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I am not much of a socialiser. While others may be found on many's the evening dancing upon the tables of happening establishments too cool to have a name, I am more likely to be sitting on my couch mulling over the wisdom of a third digestive biscuit. Nonetheless, last week saw me in an uncharacteristically adventurous mode- making my way one evening up Thomas St towards the Guinness Storehouse.
In a traitorous bid to dilute the prestige of the tuppenceworth brand, I have started a new blog. It's called These Are Songs and it is about songs. The first post is a ridiculously long one about "Frankie and Johnny".
A week later, and it still seems hard to believe. I surprise myself by being stirred, thrilled even, by even the most schmaltzy and saccharine of the celebrations of the election of Barack Obama. I looked at the papers on Thursday with something approaching wonder.
Specificically, the Sub-Committee on Ireland's Future in the European UnionCrossposted from Liveblog.
I wake up in the dark. I get up and stagger out of bed and downstairs to prepare my son's breakfast bottle. I stand waiting for it to heat.
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Don't pretend you won't be watching it. Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. So come along and we'll huddle together as the real* results start coming in.
I was contacted last week by Gareth Stack, who is a thoughtful recent graduate of Trinity College Dublin. Gareth had contributed to a User Generated Content based competition by Hot New Band the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. They asked their fans to send in videos of themselves singing along to one of their songs and then cut a selection of them together.
I don’t know how many times it’s happened to me. At the McDonald’s counter, I am presented with my Quarter Pounder with Cheese meal, ketchup not included. “Could I have some ketchup, please?"The guy at the counter gives me a single sachet.
BelmulletOriginally uploaded by Conor LawlessDuring August of this year I wrote a blizzard of letters for clients of McGarr Solicitors who were worried about their crab fishing pots. As it turned out, they had good reason to be worried. Traditionally, August is the middle of the Long Vacation, and therefore ought to be a sleepy time for law firms.
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