Yearly Archives: 2013

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Meanwhile in the Corte Suprrema di Cassazione;

A dancing Carabiniere, moments before the judge of the day upheld a tax fraud sentence of four years in jail for Berlusconi.

He does a great macerana.

via la Repubblica

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Sean Mac an tSithigh writes:

“A previously unrecorded humpback whale has been spotted off the Kerry coast. Feeding near the Blasket Islands, the whale is only the 23rd individual humpback ever recorded in Irish waters. Its sighting marks the beginning of humpback season in the southwest. TG4 News report. 29 July 2013.”

 

Talk to me not of Blaskets, man.

TG4

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What you may need to know

1. Surprisingly good trailer alert.

2. That said, Ben Stiller’s record as director-star is pretty good: we’re thinking Zoolander (2001) and Tropic Thunder (2008). He also directed The Cable Guy (1996), and did a great cameo.

3. Hopefully, he’s knocking the focking Fokker films on the head.

4. He also produces (and cameos in) our very favorite web series.

5. Minus point for Adam Scott’s fake beard.

6. Bonus point for unlikely Sean Penn cameo.

7. Prognosis: Stiller wants Oscar. Stranger things have happened.

Release Date: Christmas

cookerA pressure cooker last night.

Sido writes:

The main news in today’s Guardian is that the American NSA pay UK GCHQ lots of money for intelligence, The UK’s lax snooping laws, and the fact that they are not constrained about spying on Murican citizens, means that they can do just that.
The really funny story though, is about some unfortunate family in New York, who had been looking to purchase a pressure cooker for cooking lentils, and had also been browsing back packs. The teenage son had also looked at details of the Boston bombings.
They were visited by FBI agents in three black SUVs. I don’t know if one of them was Special Agent Leeroy Jethro Gibbs, that’s probably confidential, but there you have it.

Funny but frightening, Don’t consider buying a pressure cooker in the near future.

 

New York woman visited by police after researching pressure cookers online (Guardian)

 

blurParklife.

At Blur at IMMA, Kilmainham, Dublin, last night.

DH writes:

[Transport] Minister Leo [Varadkar] and my friend Eoghan  at the Blur gig last night. The Minister is congratulating Eoghan on recently passing his exams and Eoghan is congratulating the Minister on his deft handling of the coming [Bus] strike action. A real meeting of minds.

 

Last Night: Meanwhile, At Blur

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‘They’ve spread their love throughout the world with the Irish diaspora, which is like a sort of positive disease.”

Alan Partridge’s message to Irish cinemagoers to mark the release next week of Alpha Piper, co-starring Colm Meaney and directed by Wexford-born Declan Lowney.

Any excuse.

Alan Partridge Addresses Irish Audiences Ahead of Film’s Release Next Wed 7th Aug (IFTN)

Previously: Broadsheet Trailer park: Alpha Piper