Palin as President

Love this. 

Name game

A proud day for the global clan Cashin on The Daily Show the other day. Skip to 1.37 mins in...

Reunions ahoy!

Another 'Ace' addition to the 'Cynically Cashing In On Pop Nostalgia' gravy train. 

Sounds like a Leap of shite Amy!

Dear God. Here's the winner of the prize for Dodgy Movie Plot Outline for 2008. Amy Adams, how could you?!

Cyndi, dear, you're still No 1

My interview with Cyndi Lauper in today's Independent

Cyndi Lauper has the strongest 'Noo Yawk' accent I've ever heard, so it was probably not the best idea to volunteer to teach her some Irish during the course of a transatlantic phone call that had a five-second delay due to being relayed through a London agency. Continue here.

Separated at birth?

Mark from The Apprentice and Fine Gael's Dr Leo Varadkar?

"I used to think Michael was the most hilarious Palin on earth..."

John Cleese on Sarah Palin...

Politics is bullshit...

Mysterious Skin and Third Rock from the Sun actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt gets all political in the run-up to the election. 

Greed is good...again

Plans afoot for a sequel to Wall Street. 

Always nice to know you're being read...

Delightful thread started over on Irish-Nationalism.net about my feature on the gay prom in the Independent last week. 

Yabba Dabba Do!

Scarah Palin once claimed that dinosaur and man lived side-by-side. What is there left to say?

Obama leads by 10 points

Obama is back up in today's Gallup, leading MuckCain by 10 points. 

Alternative plans

Get your skates - and skirts, fake boobs, prosthetic penis' and wigs - on if you want to take part in next year's Alternative Miss Ireland. Click on the poster for all the details. 

Google and gay marriage

Google adopts a rare political position and comes out (so to speak) against California's Proposition 8 proposal on next month's ballot seeking to amend the state's constitution to ban same-sex marriage. 

Recount

This weekend, in absence of any real life, I watched Recount, a fantastic HBO TV movie about the farcical 2000 US presidential election, and the chaos that ensued in Florida over hanging and dimple chad (the plural of chad is chad, as we find out) and the various efforts on both the Republican and Democratic sides to swing the election for their guy. A brilliant cast - Kevin Spacey, Denis Leary, Tom Wilkinson, Ed Begley Jnr, and Laura Dern - truly unnerving as the bizarre Katherine Harris, Florida's overly-made-up Secretary of State - Recount is essential viewing for any politico-heads out there, and is especially topical this year where the election could come down to a close vote-off in many key swing states. 

Have you heard about the bird?

Damn you Peter Griffin! This song (and, if I'm honest, dance) has been in my head all weekend. It's a recurring 'earworm' gag from episode 2 of Season 7 of the show, and I almost cried laughing at it. B-b-b-bird, bird is the word...

Movie posters

50 beautiful movie posters. Though it leaves out The Truman Show, one of the best (and most copied) posters ever.

All the Presidents' movies

My feature from today's Review in the Independent

The 2008 presidential contest between Barack Obama and John McCain has been t he most thrilling and dramatic race in modern American history, and it’s sure to make a hell of a movie some day. 

All the elements are there for a great Hollywood epic: generational conflict, cliff hangers, intrigue, bitch fights, glamorous leading ladies (as well as the odd femme fatale), and a spectacular plot twist in the third act in the form of vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, a candidate and a character that even the most imaginative screenwriter would surely struggle to create. 

Continue here and then here. 

Sex writers getting laid (tee hee hee) off

Interesting piece From Salon.com