. Is that a minor quibble? I dunno — but it's MY quibble.

So there.

In other news, I was asked today if I would be interim TV Ed. in the TV Ed.'s absence. She'll pop a sprog in December and wants me to take over. Bleh.

Can't see how this is in any way attractive considering it will be more work for no more money and my job will be just as insecure (not in that it feels inadequate in itself, but more that I could get fired any minute for, ah, anything, really. I probably won't though.)... Perhaps I'll try to negotiate some new pay deal, whereby I get lots of money and don't do very much.

Yes...

I want to write loads here — I've got some fine ranting to do — but my tummy's not right and it's putting me off. Sulk.

Snooooooooooooooore.

Oh, THIS might amuse. as might THIS. Some heavy metal piss-takery.

Some of it's painfully (hilariously) true... I have to confess now that I have at least four Darkthrone albums and the only one I really listen to is the most recent one because it's the only one that doesn't sound like a steel-cutter being used on an army of amputees with steel limbs/torsos/teeth. My flirtation with black metal was brief, but informative.

Mu-hahahahahahahaaaaaaaa

Such a silly thing, but oddly brilliant.

Mostly for Paul's enjoyment (hello Paul!), although I wouldn't be surprised if he's already seen it...

Purple People Eater

Hi there,

Thinkin' I might put some Green Jelly up here... Thinkin' I mightn't...



That will either work or it won't.

Funnily enough, everything that stopped working after I downloaded Quicktime 7.whatever.the.fuck has started working again. This is A Good Thing, although QT does insist on trying to open Everything — even when it knows it can't. This is annoying and I don't know how to make it stop.

By the by... Today I went to the launch of RTÉ's new schedule (for anyone not familiar with Ireland and our Public Broadcaster, that's what RTÉ is. I'm soooo helpful!). The verdict is in — more of the same.

They've still got Podge and Rodge, which is nice, after all those rumours that they were going to off-fuck to England like they did before when they were Zig and Zag. I would really like to feel sort of patriotic and warm towards RTÉ, but it's really hard when they keep churning out shit. Oh, CSI is staying too.

Oh, Grainne Seoige was there — quite the stunner in the flesh. It's a shame she's only doing daytime stuff, I think there's a great future for her in late nite entertainment... (Bad Stephen! What would Liz say? Um... She'd agree? Oh, yeah...)

Boobeedoo...

John Kelly was there too, and I didn't have a conversation with him again. That's about three or four times now that I haven't had a conversation with John Kelly. Perhaps I'd better have the opening line, he just doesn't seem to be going for the alluring stare, or the Peter Sutcliffe eyes.

That blondie woman from Off The Rails was there too (is she Pamela Flood or the other one? y'see, this is why I can't talk to these people!). Aside from being totally and utterly annoying, she's quite attractive.

David McWilliams has a three-part series coming up which should be good. Of course, he couldn't be arsed turning up for something as crude as a press meet'n'greet, which is a shame. Mind you, what could I say? "I really like your show — well, I did, but since I stopped being on the dole I can no longer watch it. Also, your book was good, if smug and inconclusive."

Sorry Dave, I call it like I see it.

Which brings me to an ongoing gripe of mine — I keep getting stopped from writing things because of 'Libel laws'. Libel, Schmibel! If they hadn't done what they did they wouldn't be fair game, and if they've managed to cover up what they did so well that a court finds me in the wrong, then there's something very wrong with the system.

Apparently Pat Kenny sues every time someone refers to him as Pat the Plank — possibly in reference to his wooden presenting style, I dunno — and so I'm not allowed to call him that.

Jesus, I do go on a bit...

Damn! Blast! Damn again!

Just tried to download the thing it told me to download when it told me I couldn't watch the thing I'd obviously watched at some point before, therefore I must've had the plug-in before.

Why do the CyberLords mock me so?

Answers on a postcard.

Badum bum pum

Yo-ho-ho!

Hello.

It's funny, but I stuck up something on my blog last time I was on and I can't remember what it was and I suddenly can't access it. Tis annoying... So now I'm trying to download the thing that I was sure I had because surely I must've in order that I could watch it in the first place and and and ...

Mind... Boggling... POP!

Liz is just home from work — it's 11pm!!

So I have to make dinner and be nice.

Bye! (for now...)