Tommy Collison

Tommy Collison

Student and raconteur.

The blog is a mix of music, technology and personal photographs and anecdotes. Occasionally written for The Sunday Times, The Sunday Business Post, Face Up! and Simply Zesty.

Currently a 5th year in secondary school in Limerick, Ireland.

When not studying, blogging or playing drums, I’m probably trying to find the perfect ratio of peanut butter to jam in PB&J sandwich.

Speaking at a Leviathan Education debate

Email: tommy@collison.ie, I’m @tommycollison on Twitter.

Quotes

“The best writing is rewriting.”
- E. B. White

“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”
- Einstein

“Chess is a sport. A violent sport.”
- Marcel Duchamp

“What’s coming will come, and we’ll meet it when it does”
- Rubeus Hagrid, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

“Being young was a hellish punishment. I feel bad for all my young fans. But I cannot help you — just grow up already.“
-Bryan Lee O’Malley, writer of the Scott Pilgrim series.

“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys – to woo women – and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.”
— John Keating, Dead Poet’s Society.

”There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.”
- Anthony Rapp

“There just isn’t enough televised chess.”
- David Letterman