Monthly Archives: September 2010

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From what we can gather, he’s called Mike, he’s from Ladysbridge (went to the same imprimatur as Derek from Crystal Swing, St Colman’s, Midleton), and he’ll be performing the song live on Cork’s RedFM (104-106), sometime between 10am and 2pm this Friday.

Hopefully not frickin’ sideways, though.

Welcome to the imagination of one-time high-school essayist Peter Nguyen.

Lots more (including a now-legendary 7-page treatment of Lord of the Flies by, eh, Mark Twain) on Peter Nguyen’s FaceBook Page, which looks suspiciously like a fansite to us.

There’s also this university essay, which looks as if it was written by Peter, but apparently wasn’t. To reiterate, it’s a university essay.

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He’s on his feet as we write:

“In 1940, my grandfather, with my Dad, climbed onto one of the last boats out of Belgium. They had to make a heart-breaking decision – to leave behind my grandmother and my father’s sister. They spent the war in hiding, in a village sheltered by a brave local farmer. Month after month, year upon year, they lived in fear of the knock at the door.At the same time, on the other side of Europe, my mother, aged five, had seen Hitler’s army march into Poland.

She spent the war on the run sheltering in a convent and then with a Catholic family that took her in. Her sister, her mother and her.

My love for this country comes from this story. Two young people fled the darkness that had engulfed the Jews across Europe and in Britain they found the light of liberty.”

Meh.

We still prefer the Brother.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8VE5A7D7m8&feature=player_embedded

Here it is.

Cowen being interviewed by his own press officer yesterday after that visit.

His own press officer.

With a camera crew.

And posted on the government website.

As an “exclusive”.

Bartender…comic…