http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense Just another irishtimes.com weblog Tue, 27 May 2008 13:16:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, we come to the end. I've been writing this blog since April of last year, the original idea being to post my weekly column outside of the paywall, and to throw up a few bits and pieces every now and then. The "every now and then" became pretty much ... http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/05/27/present-tense-blog-rip/ Lloyd Jones's The Book of Fame, an enjoyable, and often beautiful, novella which gives a fictionalised account of the 1905 tour to the Britain and Ireland by the All Blacks. Jones previously wrote Mister Pip, but this is a far more gentle affair, in which a group of ordinary men ... http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/05/27/reading-13/ As spotted by Niall on James McInerney's blog, here's a Creationism event in Lucan Be amazed by the "Colourful PowerPoint Illustrations"! Marvel at the madness of the "Ape Man"! Be baffled by the "Frog that turned into a Prince (Man)"! Completely miss the irony of religious types accusing evolution of being ... http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/05/26/hey-ape-man/ Jim has a fine round up on his blog, but I'm too pumped up not to say a few things about Bruce's Dublin gigs too. - Highlights for me? Badlands was great, and Livin' in the Future (as Jim has said this morning) is settling in as a classic. But Jungleland ... http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/05/26/bruce/ WEDNESDAY NIGHT WAS a long, long night of Champions League football and an even longer night of football coverage, although this applied more to RTÉ than to ITV or Sky Sports. If the stats had popped up on the screen, in football terms RTÉ would have spent far more time on ... http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/05/25/saturday-column-pitching-it-right/ Have a good weekend, everyone. What would the universe look like in time ran backwards, asks Scientific American. Slate.com on the perils of running for US President if you have an unusual name. While climate change litigation be the class action of the future? The New York Times looks at the book 1001 ... http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/05/23/some-weekend-reading-and-listening/ UPDATE: Thanks to Green Ink for capturing this great moment from last night's show. Which I wasn't at. So Bruce had better repeat himself tonight. I don't care what the crowd thinks.Share This http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/05/23/where-ill-be-tonight-and-sunday-night/ As (possibly) already seen in your inbox.Share This http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/05/22/the-first-of-many/ Last night's ITV tee-up for the Champions League final included a mash-up in which DJ Yoda mixed and scratched Chelsea and Man U footage with a few tunes. Sounds like a cool enough idea. Yet, as soon as Robbie Earle pops up, you know that this effort to get down ... http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/05/21/r-r-ronaldo-is-a-d-d-diver/ One of the odder aspects of this whole Eurovision thing is that Dustin the Turkey has, at times, been playing it straight. Here's today's Morning Ireland interview in which Aine Lawlor interviews a man on a phone line who is in character, but without the jokes. However, is there a ... http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/presenttense/2008/05/21/dustin-the-turkey-hes-not-real/