Me and the Meedja
While the Irish Blog Awards dealt my half-hearted desire for anonymity a near-fatal blow, it seems I'm about to be terminally outed as the blogging fool that I am.
This week's Limerick Leader will (apparently) carry an interview with yours truly about fústar.org, the Irish blogosphere, and other matters of limited interest. Not only that, but (thanks to the photographer who popped round this afternoon) there'll be a photo of me sitting at a PC looking (I fear) pale and socially awkward. Copernicus suggests (rather meanly) that I'll be taunted in the streets by the 'cool kids' forever more – "Nerdy likes his bloggy-wog! Naaa, na, na, naaa, na!" etc.
I have no idea what the headline will be, but trust (since the journalist is a friend of a friend) that it won't be of the embarrassing "Local Lad Loves his Blog" variety. My darling girl, focusing on my recent return, empty-handed, from the awards ceremony, suggests that "Local Nerd Fails Limerick" would be more appropriate…
By the way, the latest fustar.info interview has been transcribed1 and Part One should (hopefully) be up tomorrow. Watch this space.
Update [22 March]: The fustar.info interview formatting is slow going so it might be tomorrow (Thursday) before it's posted. Worth waiting for though.
- I decided against the podcasting option. [back]
March 21, 2006
16 responses to Me and the Meedja
Scans will be expected.
You’ll be waiting Simon…
No need to worry about scans, the leader is published on line every monday morning – http://www.limerickleader.ie/
with pics and everything.
There aren’t any pics on the online version, are there? I thought it was just text-based…
if you look right now you can see a picture of truck mashing into the side of punch’s. i had a fantastic time here in landan emailing around a story including pic of a west limerick farmer in a 4×4, shot gun in hand, as he protected his herd against cattle rustlers. now i just leave my stuff lying around the office and i know its not going anywhere.
check out the headline on this!!
http://www.limerickleader.ie/issues/20050305/index.html
So, is Limerick now the rustling capital of Ireland? Steaks all round!
The poor people of Roscommon must be devastated.
I suspect the ‘poor’ peope of Roscommon might know a lot more about this than they’re letting on, that or it was those Tipp bastards as usual.
(The article was published in March 2005) – that’s 12 months of me being, be extension, the scariest guy in the office.
Fustar no doubt has his own theory about what really lies behind the spate of cattle abductions.:
Strange lights in the sky: Ryanair flights to Marbella? Is it the top of the cement factory or is someone, or something conducting strange autopsies on limerick livestock….duddle ee do do do?
Did you ever hear that mournful lowing that seems to come across the water from one of those islands in the estuary? You know, Kirren Island…
That’s where they filmed that Lost thing isn’t it? Or, rather, Losht.
“Local Nerd Fails Limerick”
Brilliant
for those of you who need it, this may well induce a chuckle:
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1737533,00.html
At the risk of exposing the slightly dubious reading tastes of Copernicus (and me) – isn’t Kirren Island the island in The Famous Five?
Never having read The Famous Five (I was a Secret Seven man) I wouldn’t know…but I’m sure Copernicus does.
No sign of my pic in the County edition of the Leader (published today). Perhaps I’m too much of a ‘slicker’ to warrant inclusion…
The Secret Seven was for very small, semi-literate children whereas the Famous Five was much more challenging material.
And yes, FF is indeed the source for Kirren Island. I smell an adventure…
“The Secret Seven was for very small, semi-literate children whereas the Famous Five was much more challenging material.”
Oooh, excuse me your Lordship!
So what would you call (Alfred Hitchcock Presents) The Three Investigators? I used to love that too (particularly their hideaway in the junkyard). Still I was obviously a semi-literate child…so what would I know?
By the way, our PC suffered a fatal seizure the night before last so I’ve been forced to come over to my local internet café to check my mail, post comments etc.
Will hopefully be buying a replacement over the weekend so there shouldn’t be that much disruption to blogging activities but if I seem to be absent, that’s the reason.