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You remember Lilou?

She was the cat that took the Dart back in August.

Lilou, along with her French owner Eric Dieci, are the stars of this utterly charming short movie by Hothouse Media (written and directed by Jennifer Griffin and Ruth Meehan with Emma Harte on camera), an entry in the Darklight Film Festival.

It imagines Lilou’s journey as a dreamy Gallic-flavoured, trumpet-tooting odyssey (with an eco-twist).

Also includes some excellent Squee-n cleaning.

Enjoy.

(via Jennifer Griffin)

Below, a reminder of Lilou’s adventure:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyZQ7PfJ09Y&feature=related

No, not ‘Derek angry’.

Something a little more, oh, passive aggressive?

Damien Mulley’s Summary

“Hello! I’m deleting all requests that are not personalised, I think the least that can be done is tell me why it’s worth connecting to you. [If you are a recruitment agency I will not add you and I am not interested in a job. Please don’t waste your time or mine in contacting me. Thanks.] What I do is help people communicate. When you boil it all down blogs, videos, webpages, PR, marketing etc. are all about communicating with people. I’ll show you ways of doing that and help you to keep doing this yourself.”

Translation: I live with my mum.

DMulley:Linkedin

A little context.

Some more.

Ben Frow, Director of programming at TV3, shot the breeze with The Sunday Times yesterday. And tore new ones for the following:

Ray Darcy: “I probably could have had Ray D’Arcy (for forthcoming TV3 dating show Take Me Out). Everyone can have Ray D’Arcy. But I didn’t want Ray D’Arcy. I wanted someone new.”

RTE personalities: “The place is swimming with people who used to be the face of RTE. I can go around scooping them up and giving them a second crack at the whip and I’m not saying I wouldn’t do that, but I think I have to find new faces.

TV3’s Take Me Out (see above) “A pretty trashy dating show, everyone’s guilty pleasure, a car crash alternative to the Late Late Show.”

Brendan O’Connor (on leaving TV3 for RTE): “he handled it very badly and very rudely, as far as I was concerned. He said: ‘RTE are sniffing around, I’d really like to stay with TV3, can we come to a deal?’ We had a agreed a deal. I have the emails saying he was happy with it. Then I had no contact for a week. I didn’t hear one word until one of the producers came in a said: ‘You’ve heard that Brendan is doing a chat show on RTE? It was announced this morning.’ It was disrespectful”

Crikey. And guess who he lunches with?

“I remember looking down at the cinema floor and seeing these rivulets of piss in the aisles. The girls were literally pissing themselves with excitement. So what I associate most with The Beatles is the smell of girls’ urine.”

You’re thinking about those Thai schoolgirls and what might happen when they finally get to meet Phil Coulter?

We’re reporting your IP address.

Digital Spy

PS Is it girl’s piss or girls’ piss. Or can you use both?

(Photocall Ireland)

You’ll need

1 red chilli
2 or 3 cloves of garlic
3 stalks of fresh parsley
1 bag of rocket
1 bag of baby spinach
Half a pack of spaghetti, the thin variety called spaghettini is best.
20 fresh prawns.
Juice of half a lemon.
Extra virgin olive oil.
Knob of butter.
Nice bottle of white wine, whatever you reckon works best with fish.
A pinch of salt and pepper.

METHOD:
Finely chop the garlic, chilli and parsley separately and leave aside, it should look the Italian flag, or the Mexican even! Clean all the prawns by washing them in cold water
Boil a pot of cold water with a bit of salt and add the pasta when water boils. Add the red, white and green to a hot pan of melted knob of butter and cook for four mins until it’s all softened. Now add the prawns for two mins, then the bag of rocket and baby spinach.
The Prawns should take on a lovely orange colour. Add a splash of the white wine that you are going to serve with it and season with salt, black pepper and lemon juice.
Strain the pasta but keep a little bit of the water. Add the pasta to the pan with some extra virgin olive oil and the pasta water. Mix the ingredients through the spaghettini and serve
straight away with a little really fresh focaccia if that floats your curragh like.

Not bad, eh? Dude knows his stuff.

You thought we were messing, didn’t you? You did. Like we were taking the piss and this wasn’t Mundy’s recipe at at all. HA HA. You Lose. Latorz.

(Via ‘Northsider’) (Pic: Photocall Ireland)

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