Eoin Butler: writer, journalist and Mayoman of the Year

Tripping Along The Ledge


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More Cowbell (2000)


It was ten years ago last month that this classic SNL sketch first aired. When it has turned up on YouTube since then, it tends to be pulled down fairly quickly. So if you haven’t seen it before, hurry! Meanwhile, after the jump, I will single-handedly suck every last drop of fun out of the thing by rationalising exactly it’s so funny. Read the rest of this entry »

IF THAT’S A FACT, TELL ME… AM I LYING?


A report in today’s New York Times suggests that Christopher Walken’s Don Vincenzo, in this famous scene from True Romance, may actually have gotten it all wrong. Read the rest of this entry »