Sorry for the tease in my last post about the time when I worked with a young Pierce Brosnan on a Celtic rock musical I co-wrote for the Edinburgh Festival. I remember Pierce very well, in fact, I gave him a lift back to London from Edinburgh in my battered van with a goat [...]
Archive for December, 2007
Did naked Pierce Brosnan measure up to 007?
Posted in Books, Film/screenwriting, Music, tagged 007, Callinan, Celtic, Edinburgh Festival, Flynn, James Bond, naked, phallus, Pierce Brosnan, rock opera, theatre on December 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I saw Pierce Brosnan naked
Posted in Film/screenwriting, Music, tagged Callinan, Celtic, Edinburgh Festival, giant phallus, James Bond, musical, naked, Pierce Brosnan, ring cycle, rock opera on December 27, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I went back to Edinburgh with my wife, who hadn’t been in the city since we were involved with a Celtic rock opera at the Fringe many years ago. It’s a beautiful city with normal licensing laws (unlike in the past when you couldn’t get a drink after ten o’clock). I could still remember the [...]
40 lashes or look good naked
Posted in Politics, tagged Christianity, hedonism, Islam, naked, punishment, religion, sex on December 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Nothing would seem to demonstrate the absurdity of the human condition in terms of hedonism on the one hand and blind adherence to dogma than a TV show in the UK and the recent accusation of a UK teacher in Sudan for blasphemy against Islam.
A teacher called Gillian Gibbons was imprisoned in Sudan (released after [...]