Dublin

Getting ready for old Paddy

st paddys

Tomorrow is a big day here on the green island. Thousands of people will down the first pint at 0900 hours and wear green to celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day. Everyone’s Irish on the 17th of March, it’s a beautiful concept really. So what do you do on Saint Patrick’s if you’re in the heart of Ireland? Unfortunately, you work if you’re Swedish …

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Even Stockholm (Limerick to be precise) has picked up on it properly this year:

Patrick's Day on Limerick

Picture taken by Joel Jonsson.

See what others have to say about Saint Patrick’s Day.

OscarKarlsten.com, finally mine

According to DomainTools, oscarkarlsten.com came under mansion ownership on the 3rd of October. I just forgot to mention it. Worth a mention is; when Keith registered it, he put up a splash saying nothing but ‘boobs’, very concise and straight forward if you ask me.

I’ll leave the ‘boobs’ up there for awhile, but redirect the domain here. After all, ‘boobs’ is part of my life now.

Quantum of Solace

Just came back from the cinema. We went to see the new Bond movie Quantum of Solace which was a real action-extravaganza movie, what Daniel Craig lacks in class – he certainly makes up with his fists. Quantum of Solace is co-written by Paul Haggis who also wrote Crash, which makes the story surprisingly thin. I know it’s a Bond movie, and that there may be little room for playing around, but it still comes up oddly ‘short’.

The synopsis on IMDB: “Seeking revenge for the death of his love, secret agent James Bond sets out to stop an environmentalist from taking control of a country’s water supply.”

The second part of this sentence is what really disturbs me, “an environmentalist taking control of a country’s water supply”, c’mon! What happend to the Russians that just wanted to mess around and blow up the world with nuclear for monetary fame? It is almost too right, and too perfect for our time if you ask me.

But still. Bond is always Bond, and action is always action. I enjoyed it.