Archive for July 2006

Leonard Cohen Lives!

Jul 4th, 2006 | By Bock | Category: Music

I was lying on the floor, face down and covered in blood, which is the approved way of listening to my favourite loyalist band, the Electric Prods, when the news came through the window, wrapped around a brick. The new movie about Leonard Cohen is being premiered. Now I happen to fukken LOVE Leonard Cohen. [...]



Something revolting

Jul 3rd, 2006 | By Bock | Category: Home

This will disgust you, or at least I hope it will. It certainly disgusted me. With any luck, it might even make you vomit.
Over the past few days, I’ve noticed an awful lot of bluebottles around the house, but you get that sort of thing during such exceptionally warm weather. Now, I hate [...]



The sublime Zinedine Zidane

Jul 3rd, 2006 | By Bock | Category: Sport

Is there some way to exaggerate this?



Begrudgery II

Jul 3rd, 2006 | By Bock | Category: Humour

I had a further chat tonight with Martin the Nurse about the begrudgery question. You might remember that I was proposing to establish a chair of Comparative Begrudgery at the University of Limerick, with perhaps an Applied Begrudgery element to it. And I thought that a good candidate for the professorship would be an tOllamh [...]



Zizou

Jul 2nd, 2006 | By Bock | Category: Politics, Sport

I nearly didn’t bother watching the World Cup at all. I nearly lost all interest in soccer after the Heineken Cup, and my prejudice was nearly confirmed by some of the earlier games in this competition. However, Argentina vs Mexico rekindled my faith in the Beautiful Game, and today has restored it fully.
Today we witnessed [...]