Tommy Collison

@tommycollison • tommy@collison.ie

Month: October, 2009

‘Life as a spectator sport’

I heard this phrase recently, but I’m not 100% sure where. I think it may have been a blogpost, I’m really not certain. It gels well with the people over the past while (when you think about it, I’ve been blogging on one site or another for 2 and a bit years) who’ve felt the [...]

Piano bar

Dublin, you need one. Anyone got any idea what the song is? Oh yes, happy Hallowe’en, all.

What a View…

..but not to a kill, because I’m not James Bond and this isn’t Paris. Apologies for the less-than-desirable quality; I forgot my Flip! and I’ve had to make do with my iPhone to satisfy my otherwise insatiable need to record.

How to stop laughing at inappropriate moments

Yes, very odd and incredibly out of character post, but whatchagonnado. I’m in Hungary this week, you may have noticed/heard. I met a Hungarian women who’d married a Scottish man who owns a Scottish pub here. Because she learnt English in Scotland, she has a rather heavy accent. Hearing her speak was a rather funny [...]

Hungary Zoo

Today, myself and Dad took a trip to Hungary Zoo. I haven’t been to the zoo in aaaaaages.. it’s at least 6 weeks by now, since that September trip with Aoife. I suppose he have to start with the video of me being eaten by a goat.. do I have a choice? :) With that [...]

Funny cos it’s true

Not technically true, actually, because it’s past midnight here in Hungary. Still, it’s a nice (and most true) sentiment. Plus, ‘daddy’s taking us to the zoo laterontoday’ sounds lame. :)

I spy with my little eye…

…something beginning with E if you said ‘entire city’, you were right! :) Well, entire cities perhaps. Buda and Pest are separated by the river, which you can make out in the photograph. This was taken on top of a large-hill-slash-small-mountain yesterday. Weather was clear and sunny. You could see everything, from the lego brick [...]

Autographs

I’ve always loved going to see shows. I’ve always loved acting, even if I knew I’d never do it for a living. It’s one of those things I want to do in my free time, like riding a motorcycle. One thing that I never understood about shows and the theatre are autographs. They’re barely legible [...]

Pixar soars above the competition with Up

Thanks to the swine flu, I didn’t leave the house all week, starting Sunday evening. By Saturday though, cabin fever was threatening to raise my actual temperature back into the danger zone. I decided that the cinema would be an excellent escape, and loaded up the local cinema’s ‘Now Showing’ website to see what was [...]

Thoughts on a plane

Unfortunately not as cool as snakes :( iPhone on Airplane mode? Check. Ok, we can begin. The clock tells me it’s 17:30 but with the stupid hour going back, is that 16:30 or 18:30? I think 17:30 may be correct, because Apple supposedly does this all for me. What would be nice is that while [...]