The Sigla Blog

Hilarious stuff from Harry Enfield’s Television Programme, partly inspired by:
a) today is International Women’s Day. Celebrate it.
b) the kind of spam mail that pops in Shane’s letterbox. Did you know that empowerment can be yours for an IWD discounted rate of €125?
c) many conversations about women, men, motherhood, mothers, feminism, blogging etc I had with […]

Annette recently confessed that she’s addicted to Smith Magazine’s Six Word Memoirs, and challenges people to come up their life manifesto in the same amount of words.
I’ve posted before about Six Word Short Stories, and both the idea of summing up a person or a narrative in six words reminds me of something I read […]

Every time there’s a mention of the film Teeth, I can’t wait to see it. If you haven’t heard about it, New York Magazine sums it up as the story of “Dawn, a high-school student with a fanged, carnivorous vagina that exacts bloody revenge on all males who dare go near it.” Now the magazine […]

The new issue of the excellent Dublin Review of Books is online. Unlike many similar publications, it’s completely free and you read the entire articles. Of particular interest this month are reviews of Michael Foot: A Life and A Lover of Unreason: The Life and Tragic Death of Assia Wevill about the love triangle between […]

Does this qualify as a music post? My brother sent this to cheer me up earlier and this musical puss is amazing. Wait for the duet bit later on - Disco Fred has been sitting beside me all a-quiver watching it. Poor little mutt nearly fell off the couch at the sight of a feline […]

Last week, a chance conversation with a friend revealed our mutual love of Napoleon Dynamite, one of the funniest films ever. It totally cheers me up and given that my RSI has reared up again with a vengeance, I could do with a laugh. As much as I love Jon Heder, his geeky internet-obsessed bro […]

Thanks to Empire State View for introducing me to Hoovers and Sledgehammers. Feel free to classify their comedy/music hybrid yourself but the track ‘Joyridin’ reminds me of Rats and Tomo from RTE’s excellent Paths to Freedom. Who can forget the immortal golf conversation between snobby barrister Jeremy and our hero Rats?
Jeremy: “What’s your golf […]

The following was overheard when I was in St. James’ hospital last night. If anyone has any idea who they might actually be referring to, I’d love to know.
Woman: Do ye know Padre Pio?
Man: What, yer man who drives the taxi?

Music bloggers will love this piece of genius, (thanks Ciaran) the fictional story of psycho music promoter Clell Tickle and his mission to plug Tapes n Tapes. Watch out for the bit where he gets his muscle goon to hassle the ‘Editor’ of Pitchfork into giving the album a good review (”7.4! 8.3!”). Tapes n […]

Currently racing up the French charts is ‘Coup de Boule’, which literally translates as ‘headbutt’. The video is here and another one complete with even more Zidane footballing trangressions can be found here:.
If anyone can translate any of it, feel free to share.

It seems that seems that no one, not even the Ann Summers sex shops, are averse to jumping on the World Cup advertising bandwagon. They’re currently using a version of the famous shot of Bobby Moore holding the World Cup aloft in their Irish shop windows. Except it’s advertising their Rampant Rappit vibrators. And it’s […]

If like me, you’ve been mostly burned so far at Cheltenham (what’s with all these 33-1 nags having the cheek to win?), there may soon be an alternative. According to Popbitch, there’s a new pig-racing craze in Russia - and it’s getting very serious.

“Piglets are being trained to run and swim by coaches
in Moscow as […]