Tales Of The Gurrier

Ey up internet. Being self employed, one must seize opportunities with both sweaty hands when they present themselves. To that end, I have been working like the divil and neglecting my other pursuits. So here’s a quick one for you, Dailylit.com. They send you books by email. Choose from a large selection of public domain [...]

There was briefly a review of Writely and it’s post to blog feature here but it managed to completely balls up not only the post, but the entire site design and so has now been removed. I’ll give it another run when they are out of beta.

These two services Pandora and LastFM are really interesting. My problem, being clueless when it comes to music is never really knowing what to listen to music wise. It’s not that I dislike music but I’ve just never been that into it. Whenever I feel I would like to go and buy some new music [...]

This Fall. Be good, be great, be in love, Bee Season. Watch this trailer, drink in the humongous talent vacuum that is Richard Gere. That’s it now, thats good keep drinking, do you taste him yet? That vapid scent of old bananas hanging like musk in the crisp Fall air, that’s Richard Gere. Old man [...]

A chill wind whipped down lonely Dawson Street as we marched glumly toward our destination. Searchlights whirled overhead, spears of neon bathed the building in lurid streams of illumination. A garish, luminous precursor to the baleful and malignant events to come. The crowd gathered outside had a nasty feral look. Sporting the glazed over vistas [...]

Mulligans of Poolbeg street. The dark cavern of the belly hordes. The Tiger does not hold sway down here amongst the fir bolg. This venerable stout encrusted establishment has squatted for countless years on Poolbeg street. A murky shrine to Arthur Guinness. A yellowing monument to Dublin’s past. Nominally a ‘literary pub’ with the likes [...]