Martin McGrath
Tries to be funny, often fails. Irish, Labour, LFC, NUJ & CIPR. Has a PhD, isn't afraid to use it. University lecturer in PR, branding & design, also sometime journalist, writer & editor. Will work for karma. "He's not angry, he always sounds like that."
- Brazilian outfits...
- The Winter Olympics opening ceremony has gone heavy on the "too much cheese before bedtime dream" aesthetic.
- I am beginning to worry that my FT Alphaville "Still Right. Still Poor." tote bag won't be as funny when the "Still Wrong. Still Hodling" brigade are no longer fictionally wealthy.
- Aaronofsky started his career with 5 films (Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler & Black Swan) which I admire His career has been in a spiral ever since "On This Day... 1776" is embarrassing, not just because of the AI slop. He's managed to make 4 minute episodes feel interminable
- I sincerely hope that Tony Blair's mobile phone is steadily filling up with messages from Gordon Brown going "I FUCKING TOLD YOU SO" over and over and over again.
- "Never mind Manufacturing Consent – have a read of Not Giving A Shit About Consent. I thought Chomsky cared about power and exploitative elites? Still, nice photo of him laughing it up with Steve Bannon." Zing... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- I don't care what anyone says, I won't really believe Mandelson's career is dead until i see it nailed inside a lead-lines box, encased in concrete and then dropped to the bottom of the Marianas Trench (and, even then, I'd want it watched 24 hours-a-day, just in case...)
- ORAC's granddaddy...
- The oldest adage in journalism is, surely, "don't upset the advertisers" #cynical_hat_on
- Whatever I might have said in the recent past, football is a brilliant game. #lfc
- The notion that America has lost out from having an open economy in a free trade world is nonsense, but it is useful rhetoric to obscure the fact that the power and wealth that America has accumulated as global hegemon is concentrated in a tiny number of hands in a chronically unequal society
- Watched Wonder Man today. Bloody loved it. A funny bit of Hollywood fiction, two great leads, and enough respect for the (frequently abused, third-tier) Simon Williams character to make it fun for fans without carrying any Marvel baggage (even with Trevor Slattery). My only complaint...
- Dan Ariely? Really.
- Duke’s student newspaper is all over this. Neither Ariely nor the university are saying anything so far www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
- Weirdly, I had always assumed Sophia Money-Coutts was a parody bit (and that "Money-Coutts" was a bit too on the nose to be really funny) - I am disappointed to discover that she is real (for certain values of "real")
- I am for diversity in announcer accents as much as the next non-RP speaking oik, but you need to pick your battles. There's a Channel 4 trail for "Chateau DIY" that asks you to "Join twelve intrepid Jews*..." (that's what I'm hearing) and it is just too plausible. * "duos" apparently
- Reposted by Martin McGrathEvery ad now
- I am not watching Irish Traitors but I am enjoying my timeline filling up with English people who are shocked that the Irish aren't English.
- Shamone!
- I think what this blithering, moronic bollocks really reveals is that women are too clever to put up with this self-obsessed man-child
- This is marvellous. He's even worse than the headline might make you think (gift link) Celibacy taught me I’m too clever to find love www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/15a11f3...
- Watched One Battle After Another at the weekend. It was... cartoonish? I liked bits - the final car chase is well directed - but lots missed a mark. Penn was outshone by his haircut. DiCaprio mined every cliche. The passcode sequence was too long and not funny. The revolution shouldn't be televised.
- Reform are going to look so much like 2024's Tories that I'm beginning to wonder whether Keir Starmer's genie is back on the job...
- This might be the final straw for my relationship with @nytimes.com ... today's Spelling Bee puzzle is refusing to accept "BOLLOCKED* as the (best ever) pangram.
- One thing that gives me hope is that these idiots are too lazy and greedy to do fascism properly. Say what you like about the Nazis, but at least they put the hours in: "Herr Heydrich thanks you for your invitation to Wannsee but thinks that the final solution should be arranged on jet skis..."
- Pick up... "Yet when they first took to the streets in 1829, the thousand officers of Home Secretary Robert Peel’s Metropolitan Police were not welcomed as protectors but condemned as ‘blue devils’ a ‘plague of blue locusts’ by Englishmen suspicious they would be used to crush political opposition"
- Sometimes you think higher education has changed completely and universities will never be the same. And the two lads walk past you with one-person sized, Co-op, pepperoni pizzas under their arms and you feel strangely reassured
- One of the problems of living in the sunny south of France is that you never think to buy a draft excluder. #thatsafootballjoke #Marseilles #LFC
