BLOURNAL
Surely it’s still Monday somewhere in the world…
Goddamn, I’m feeling fucking knackered right now, which is probably a good thing at this time of the night. I should be getting ready to head up the wooden hill but I just wanna sit up, listen to music and watch whatever’s on TV. What can I say? I think there’s just a part of me that likes being a night owl. It’s pretty irresistible, I’m not gonna lie.
Nine Inch Noize
By the way, I forgot to mention this yesterday but I did manage to catch up with Nine Inch Noize’s set on the Coachella YouTube livestreams — thank you, Coachella Replay — and holy shit, it was fucking spectacular.
Another weekend is at an end
So the weekend is at an end once again and I just got back home from the pub over an hour ago. Truth be told, I probably would’ve left a little sooner but my dad wanted to watch the tail end of the Masters tournament. I’m not really into golf so I didn’t pay much heed to it but I’m happy to see Rory McIlroy win. It seems like he had a bit of a rough start but kudos to him for coming out on top once again.
Hello again…
Hello, folks. Just thought I’d try and write something while I’m out in the pub. As per usual, I wanted to have something written sooner. Alas, I always feel like I have a lot to say but I don’t know how to say it, but I’ll try my best.
Michael Patrick
So, Michael Patrick passed away on Wednesday at the all-too-young age of 35.
For those of you who don’t know the name, he was a local actor and writer who worked on film, TV, radio and theatre.
The latest edition of “I’m not American but…”
Not in the best form this morning after all of Trump’s bluster yesterday. Actually, “bluster” seems like a huge understatement in this case because the nutjob literally threatened to enact genocide over his social media if he didn’t get what he wanted.
Happy Easter
Hi, folks. Just thought I’d pop onto the blournal to wish you all a happy Easter if you celebrate the occasion. If not, then I wish you the happiest of holidays whatever it is you celebrate at this time of year.
A Good Friday update that doesn’t have anything to do with Good Friday
Hi, folks. Not really much to say today. Just wanted to pop my head out to remind everyone that I’m still around trying to make sense of this increasingly insane world we live in and I’m still trying to figure out my place in it.
OK… you got me
OK. I’ll admit. I have fallen for at least one April Fools’ joke today. Earlier this morning before I went to the gym, I saw an announcement on The Fright Club NI’s Facebook page that they’d managed to get Robert Englund for their upcoming Strange and Unusual event in Ballymena and I got excited for a couple of seconds before I read the fine print and remembered that today was April Fools Day.
Maybe the real April Fools were the friends we made along the way…
So, I was initially thinking about naming this blournal entry: “Make April Fools’ Day Great Again'“, especially since nearly everything to do with Trump and the MAGA movement feels like a needlessly dragged out April Fools joke that refuses to end.
An insomniac’s brief thoughts on the Insomniac Spider-Man games…
I’ve spent the last couple of nights finishing up the main story campaign and collecting all the trophies — aside from the New Game Plus trophy, which I’ll get somewhere down the line — in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, so it’s easy to why I haven’t been much sleep as of late. Sitting at a laptop typing up blournal entries at well after two in the morning certainly doesn’t help matters either, but I want to try and strike while the iron’s… relatively hot.
Can’t really think of a title for this one…
OK so I was gonna write something last night before I went out to the pub, but I couldn’t really figure out what exactly I wanted to say. In general, I feel like I have a lot to say about so many different things but I’ve always struggled to articulate myself. Likewise, my thought process is messy and unfocused so naturally, it’s a huge fucking pain in the ass when I’m trying to translate my thoughts into something even remotely coherent.
Beating brain rot one day at a time…
Once again, it’s that time of the night where I’m not entirely sure if it’s yesterday, today or tomorrow. It is Friday as we’re now in the AM, but it doesn’t really feel that way to me. Today still feels like a Thursday to me. But I digress, I’m not here to pontificate over the grey areas of time. I’m just here to remind everyone that I’m still kicking about.
My belated thoughts on this year’s Oscars
OK so at this point, it’s probably a little untimely of me to be talking about the Oscars. I’m sure most people have already said what needs to be said, but I wanna also offer some of my own two cents.
This was originally going to be a blournal entry about the Oscars
Hi, folks.
So I’m currently in the midst of writing a big, long blournal entry about this year’s Oscars, which I was hoping to have finished and posted earlier today but alas, it’s taking a lot longer to finish than I initially anticipated.
Calling this blournal entry “Untitled” would be perhaps a bit too pretentious… even by my standards
Hi, everyone.
Pardon me if my “blournalling” has been intermittent as of late. I don’t really what to say at this current moment, but don’t interpret that as me saying that I don’t have anything to say. On the contrary, I’m actually kind of overwhelmed by what I have to say.
Spring is springing
It was a surprisingly decent week… at least weatherwise. There’s been the occasional dull day with drizzle and downpour, but there has just as many days with blue skies and sunshine. Granted, it is still kind of chilly at times, but at the moment, the skies are clear in a way that seemed almost impossible even a week ago. Hell, I even managed to eek out a few decent sunset photos over the last two days, which you can see on my Instagram. I might make them available on this website further down the line but… I’m a chronic procrastinator and I want to add some things to the website before I do anything of that.
Another week where not much of note happened
Truth be told, this week was pretty uneventful aside from my trips to Belfast and my midweek night out to Donaghmore. Those were fun days out and provided plenty of craic and good memories for me to look back on, but aside from that… yeah, I didn’t really get up to much this week.
A lot can happen in seven days…
Ugh… I really do let the days run away from me someday. I was hoping to do some blournalling earlier but alas, that didn’t amount to anything.
Did you know that there’s three Friday the 13ths on this year’s calendar alone? Well, if you didn’t, you do now…
OK… so I know Friday the 13th is supposed to be an unlucky day but I think we gotten pretty lucky with the weather today. Yeah, it was a little nippy but the sky was bright blue and even now, there’s no immediate signs that it’s gonna rain. Could this be the day that breaks the currently unbroken streak of rain that has permeated through 2026? Let’s hope so.