January 10th, 2007
Jon Ronson at the IFI
For Christmas, my older brother bought me Jon Ronson’s book Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness. I like Ronson’s column in The Guardian, but figured that a whole book of his narcissistic whining would be a bit too much. Like Woody Allen though, he injects the right amount of humour and isn’t afraid to portray himself as a pedantic arse. As a result, it’s enjoyable and quite funny.
Next week, the IFI presents ‘An Evening with Jon Ronson’, which involves a talk about his work (including clips from his documentaries, Secret Rulers of the World and Tottenham Ayatollah), followed by a Q&A and book signing.
It takes place on Wednesday 17th January at 6.30 pm at the Irish Film Institute in Temple Bar, Dublin. Tickets are €8 and can be bought from the IFI box office or online here:
Read his latest column here or visit his website.
Oh, you might have noticed the book link above, as I’ve just discovered The Book Depository, who unlike Amazon, ship to anywhere in the world for free.
January 10th, 2007 at 10:52 am
BRILLIANT! I am there! Loved ‘Them: Adventures With Extremists’
January 10th, 2007 at 10:56 am
Hope to get along myself, so curious to see how he comes across in person. Mailed you on Monday to your Itsaplane address - did you get it?
January 10th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
that I would like to see. He seems very funny in person. and them was excellent.
January 10th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
nope. send it to my Tribune one instead (umullally@tribune.ie) the itsaplane one is a bit weird at the mo.
January 11th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
I love Jon Ronson…”Them” is one of the best non fiction books I’ve ever read, funny, serious, weird, has it all. Also loved his recent Deal or No Deal article, not got the new one yet but can’t wait to see this talk!
January 13th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
Hi Sinead,
when I worked in the shop on da southside he came in one day and signed a copy of “Them” for me and was v lovely. Should be a good night. Enjoying your new year blogs. delighted to hear your a judge on the Choice awards, i remember hearing , the winner being announced on the radio with u last year. Dx.
January 14th, 2007 at 9:49 pm
I’ve booked a ticket (concession rate even though my IFI membership ran out about a week ago - I’ll sneak in tomorrow and renew)
January 15th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
I’ve seen him before (Winchester, 2000) and he was most entertaining. Though the tone of the talk was (of course) whimsical and comic, it didn’t stop some rather ‘eccentric’ gentleman in the audience asking an earnest, long-winded (and impossible to follow) question about pyramids on the moon (or some such). Ronson batted it away tactfully by saying that yer man’s theory MIGHT have some validity but that he’d need to have all the facts before him etc.
The eccentric guy looked a bit crestfallen. He’d obviously come along to hear “conspiracy expert” Jon Ronson tell us FACTS about Masonic-alien-bankers (etc) that we could integrate into our belief systems. All we got were a sequence of amusing anecdotes and observations. What a rip off!