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THIS IS FUNNY

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“There’ll be nothing that links me to your murder…” I’ve developed a worrying sort of man-crush on Conan O’Brien lately. This is him having dinner with his associate producer Jordan Schlansky.

June 14th, 2009. 2 Comments »

AHMADINEJAD ‘LANDSLIDE’: WESTERN OBSERVERS, HOT IRANIAN GIRLS UNITED IN OUTRAGE

election-protest-4 Sneaky bastards… it’s starting to look like the fix is in..

UPDATED: This is extraordinary, Iranians are using an English language soccer forum to talk about what’s happening. Also, statistician Nate Silver demonstrates that reports purporting to prove that the election was rigging may themselves be flawed.

June 14th, 2009. 8 Comments »

YOU BELONG TO ME (1952)

June 13th, 2009. 2 Comments »

I CAN’T BELIEVE I WAS CHARGED €6.50 FOR THIS SHIT…

breakfast21Had “breakfast” on South William Street this morning: two pieces of streaky bacon, two thin slices of bread and a dollop of Ballymaloe Relish. Reference the butter sachet for scale.

Miserable bastards. I swear to God, it’ll be worth the recession if some of these pricks go to the wall.

June 13th, 2009. 12 Comments »

THIS IS… SLIGHTLY TROUBLING

Okay, this is definitely the last post I ever do about weird search queries that find their way to this site. But you’ve just got to check this bad boy out…

June 13th, 2009. 4 Comments »

YES TO DEMOCRACY! YES TO EQUALITY! NO TO TESTICULAR CANCER!

iran-election-rally Ten days ago, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad looked a shoe-in for re-election in Tehran. But as Iranians go to the polls later today, his lead looks to have all but evaporated after a massive outpouring of public support for his rival, reformist former Prime Minister Houssein Moussavi (a.k.a. Iran’s Barack Obama… possibly.) CNN reports:

Rivers of green have flowed through the streets… Called out by text message and email the numbers exceeded all expectations. By the end of the week Moussavi’s supporters stretched as far as the eye could see from one end of Tehran to another, in scenes not witnessed here since the Islamic Revolution swept this country back in 1979.

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June 11th, 2009. 6 Comments »

CONEY ISLAND BABY (1975)


“Just remember that the city is a funny place / Something like a circus or a sewer…”

June 11th, 2009. 2 Comments »

LAME JOKES BOB DYLAN HAS TOLD ONSTAGE WHILE INTRODUCING HIS BAND (1988 – 2009)

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“At the back, the meanest drummer in the world. When we played in the Middle East, he killed the Dead Sea… David Kemper!”

“You might be wondering what’s written on his shoes – those are foot notes!” Read the rest of this entry »

June 11th, 2009. 3 Comments »

Brendan Thompson getting his mickey caught in his zip in junior infants: a critical analysis

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Picture it: a vibrant tableau of rural Irish childhood in the 1980s. Two lines of infants, marshalled by an elderly nun, stand in a freezing corridor, waiting for their turn to use the toilet. There is some perfunctory jostling and pulling of hair. But for the most part, it is a peaceful scene. On the wall behind, a portrait of Pope John Paul II smiles down serenely. Read the rest of this entry »

June 10th, 2009. 11 Comments »

THIS IS FUNNY (TIP JAR EDITION)

lebowski-tip More after the jump… Read the rest of this entry »

June 10th, 2009. 3 Comments »