The Blog of G

OK, here’s the concept, for the launch of the Dublin Fringe festival, the organisers thought it would be a great idea to dye the Liffey pink as a publicity stunt. So I happened along with my trusty camera to snap this once in a lifetime oppurtunity.

Thing is as a publicity stunt it sucked the people on the street were wondering what had happened to pollute the river like this! there was no advertising anywhere that I saw and well no Fringe festival to be honest??? all very confusing for the literally tens of people that were standing around watching the spectacle.

You have to wonder why there was no one on O’Connell street bridge handing out flyers or even posters about to draw attention to the fringe festival, or am I finally just getting old and not able to “get it” anymore? Is this the new thing now then? is it? At least these guys looked like they were having some fun but again nothing to explain what was happening…

I have to admit to being tempted to tell a few tourists that the Luas had derailed crossing the bridge at Heuston station and that the red river was the result of the contents of the passengers vascular systems having emptied into the river, but then I decided not to tempt fate. you never know.

Yes it’s that time, the time to put it all out there on the line and see if I can stick with this plan.

So What’s the plan? Well, simply put I am going to start three regular weekly features, this is what’s scary I’m commiting to doing these weekly and well this blogging thing is a hobby from which I generate no income and not only does it take time but it takes idea’s. So I’m gonna give it a go and see if I can manage this. Who knows maybe it’ll all just flow and I’ll take to it like a duck to water.

Anyway, enough of the nerves, on to more important thing’s. Like what are these weekly features gonna be? The first your going to see, will be available from tomorrow and it’s called (insert trumpet fanfare here) “Wednesday is gadget day” and strangely it’s gonna be all about gadgets and it’ll be available (hopefully) every Wednesdays from then on

The next one will appear on fridays, called “F1 Friday” No surprises here either, for the forseeable future, I’m gonna run articles on Formula 1 although I do reserve the right to post about other forms of motorsport if I so chose.

The final feature, for now, will have the stunningly original title of “Music Mondays” and this feature will have relevance to music. That may take the form of an album review or a rant on why the music industry is shrinking, or even just an esoteric rambling about how certain music makes me “feel”

So there you have it, as you’ve guessed I tend to prefer the “it does wot it says on the tin approach” to all that marketing fluff, some people seem to enjoy these days.

I do of course reserve the right to stop any or all of these regular features should I see fit at any time in the future, but prolly the best way to stop that from happening and maybe even to steer the direction of these is through your comments, I know there are people from all over the world reading The blog of George fairly regularly), much to my surprise (I really don’t think I’m that interesting) and I would love to hear from you. so please feel free to comment below.