My Movies: American Pie

Four teenage boys make a pact, to lose their virginity in time for their “prom”

It stopped being funny after the Universal logo faded from the screen at the start. I can’t even remember how I ended up with this film. I think I bought it from someone on boards.ie thinking that the film was any ways half decent. I was wrong.

The film gets it’s name from a scene where one of the characters humps an apple pie after said confection is used as a metaphor to describe “third base.”

American Pie on IMDB

American Pie 2

Set a year after American Pie, the same group of teenagers set about organising the biggest pary of the Summer

Same crap as the first film,

American Pie 2 on IMDB

Irish independent smear on blogs – we are racists now aparantly

Anyone see this nice complimentary piece on blogging in the Irish Independent claiming that those fringe racist blogs are the more popular ones?

The paper has been smearing bloggers for quite a while, while at the same time ripping off posts from them.

Recently, I have been increasingly drawn into the sweaty-fingered, murky world of the internet blog. It is a world full of possibilities, debate and opinion, but it also never fails to leave a bad feeling in my stomach.

The “journalist” goes off on a rant about how the most popular bloggers are somehow racist and claim that our own race is genetically superior.

This is a load of crap.  The only blogs supposedly originating from this country which contain this content are probably the lowest read

As someone who has received threats of a physical nature from certain members of this ideological  viewpoint I can honestly tell you that these racist bloggers are fiew and far between.

The paper simply trying to create an opportunity for itself to attack an area of new media which is proving to be more interesting than themselves.

50 Limerick bloggers

There are over fifty blogs from Limerick people currently active. Here are the ones I know about:

1. Anton’s Hat: Anton Mannering is the CEO of a company called benchd. A social network for socialising around sports content.
2. Alexia Golez: Technology blogger.
3. Éagsuil: Blog of the arts and culture show on West Limerick 102FM. Comes with podcasted shows as well.
4. Bits from Bruff: What it says on the tin really. Bits and pieces of interest to people from Bruff.
5. Bock The Robber: Offending people since 2006. It’s Bock’s second blogging birthday today, so Happy Blogging Birthday.
6. Braz: Personal blog of Eoghan Brasil.
7. Bruff RFC: The latest goins on from Bruff Rugby Club.
8. Captain Purplehead: Anything could appear on this blog. The author covers a wide spectrum of topics.
9. Cheebah and all that – Limerick: Bringing funk and hip hop acts to the underground at Baker Place, as well as views on Limerick Culture.
10. Croom and the Maigueside: Local bits and pieces, as well as some excellent photos from Croom.
11. Cupid Stunt: AnotherLimerick blog containing views on a wide range of subjects.
12. Daniel K. Sullivan: Former senate election candidate, this is his personal blog, which covers mostly politics, both here and abroad.
13. derfen: Originally from Limerick, now living in New Mexico, USA.
14. Eat, Drink, Live: the first of a whole host of foodies from Limerick.
15. For the Love of Cats: Here kitty kitty kitty.
16. FUSTAR: If it is “out there” it will be here, from manky toys to nostalgia.
17. Greetings Earthlings: From the makers of FUSTAR comes this blog.
18. Hangar Queen: Originally from Limerick, now living in Washington DC.
19. Impact Theatre blog: The blog of Limerick’s Impact Theatre Company.
20. Indie Limerick: Music and more from Limerick.
21. In the Little Smoke: Um. This blog.
22. Irish Born Chinese: This long-running blog for people of Chinese origin living in Ireland.
23. Italian Foodies: The award winning blog from Limerick City.
24. John M. Ryan: A civil servant originally from Limerick, now living in the Big Smoke.
25. Kind I Like: Photos of things that look like people.
26. Latchiko: Photoblog. See how the original photo looked before it was touched up.
27. Lette’s Blog: Collete is a student and photographer. This is her personal blog site.
28. Letters on Lunches: Another in a wide selection of Limerick foodie bloggers.
29. Limerick Animal Welfare: The blog site of the Limerick Animal Welfare.
30. Limrikster: Michael C Daly is originally from Limerick but now living in New York.
31. Make A Rainbow: Living life the natural way.
32. Natural Selections: It seems Darwin has a new home.
33. Patrick Collison: It’s the new owner of Limerick Blogger.
34. whatithink: the blog of Paul McCarthy.
35. Pygment: photoblog from Limerick
36. Random Thoughts: Limerick Gal is well, originally from Limerick, and now Living in Atlanta Georgia, USA.
37. Redtrack Music: Not only do we like our grup, we also love our choons. The second music related blog from Limerick.
38. Say What? Ireland: Blog for deaf people based in Limerick.
39. Science, Society Stuff: James McInerney’s blog.
40. Stephen Kinsella PhD: Stephen is a junior lecturer of economics at the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick.
41. Style Treaty: Fashion and lifestyle blog from Maz.
42. The Angry Hedgehog: Random stuff fromJohn James.
43. The Limerick Blogger: My baby is all grown u.
44. Theatre of Noise: It is not one I read often, so am not quite sure what it’s about.
45. There it was – Gone: The blog of John McDermot. Subjects ranging in Music, photography and politics.
46. Three Songs: Event based blog for loca musicians.
47. John Collison: The blog of John Collison. It is this far down on the list as I have it linked as “Transatlantic Itinerant,” which was a more interesting title.
48. Val’s Kitchen: Foodie blog from Valerie.
49. White House Poets: Event based blog for the poets who gather each Wednesday night at the White House Pub on O’Connell Street.
50. You’ve Been Noticed: Business based blog.