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Apparently it’s cool to have a sort of Halloween dedicated to the ridicule of a people driven to drink by poverty and discrimination. (I know, cry me a river, right? But look it up.) Anyway, the two positive outcomes are that: a) I have a holiday, and b) I get to indiscriminately beat people who dress like retarded leprechauns and talk in an Irish/pirate hybrid accent. So I have to get at it, if you don’t mind. Top o’ the marnin’ to yeh.
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- The amazing Lawrence Hill and C.S. Richardson make Commonwealth uber-list
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- NYPL name change (my personal opinion? Hubris.)
- Julian Barnes profile
- Asian “Booker” winner translated
- John Banville introduces Seamus Heaney in the Guardian great poets series
- On poor enunciation
- Trainspotting prequel?
- Novelists strike fails to affect nation whatsoever
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March 17th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Yup, there’s nothing worse than mindless stereotypes, eh George.
Cheers from Calgary
March 17th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
What are you on about, you slack-jawed, oil-drinking cowpoke?
March 17th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
I’d explain, but you’re Irish.
Tell me, are Newfoundlanders as lazy as they say?
March 17th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Naw, they’re more like the Irish.
March 17th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Drunk AND lazy?
March 17th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Well, speaking of mindless stereotypes, the John Banville piece on Heney talks of tribal violence and a county called Derry ! If I were Irish I think I would question that kind of ignorance and wonder where the editor was when that got to print. . .
March 17th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Even worse, they put the Irish poet in today.
March 17th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
With regards to the Onion piece on the strike of novelists…so funny I wanted to slit my wrists. I was reminded of a recent exchange I had with a relative by marriage who doubles as a TV exec in Hollywood. It went something like this:
me: what are you going to do now the strike is over?
her: try convince people to put down those books and return to television.