Macrolog: April 2003
Tarzan, or Tarzana Wed 30 Apr 2003
I had another strange dream recently… I am somewhere south of the Liffey, Donnybrook presumably. Morehampton Road. I am at a bookstore, a bookstore with a deep blue painted wooden...
The Waiting Game Tue 29 Apr 2003
Regarding my recent, and much fretted-over, post-graduate studies application: the receipt of application postcard from DIT arrived in the mail this morning. Everything seems to be in order, thank goodness....
Gizza Job Fri 25 Apr 2003
As of writing this, I’ve just gotten back from the local post office where I mailed a bunch of CVs and covering letters to various bookstores in the city centre,...
I've Been Fleeced Thu 24 Apr 2003
Ladies and gentlemen, I’ve been fleeced. By my own government. This morning I received my monthly credit card statement, and was promptly taken aback by the amount I owed. Surely...
On Selling Out Mon 21 Apr 2003 | 6 Comments
On Kottke’s weblog today, there’s a post comparing manufactured pseudo-punk Avril Lavigne to her supposedly less phony pop-punk genremates, with a link to an interesting rant by Dave Eggers about...
What Will Happen Now? Fri 18 Apr 2003
I haven’t been eminently vociferous with regard to the situation in Iraq as of late. My comments might even seem conspicuous by their absense, considering my previous writings on the...
The Strangest Dream Wed 16 Apr 2003 | 11 Comments
I had the strangest dream this morning. I was in a hospital, or at least what I thought was a hospital, although it more closely resembled a cross between the...
Anxious Mofo Tue 15 Apr 2003 | 10 Comments
I’m not happy going to gigs on my own. I stick out like a sore thumb. Billy No-Mates. And I never enjoy myself as much as I would if I...
Remembering Mr. T Sat 12 Apr 2003
I have to admit that I did not know what a clerihew was, before I was educated by Jason Fush yesterday evening. The example he gave — featuring everyone’s second-favourite...
Friday Five #51 Fri 11 Apr 2003
http://fridayfive.org/ 1. What was the first band you saw in concert? I remember when I was very young, like 5 or 6 years old, at some free music festival in...
View from the Food Hall, 05/03/03 Sat 05 Apr 2003
Grafton Street, from inside the entrance to the M&S Food Hall.
Boxing With Shadows Wed 02 Apr 2003 | 1 Comments
This morning while reading a book review by Howard Zinn from the late 1980’s (Plato: Fallen Idol, from The Zinn Reader, Seven Stories Press, p.457) regarding a work in critique...
Clouds Above The Abbey, 31/03/03 Wed 02 Apr 2003
Clouds obscuring the sun above the Abbey Theatre.
April Fool? Not Me (and Happy Birthday, D) Tue 01 Apr 2003
I didn’t wake up until almost noon today. Can you believe that? It’s the life of a lazy bum I lead. It was probably a good thing today, though, since...
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