Year: 2003

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More bleddy beasties! No! In the deep dank past of this website, we spent a lot of typing raving on about the lake monster mythology of Ireland. Then we bored ourselves to death with, and shut our gobs. There's so many lake monster articles on blather.net, we don't know where to start recommending from. NOW though, Nick Sucik, a young American chap with whom we are acquainted, has put together a whopping big website about Irish water beasties at www.irishlakemonsters.com Lethal Lutra Erne Peist Savage Controversies Blather on Tour Mysterious Achill Try a search for lake monsters on blather.net

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Blather goes surfing through the mists of time. Kind of... Well, in the interests of science (and staving off the mind-numbing, soul-destroying tedium that is my miserable pathetic life) we here at Blather Paranormal Investigations Inc., decided to build a time machine. Well, ok. Not exactly. My early flirtations with worm-holes, flux capacitors and white coats have left me a little vexed. As was Jasper, my girlfriend's cat, who cheerfully helped me with an early experiment involving a particle accelerator, a tin of tuna chunks and a short trip to the outer Hebrides. He is, apparently, recovering well. In 14th century Russia... So, enough farting around. We?ve gone to the only reliable source on the whole planet for advice on such matters: the web. Some cursory surfing led us across a few gems, including this piece which informs us that worm-holes are indeed the way to go. The only difficulty...

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You know, if I didn?t know better, I?d say I was feeling good? Finally, some good news. Yesterday saw the launch of the British mission to Mars. The Mars Express orbiter and it?s more famous passenger, the Beagle2, launched yesterday from Kazakhstan without any perceivable hitches. The Beagle2 is due to land on the surface of the red planet on Christmas day. You can read all about the Beagle2 mission here. It?s events like this, that fill us here at Blather Paranormal Investigations Inc. with a warm fuzzy glow. You know that sort of rosy-tinted tingle? The wonderful feeling that despite the fact that monsters like Saddam Hussein and George Bush are holding sway on our little blue-white orb, there are still scientists on earth who are actually working to better the lot of mankind? People who have devoted their lives to furthering human knowledge and expanding the boundaries of...

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Wonderful, touching and inventive. Get and see it. Secretary is a gem. An absolute gem of a movie. Superb dialogue, wonderful acting, crisp, minimal direction (is Shainberg the new Soderbergh?) and a catchy, quirky soundtrack make this the must see comedy of the summer' that's if you can honestly call this a comedy. Perhaps the clearest pigeonhole you could shove this into is 'romantic comedy', but that would barely begin to do the movie justice. The story concerns Lee, a young woman who has just been released from a mental institute where she was being treated for an obsessive-compulsive disorder, who decides (upon returning home) that she needs to get her first real job. She spots an advert asking for a secretary with typing skills and meets the deranged lawyer Edward Grey (James Spader). What develops is a wonderfully quirky relationship between the two, which is based upon a mutual...

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On the trail of weirdness in the South of France I arrived in Rennes-le-Chateau at around 4pm on December 21st 2002. The car thermometer was reading 18 degrees - some winter's day! While driving through the nearby village of Couiza, I could see R-l-C on a hill above. Mere minutues away, I thought. In fact, it was 4km and countless hairpin bends later. And a crazy old hippy, his Fiat Uno covered in stickers, who came barelling around a corner, nearly hit me, then honked like it was my fault annd waved his fist before barrelling on. Rennes-le-Chateau just about fits on the top of a high, almost conicle hill, the slower slopes having ruined medieval keeps here an there. There's not much to the village - The Sauniere church and museum appears to be the only source of economy here, other mercantile activies having being long won by nearby...

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The duck and weird duo again Carrying on from the Odd Couple and Urban Nature, I've just been outside. The duck, and the weird duo were in place. I came by again a few minutes later, but yer man and the duck had fecked off. She's wearing wellies again.

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Preserve an ancient site... Friends of Tara website launch: www.friendsoftara.com Tara, in case you don't know, was the seat of the high kings of Ireland. Megalithomania website on Tara

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"Through The Glass Darkly" now available online From Ian Thuillier: "Through The Glass Darkly", which has just become available on-line at the Harry Thuillier website - www.harrythuillier.com As you know the proceeds of Harry's first book of works are being donated to the Merchant's Quay Project, a drugs rehabilitation charity in Dublin. We thank you once again for your support in purchasing the book, and we will also keep you informed of further updates with regards exhibitions and launches Harry Thuillier on hellshaw.com Blather article on p45 about Harry

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A word on Spike Lee's latest... Champagne for my real friends, and real pain for my sham friends - Monty 25th Hour, the latest joint from director Spike Lee, is easily one of the most rounded movies I've ever seen. Starring Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Pepper, Rosario Dawson, Anna Paquin and Brian Cox, 25th Hour is the story of the last day of a man's 'life'. Monty Brogan (Norton), an Irish American drug dealer, is going to prison tomorrow. He's understandably depressed. The movie traces his movements around Manhattan as he deals with his present and his future. Did his girlfriend Naturelle rat on him to the cops? Are his best friends Jacob and Frank (Hoffman, Pepper) really his friends? Monty isn't a bad guy. Yes, he sold drugs... but he's a nice guy. People like him. The movie opens with him saving a dog from death -...

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The virus is from space... or cats? Ok, in the news today, we have Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, of the Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology, who is claiming that the SARS virus came from outer space. Read the article in The Guardian. Meanwhile, a boffin in Hong Kong, Professor Yuen Kwok-yung, is claiming that SARS comes from civet cats, which are apparently a delicacy in Southern China. From Reuters. Stay tuned, we'll keep collecting the theories