Hugh Odling-Smee
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'You never saw so many phonies in all your life' Cinema/history/books. Dundela Loyal. Belfast. https://smeeho7.substack.com/
Colonel : Now answer my question or you’ll be standing tall before the man. Joker : I think I was trying to suggest something about the duality of man, sir. Colonel: The what? Joker : The duality of man. The Jungian thing, sir.
Saw the film. A very enjoyable watch, but a bit hollow and workaday oddly - I think Emily Wilson's point about the script is sound, it only occasionally soared.
Hugh Odling-Smee@smeeho7.bsky.social · last wk.I have neither seen the film not read the interview, but the comments reported here are so full of academic condescension that I'm experiencing PTSD from my time doing a Masters. Do they ever hear themselves? www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
One of my favourite things about the recent FIFA schmoozle was Jim Boyce appearing on Radio 4 and repeatedly referring to Gianni Infantino as 'Johnny Infantino'.
Farewell Franco Baresi, the very epitome of Italian defensive elegance. What are the chances that two brothers could captain two of the biggest teams in a country today? I have fond memories of them exchanging pennants at the derby della Madonnina, when Italy was the world's greatest league.
UEFA has done the right thing, which is surely both a welcome thing of wonder and a certain sign that we are in the End Times
Rest easy Glen Hansard. On our honeymoon in 2007 my wife and I decided to go to a matinee as the rain fell down in Melbourne. We chose to see 'Once' because we were a long way from home. A good choice - the 90s Ireland that made us and impossible, musical romance. youtu.be/LLNhmjtOcC0?...
Interference - Gold (from movie Once)
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I have neither seen the film not read the interview, but the comments reported here are so full of academic condescension that I'm experiencing PTSD from my time doing a Masters. Do they ever hear themselves? www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
‘I would be ashamed to have written any part of this’: Odyssey translator Emily Wilson attacks Nolan blockbuster
Wilson, whose work on Homer’s epic was praised by Nolan, said his film was grandiose and superficial with ‘nothing convincing to say’
theguardian.com
WILDE AT HEART: The ability to laugh at ourselves by laughing at others is very much at the heart of #TheInvite. But what does Pomona make of the #OliviaWilde movie and the low budget #Irishlanguage heist tale #Aontas?.. loveitinpomona.blogspot.com/2026/07/wild... #sethrogen #cinema #penelopecruz
The Beta Band at Vicar Street last night. 'Teddy told me that in Greek, nostalgia literally means “the pain from an old wound.”'
As a little boy, I thought Keegan impossibly glamorous going to play for SV Hamburg. For the extraordinary entertainment he gave us as a player and manager, I don't think he was ever really given the plaudits by the English that he should have. Rest easy Mighty Mouse. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Kevin Keegan: Liverpool legend and former Newcastle United and England manager dies aged 75
Former England captain and manager Kevin Keegan dies at the age of 75, seven weeks after he revealed he had been diagnosed with stage four cancer.
bbc.co.uk
Another wall chart done - thanks to @wsc.co.uk for keeping us right. Not sure if it'll be doable if Gianni gets his 64 team wish.
A good not great world cup, some decent matches but just too much, too much, too much. Now I have to do a runner before I have to pay the sweepstake money out.
Man Disappears into Black Screen
ALT: Man Disappears into Black Screen
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Thank goodness for that. Absolute dogshit from Argentina, memories of Maradona's tears and the sainted Andreas Brehme of 1990.
I know Messi is great at football and all, but I've always thought he was a wee bore at heart. A whiny wee shite.
Hoping Spain score now and then we get twenty minutes of a bloodbath from Argentina, a la 1990.
Galway United used to raffle a hamper of meat at half time and it was more entertaining than this.
Lot of multiculturalism going on here, they'll probably be arrested by ICE after half time.
This is only marginally better than Mussolini's half time show in 1934.