The Dossing Times

Simon is back to fine posting form on the blog, which I am happy to see. Life is busy but good for me away from the blog at the moment, so much so that I got a Christmas card from Simon and his girlfriend this year, a proper, made of paper, written in pen Christmas [...]

Throughout ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ there was often a suggestion of slaying and hunting evil being an aphrodisiac, an animalistic urge and a source of appetite. Where a parallel was created between fighting and sex, said sex was shot with a teen audience in mind and only bare shoulders exposed. ‘True Blood’, similarly centred on [...]

I’ve battled with how to begin my approach to conveying my love for ‘30 Rock’ on the blog. Its been a frenzy of watching episodes of late, so much so that a day without an episode is an oddity. The humour is compulsively addictive, so that at points my chest hurts from laughing so hard. [...]

With my Mam and Dad coming to Dublin this weekend, I am for the first time in my life ‘hosting’ my parents. Said event inspires the list below.
6. Jack and Norma Arnold
All American, demanding father, doting mother.

5. Cliff and Claire Huxtable
Large family, huge ratings, both with professions.

4. Charles and Caroline Ingalls
Hard working, inspired popular fiction, [...]

 
‘Scrubs’ as we know it ended tonight, for me at least. RTE in their infinite wisdom had some sort of brain haemorhage and moved the final episodes of the series from a cheer you up Monday evening slot to a grave yeard shift on Wednesday. And they wonder why no one watches TV anymore. The [...]

Oddly, I think of Indecent Proposal when I think of people struggling in difficult recessionary times; the background to the infamous conflict is of course that the couple, as played by Woody Harrelson and Demi Moore, are struggling financially, what with their house in danger of repossession. Whether we need a fictional account of individual [...]

Microsoft have gone and withdrawn the ad below as it was deemed offensive. This is surely a way of ensuring your ad is seen by more people than not, with a news story now attached to the ad. And this blog is feeding into their exploits. We feel used.

‘The Wire’ Season 3 continued in strong strides to reimagine what can be achieved in a TV series. Leaving aside the travails of the port stevedores we met in Series 2, the story reverts its focus fully to that of the drug trade which riddles Baltimore. This series looks to city hall, the mayor and [...]

Over on AICN there is a suggestion that this may be Matt Damons tendering for an Oscar nod – I ain’t so sure. He might have pudged up and put on a god awful wig, but the Academy like lots of angst and preferably weight loss before they consider people for Oscar. This looks like [...]