Over 500 protestors have reoccupied Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan this evening. At 8:20 pm this evening the OWS General Assembly sent out a text message stating that they had returned to the park and urging others to join them. The move comes on the sixth month anniversary of the protest movement. New York Police Department presence is reportedly heavy. Continue reading
A new trailer for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus has hit the web. Much like the first trailer, this one is only about a minute long, but it conveys so much more (without really telling us a thing about the plot). Hit the jump and check it out!
Thanks to Mrugby08 for pointing out that the full trailer is now online. Embedded after the jump.
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Way back in the annals of history, between the time when the fairies hid under the hills and the English came and screwed the pooch, had a very different cuisine, if you can call a backwater European country’s hunting and gathering to be cuisine. Continue reading
I don’t like beer. I haven’t liked it since 1985 when I was drinking Budweiser products at the basement of the Sigma Chi house at UW:Madison. It isn’t snobbery, I’m just not a fan of the taste. I’ve struggled over the years to properly celebrate St. Patrick’s Day without drinking Guinness, Harp or the gawdawful green beer. Then I met my husband and everything changed.
My husband’s ancestors are known as ‘Wine Geese.” What are Wine Geese? Well it comes from Wild Geese, which refers to exodus of Irish soldiers to France at the end of the 1600’s following the Willamite-Jacobite war. The damn Catholics and Protestants always fighting. Catholics were forced to skip town. Wine Geese refers to Irish emigrants who became involved in the wine trade in other countries. Continue reading
This is the day when people do and say things that are probably offensive to most people who are actually Irish. Continue reading