Instead of writing letters to The Irish Times (e.g. about what tasteless cunts* they are for trashing my book), or doing exams or trying to woo multinational corporations to advertise in my home-made magazine, I've been reading generic thrillers (Jeffrey Deaver is shite, btw) and watching full series of "24" in four days. Whoah. My life is so ( Read more... )

read for the kids in the gay youth group today.

had an ice-breaker ("i'm jarlath, and i'm a... jackrabbit"),
then some games courtesy of cork lesbians.

then i had the reading, which was fine, and some Q&A's afterwards.

"so, jarlath, that first review ye got in the irish independent wasn't too complimentary.
how do you cope with that?"

sigh...

Drinks: Many ( Read more... )

I was all prepared to write about the fantastic time I've had in Ukraine until yesterday - when everything went a bit Pete Tong ( Read more... )

Saturday night: The Dragon is Alright Shocker ( Read more... )

I have 3 minutes to write about my trip to Ukraine cos we're rushing off to dinner ( Read more... )

poor Vinnie.
Sat there IN THE THIRD ROW for the Eurovision in Kiev -
waving his little tricolour flag for Ireland -
and his country have let him down.

Ireland failed to qualify for the Eurvision final!!!
Brilliant.
That's what you get for entering gingers as our national representatives.

I've seen Rufus Wainwright several times before and got this nice show of a man singing at a piano....


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Neil's semi-annoying flatmate has moved out ( Read more... )

So I've lost my Star Wars virginity, in an epic orgy of ALL 6 MOVIES ( Read more... )