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Raising my Eire
Mar. 19th, 2007 10:43 amSo, apparently, it was St. Patrick's Day this weekend. Despite having a Gaelic-descended surname and suchlike, I really don't have any cultural identification with Ireland, so my awareness of the holiday is sort of lax. I think the closest I came to celebrating the holiday was watching an MST3K episode with an "Irish Spring" riff, and watching An Evening With Kevin Smith - cause he was raised Catholic.
Yeah, I got nothin. Didn't even drink.
Did do a movie night last night, sort of - got off to a late start, so we ended up indulging in a couple episodes of Police Squad ( in COLOR ) and made it a short evening.
Up until five minutes ago, I had famed comic book writer and novelist Warren Ellis on my friends list (but not vice versa, of course), but I realized that he's basically kind of a dick, and though some of his posts on LJ are moderately clever, they're just a pile of unnecessary negativity. He did a little whine about people wishing him a happy St. Patrick's day over the weekend.
I found this portion telling : "If you want to celebrate St Pat’s today, eat a raw potato, build a house out of peat and get yourself shot by an Englishman."
Har har. Isn't he funny? Peat houses and raw potatoes and religiously motivated violence - because those are, apparently, the essence of Irishness. Now, I don't imagine he's really racist, or even culturally insensitive - but as a snarky joke it falls flat. It's all venom, with no bite.
On the other hand, the guy who responded to the post comparing St. Pat to a 5th century Samuel L. Jackson? BRILLIANT!
Yeah, I got nothin. Didn't even drink.
Did do a movie night last night, sort of - got off to a late start, so we ended up indulging in a couple episodes of Police Squad ( in COLOR ) and made it a short evening.
Up until five minutes ago, I had famed comic book writer and novelist Warren Ellis on my friends list (but not vice versa, of course), but I realized that he's basically kind of a dick, and though some of his posts on LJ are moderately clever, they're just a pile of unnecessary negativity. He did a little whine about people wishing him a happy St. Patrick's day over the weekend.
I found this portion telling : "If you want to celebrate St Pat’s today, eat a raw potato, build a house out of peat and get yourself shot by an Englishman."
Har har. Isn't he funny? Peat houses and raw potatoes and religiously motivated violence - because those are, apparently, the essence of Irishness. Now, I don't imagine he's really racist, or even culturally insensitive - but as a snarky joke it falls flat. It's all venom, with no bite.
On the other hand, the guy who responded to the post comparing St. Pat to a 5th century Samuel L. Jackson? BRILLIANT!
