June, 2009

Seamus says Yes, so…

I love the notion of celebrity endorsement, don’t you? David Beckham packs himself into a pair of underpants and, at enormous expense, his image is hung (aptly enough) down the side of a building in Times Square. In response, thousands or maybe millions of males rush to the shops and buy said underwear, figuring if […]

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Seamus says Yes, so…

I love the notion of celebrity endorsement, don’t you? David Beckham packs himself into a pair of underpants and, at enormous expense, his image is hung (aptly enough) down the side of a building in Times Square. In response, thousands or maybe millions of males rush to the shops and buy said underwear, figuring if […]

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Birthday Background Music

When I was small, every 12 July my sisters and myself used to go half-way out our lane, moving carefully from tree-trunk to tree-trunk to avoid being seen. That was because the Orange bands were marching up the Derry Road towards Omagh and while we were keen to see this blaring, thudding procession, we didn’t […]

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Birthday Background Music

When I was small, every 12 July my sisters and myself used to go half-way out our lane, moving carefully from tree-trunk to tree-trunk to avoid being seen. That was because the Orange bands were marching up the Derry Road towards Omagh and while we were keen to see this blaring, thudding procession, we didn’t […]

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When No means Yes

October. That’s what… four months from now. Four months for the political parties in the south and the massed forces of the southern media to make sure that Lisbon 2 isn’t a re-run of Lisbon 1. In one sense it is or will be, of course. Even though the Lisbon Treaty was supposed to be […]

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When No means Yes

October. That’s what… four months from now. Four months for the political parties in the south and the massed forces of the southern media to make sure that Lisbon 2 isn’t a re-run of Lisbon 1. In one sense it is or will be, of course. Even though the Lisbon Treaty was supposed to be […]

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Goodbye to Guns?

Well, that’s OK, then. The UVF are decommissioning, so innocent Catholics can stop worrying about being killed for no other reason than that they’re Catholic. Mind you, the decommissioning will have to be credible. The DUP were very definite about that when the IRA decommissioning came up: there’d have to be photographic evidence, otherwise it’d […]

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Goodbye to Guns?

Well, that’s OK, then. The UVF are decommissioning, so innocent Catholics can stop worrying about being killed for no other reason than that they’re Catholic. Mind you, the decommissioning will have to be credible. The DUP were very definite about that when the IRA decommissioning came up: there’d have to be photographic evidence, otherwise it’d […]

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Shoe polish and fetish

I bought a tin of polish this morning and what looked like a rectangular sponge with a hard-sponge backing to it. The sponge has a light plastic casing into which it fits, the way little plants you get in the garden centre have, and on the bottom of the casing it says ‘Cherry Blossom’. I […]

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Shoe polish and fetish

I bought a tin of polish this morning and what looked like a rectangular sponge with a hard-sponge backing to it. The sponge has a light plastic casing into which it fits, the way little plants you get in the garden centre have, and on the bottom of the casing it says ‘Cherry Blossom’. I […]

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