Billy Bragg live 1985. When you wake up to the fact that your paper is Tory just remember there are two sides to every story.
REM 1984. Nothing to do with a general election across the Irish Sea.
The Shins. Life is dangerously fast. Thank God I'm listening to the right music.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
So Not The Point
It has been pointed out by an acquaintance of mine that my previous post contains factual errors, errors which have led him to believe that I am guilty of conducting inadequate research. The error in question is the current title of Mary Hanafin. Apparently the description of her job should read Minister for Culture and Sport and not Minister for Arts, Culture and Tourism.
What we have here is a classic case of the internationally recognized phenomenon known as I say potAto and you say potaahto. For the wording of her job title is insignificant. She knows as little about sport as she does about the arts, or culture as it concerns people outside Leinster House. She knows nothing of the body of work of Gram Parsons or Andy Irvine in the same way that she knows nothing of who trained Dawn Run or who scored the goal that got us to the 1994 World Cup Finals or what club Henry Sheflin represents.
She might as well be called Minister for High Pressure Hydraulic Piston Pumps, a department which I gather was a hair's breadth away from being created in the recent reshuffle until someone reminded Cowen that you should never act the bollix with hydraulics.
Ah well. Luckily we're still going forward.
What we have here is a classic case of the internationally recognized phenomenon known as I say potAto and you say potaahto. For the wording of her job title is insignificant. She knows as little about sport as she does about the arts, or culture as it concerns people outside Leinster House. She knows nothing of the body of work of Gram Parsons or Andy Irvine in the same way that she knows nothing of who trained Dawn Run or who scored the goal that got us to the 1994 World Cup Finals or what club Henry Sheflin represents.
She might as well be called Minister for High Pressure Hydraulic Piston Pumps, a department which I gather was a hair's breadth away from being created in the recent reshuffle until someone reminded Cowen that you should never act the bollix with hydraulics.
Ah well. Luckily we're still going forward.
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