I didn’t even go to a catholic school, but I realised how much of I’d absorbed when I discovered ‘prosperity gospel’ and was instantly offended.
And I stand by that reaction, it’s a perversion of Christianity (but a logical extension of predestination, which is also philosophically repugnant to me)
In light of my previous, I feel obliged to share this.
I’d feel bad for them, if feeling bad for the Healy-Raes weren’t something I am spiritually incapable of.
Seeing a Healy-Rae quoted in Politico’s Playbook was a real ‘don’t cross the streams’ moment for me.
Every country has its Awkward Backbench Squad, right?
I am in no way Catholic, but also culturally Catholic I guess (growing up in Ireland in the 80s, it’s hard to avoid), and even I know that half of what they come out with is garbage.
The debates over Augustine’s ‘just war’ have been pretty painful.
American ‘converts’ discovering what Catholics actually believe has been more entertaining than it should be. No, your personal relationship with Jesus is not the most important thing!
Sometimes I wonder if discourse in English is fundamentally broken, because we use the same word (good) to denote the unrelated qualities of being effective and being morally correct.
This thought brought to you by glimpsing discussions in The Pitt fandom, and also… *gestures towards entire world*
I’ve had to process a lot of reasonably harrowing material for work reasons - there’s a point where I had to teach myself to forcibly detach, because if I let myself feel it as much as I naturally would I’d have been no good to anyone, self included.
Or maybe this makes me sound unhealthy.
I genuinely think getting Skarsgard into shot with the rest of the cast was one of the biggest directorial challenges of that very stupid film. (The dialogue about physics ‘inverting’ is so bad I will treasure it forever).
I believe the latter should be referred to as the Charles Dance Award for Supreme Supporting Acting.
I still want to meet the casting director who received a brief of this is a hardbitten mercenary explorer who saw some darkness when he was in the special forces and thought “Get me Tom Hiddleston.”
Like, no one’s buying that for a second pet.
Anyone else have Pink Floyd stuck in their head?
I have never watched Sharknado, but I can’t lie…there’s a part of me that is glad it exists.
There was some story a while back about sharks in Florida (I think) consuming cocaine after drug dealers dumped it off a boat…
I always kind of hoped Elizabeth Banks would be inspired to direct a sequel.
I went to it in the cinema and noticed an implausible number of Irish names in the credits, so I looked it up.
I’d love to know if it passes for the Carolinas (or wherever it’s supposed to be) to an American.
From memory, it’s a good time, not a long time.
And filmed in Wicklow, famous for its bears.
The 90s was a great time for science-driven-drama…what was going on with that? Something in the water?
Came home from (finally) seeing Copenhagen, one of my all time most beloved plays, and watched a rocket launching to the moon.
Can’t decide if that’s thematically appropriate or not.
The more Irish writers do a ‘take’ on Chekhov, the more tempted I am to do a play about the post-colonial malaise of Irish playwrights obsessed with Chekhov.
It will appeal to an audience of precisely Me, and will dig deep into the founded/unfounded guilt about not being ‘nice’ to the Anglo-Irish.
Why is it so slow?
They have a system called Hawkeye for GAA matches in Ireland, and it doesn’t slow things down nearly so much. Hurling is a much faster sport than soccer, admittedly, but I don’t understand why the gaps yawn on for so long.
I have a running debate with My Brother the Economist about why Hollywood is dying.
I say it’s the underlying economic forces that are slowly crushing the life out of the industry.
He says it’s a form of cultural group think.
I’m still startled at the sides we have both taken in this argument.
Deep Space Nine has the Watchmen problem, I think.
As in, only someone who profoundly understood the story-telling Rules of the genre/universe could break them and tell an effective story.
I like SNW, but most of Nu-Trek is written by people who don’t understand what the Rules do for the story.
I have always thought that one of the aspects of Potter that makes it uniquely suitable for adaptation is that the books shift genres - horror to time travel to sports story to political thriller etc etc.
There has to be a way to get really interesting with that in a screen adaptation
My belief that Ireland should never take the lead until the 91st minute is getting a lot of fuel from this match.
Yes, I AM shouting advice at professional footballers who cannot hear me. My Thursday is shaping up fine, thank you so much.
I know it’s a cliche, but the amount of diving in men’s football is so annoying to watch.
The women’s teams don’t go in for this nonsense!
Ireland have pulled ahead 18 minutes into the match.
This is not good for my blood pressure. Concentration span of gnats. #coybig
Headline of the year (so far)?
…why is the sink in the bedroom and not beside the toilet?
I’m not sure, but I’m thinking Bad Reasons.
It’s reminding me of some of the mad houses I’ve seen in the West of Ireland, where it’s like a house has been built around another house. Too many doors and unexpected staircases - it’s like living in a French farce, people keep appearing through entrances you didn’t know existed.
