09:00
1952 BORN: Joe Strummer, AKA John Graham Mellor, in Ankara, Turkey, British musician, The Clash, The Mescaleros, London Calling (d 22/12/2002)
1952 BORN: Joe Strummer, AKA John Graham Mellor, in Ankara, Turkey, British musician, The Clash, The Mescaleros, London Calling (d 22/12/2002)
09:21
Radio comes on early for once. The Hairdryer has a studio interview with guess what: three posh Dublin students from down the road. Talking about their favourite shows on telly. I like this hard hitting investigative radio based on a national trawl of issues. Where's Pat? Must I wait? I want Pat. Ten am. OK. Breathe. Breeeathe.
10:06
"Was there no verbals?"
What an interesting choice of word. Yes, you know who I'm talking about. He's BAAACKKK! Pat Hallelujahpat has returned to this Earth. He and the sports dork are harking on about Dublin getting slaughtered in their football game yesterday. Apparently, the Dubs had not even considered that they might be beat.
PAT: Speaking as a Dublin fan, I thought the turning point came in the second half when the goalie ....
OH YESSS! No more lame hamstring talk. It's all choice cuts of meat and two organicc veg now. Phew. I was fairly depressed the last three months or two years or whatever length of time he absented himself. Truth be told, nobody knows anything, but at least with Pat I know he don't know that he don't know.
11:16
- You're not just a hurler on the ditch. You've been there. (Such a powerful precursor to a question, laced with the analogies of the bucolic Gael.)
- And who decided on the three seconds?
- Is this the Irish solution to the Irish problem?
- Yeaw. I'm thinking of a junction near my mansion and the large cars have to take a long time getting around the corner.
- Do you know what the problem is? Ministers don't understand how ordinary folk live.
- When did you become brand conscious?
- Are you a Nike man or a Reebok?
- Post-bonfire?
- "Who is this sad idiot?"
- A masterpiece of engineering, the Dyson vacuum cleaner.
- What instruments were examined?
- Piccolo? Stringed instruments? Bouzouki? Lilting? Whistling? Singing?
- Lot's of Guinness present I suspect, ha, ha.
- Some of the blue chips could be good value.
- August is autumn. Have a good day.
12:05
Dull day, cats prowl the black grey cap stones. Pretty-boy Pat's back in his box and we're afterglow.
12:12
Pfff. Dubs are stupid if they think they have what it takes to own the all-Ireland football championship. It's no use being hungry in your own half of the pitch, lads. You need to score more and concede less and stop getting into scraps that you always lose.
12:58
Oh Lord, get your stupid hat on, you're on myspace.
13:33
Six hundred folk take their own lives in the Republic of Ireland every year. More, probably, but who's counting? Nobody. That's who.
14:38
CALL: My daughter lived a life of hell before killing herself due to bullying at school.
