The Sigla Blog

This week the BBC are showing all three predecessors to George Romero’s latest Zombie instalment, Land of the Dead, which opened last week on the same day as Ireland’s contribution to the Zombie canon, Boy Eats Girl. Last night, watching Dawn of the Dead, I was reminded of the fact that it was re-released […]

While poking around in IMDB trying to find out about a documentary called Murderball. I came across a film called I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney directed by none other than Bennifer (the nom-de-plume still fits seeing as he’s ditched […]

As I’d mentioned last week, The Elegant Variation’s lengthy interview with John Banville was so good, I started dreaming about John Banville. I don’t feel so bad, because Mish confessed to a similar nocturnal experience about the Irish writer. The interview is a broad overview of Banville’s writing, his processes, contemporaries, identity and […]

Watching the United V Blackburn match on Saturday was as much fun as it is generally watching Blackburn most of the time. Rovers haven’t beaten United at Old Trafford in over 40 years - until United’s sorry display on Saturday. The defeat probably stung a little more knowing that Mark Hughes must have learnt a […]

The shortlist for the inaugural Bibliofemme short story competition has finally been announced. Myself and a couple of the femmes had the initial task of trying to whittle down the large number of entries to 20. These were then passed on to Alison Walsh, the Commissioning Editor for Irish imprint Tivoli who no […]

The word “rip-off” is being trotted out a lot at the moment, but there seems to be a big problem with the accuracy with which comedy gigs are advertised here of late.

Earlier this month, Ronnie Corbett, of Two Ronnies fame, played Dublin�s Olympia as part of the Bulmer’s Comedy Festival. Corbett was on […]

I meant to post this earlier, but the working week has ran away with me as usual. After reading this article in last Sunday’s Observer, I started to think that the future was bleak for the dusty non-chain bookshops, especially after the closure of The Winding Stair earlier this year. Then I […]

Today I’m pondering the following things…
* Why people have been giving out about the Franz Ferdinand single Do you Want To. I like it a lot. Currently listening to the new album, You Could Have it So Much Better. I think it’s stomping stuff and I’m usually allergic to bands that are super-hyped. I’ll […]

Apologies for the lack of blogging over the last week, I got so carried away about my holiday I didn’t even think to mention my impending absence with a virtual ‘back in a bit’ notice. I got back late last night from the South of France and yet again I question why any of us […]

A friend sent me this to me, and no, I haven’t been at the sherry (I usually wait until lunchtime at least) but read the following:

“I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid! Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch taem at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it […]

On the cusp of the 1990s, when grunge had the world in its greasy paw, a small Seattle record label called Sub Pop offered an antidote to the steady diet of English indie most music fans had subsisted on for years. While Nirvana sold records in the millions and Pearl Jam scooped up critical acclaim, […]

Lax sports sub-editing must be the last thing on Village’s agenda this week. Vincent Browne’s weekly magazine usually hits the shelves on Friday but publication is on hold today after the publishers were threatened with legal action by George-Lee-plus-showmanship, Eddie Hobbs. Village has been poking around in Hobbs’ background and was to publish a piece […]