I don’t know whether I fall outside the bracket of Young People nowadays but the rockthevote campaign has passed me by despite the celebrities, online presence and events they have organised to encourage younger voters to get out and vote.

Their website is worthy of a browse. (Link)

After Nirvana beating Tori Amos by 66% to 33%, the Originals are finally off the mark. The Covers still lead 2-1 overall and next up is one hell of a battle, All along the Watchtower.

First Original Bob Dylan

Next Jimi Hendrix

As always you can vote here, or on the sidebar.

Reasons to go see 28 Weeks Later:

It is the sequel to an exceptional film so why not put faith in the makers that they could do it again.

Upon visiting the cinema such faith will be justified, how often does that happen?

All CGI is put to good use, the world around us is put to astounding [...]

Foreword

Dear Reader,

We here at the Dossing Times don’t care much for conventions. We like our reputation as the Mavericks of the blogsphere, always willing to stick it to traditions and norms. We believe in change, we believe it is something to be embraced. Change is the spice of life and is always welcome (except, of [...]

Unsurprisingly, Miss D has won her High Court case and is permitted to travel to the UK to have an abortion without the need for a Court order.

As some will have noticed I have been a bit quiet here as I have been blogging over on Irish Election. Here is my latest post.

With all the allegiations floating about Bertie it is a bit hard to remember all of them so here is what I could locate. So I will try a piece [...]

Strange as it may seem, wracking my brain, Lucasfilm seems to be the only production house that has successfully put out a trilogy of films which have maintained quality and been structurally and thematically sound. Saimi Raimi and co will not be joining those higher echelons of film-making. Part of me does not even want [...]

DVD for May: ‘Idiocracy’

I worry that what follows below is too negative and then you as readers will automatically disregard ‘Idiocracy’ at the video shop but I do want to make clear that it is still a movie worth watching and of course commenting on so as to compare notes. I am always interested in [...]

Everyone loves a good list, and what better blog to list some of the more interesting sites that will find your time hastily evaporating that the Dossing times.

1. The Forbes Rich List.

Whether we begrudge them or aspire to following their example many column inches are given over to listing the rich elite amongst us. The [...]

Fine Fail are expected to chime in with the rest of the choir this morning on Stamp Duty and of course will go one better and propose to backdate the reform of the tax for 1st time buyers. No matter how much distance they have tried to put between this and similar announcements from the [...]