As myself and my friend Lesley left The Waterfront in Belfast last night to catch my bus home at the tail-end of Dave Matthew’s acoustic gig, I thought to myself “if he plays ‘Jimi Thing’ now and I miss it I’ll be very upset!”. But he didn’t and a minute later the crowd rolled out […]
Lying in bed the other night (curled up like a cat, it was a bit nippy), I started reflecting on the world around me. Everywhere I look I see happy couples building sandcastles together, families guffawing hysterically at pop-up books and then I spy the lonely mad man; decked out in full-length trench-coat, reciting stock […]
The final night of what has been an odyssey of … odysettic* proportions. To be quite honest with you it has been an uneventful week so I’m not going to bore you with the ins and outs. We did get stopped by a traffic cop on Tuesday morning while doing 47 in a 25 zone. […]
Day 7 While Palo Alto wasn’t exactly boiling hot it was positively tropical compared to the polar temperatures in Chicago. From 60F to -26F in the space of the four hours it took me to reach the windy city. My friend Sean had told me that it was cold and to bring a coat. Well […]
Day 4 It was an old boys night out on Wednesday as myself and Noel hit the local Thai restaurant and rolled back the years with some amusing anecdotes and references. Obviously they would be lost on you guys as they reflect on stories like that hilarious time back in 1988 when I announced quite […]
Hello friends of the world. Thank you for your comments on my previous blog. To take up Lesley’s point on the last blog I hope not to make this a *yawn* situation with updates on what colour socks I’m wearing. They’re navy. Rest of day 1 So day 1 finished off with me hitting San […]
I thought it might be exciting to blog from an airport. Never done it before. It’s 5pm central time – I’m getting used to the lingo already – here in Chicago and I’m in the middle of a four hour stopover on my trip from Dublin to San Francisco. Got to be honest I can […]
Saddam Hussein is dead. Kind of weird isn’t it? Iran-Iraq war When I was about 7 or 8 years of age his name was on every newscast, accompanying rather violent pictures from the Iran-Iraq war. Despite Hussein’s use of chemical weapons and his human rights abuses, actor Ronald Reagan sent senile Donald Rumsfeld over to […]
When my friend David first mentioned going to see Tenacious D on the start of their WORLD tour (always sounds cool to say that the world tour is starting in your country even though Ireland is a logical place for most American bands to start a European leg) I was fairly high on the idea. […]
Remember Homer’s famous “gime” scene? The one where he arrives at the gym, asks what a “gime” is, steps inside to see all the equipment and says “Oh…a gime…” Well I joined a new gime…*ahem* gym last week. This thing is flipping amazing. I paid about EUR600 a year for my last gym which was […]
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