I am going to drink some pints tonight
Posted on | February 22, 2008 | 46 Comments
Was in town, didn’t see the book in the shops yet. Assume this is because it’s so awesome they can’t find anywhere to display it without making every other book look completely lame.
Still, I will have some pints of Guinness tonight.
Not that the two are in any way connected. I would have been having pints anyway. I don’t even know why I’m telling you this. I did see somebody fall over having been blown by the wind on Westland Row. They did that thing where they got up really quickly and pretended not be hurt even though they were actually quite hurt.
That’s always funny.
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February 22nd, 2008 @ 4:31 pm
I once saw a man knocked down my a moped on Westmoreland Street. How embarassing!
You would expect the moped to stop on impact and topple gracelessly to one side while the man remained standing. But no.
February 22nd, 2008 @ 4:44 pm
when was the last friday you did not have pints?
That’s a much rarer occurence I would wager.
February 22nd, 2008 @ 4:53 pm
Laughing at other peoples misfortune, sure it the sweetest laugh of all.
February 22nd, 2008 @ 4:54 pm
You must be rather apprehensive about the book Twenty. It will probably be on the shelves tomorrow, either that or as I have long been suspecting them Eastern Europeans employed by Easons don’t do any work. They never know where anything is so I wouldn’t be in the least bit surprised if your book actually was on the shelves and they couldn’t be arsed looking for it. It will probably be really quiet for a week or two then sales will rocket and you’ll be up to your cotton picking eyes and getting all annoyed because everybody wants a piece of you. Enjoy quiet time, I’d say it is going to be great.
February 22nd, 2008 @ 4:59 pm
wise up nonny he is not goin on x fsctor or running for president he is bringing a book out.
Im not trying to rain on the parade here but its just a book ,a first book at that.
Best of luck with it thou twenty,hope you make a blast of cash
February 22nd, 2008 @ 5:03 pm
Shut your face Chanchan, Twenty is gonna be Irelands Britney, he is gonna be famous.
February 22nd, 2008 @ 5:05 pm
Shut your face Chanchan, Twenty is gonna be Irelands Britney, he is gonna be famous.
I am on my shite.
chanchan is correct.
February 22nd, 2008 @ 5:09 pm
So when you are like Brit, Twenty, will you opt for undies or the commando look?
February 22nd, 2008 @ 5:12 pm
I’m a proper lady, I wear underwear at all times.
February 22nd, 2008 @ 5:14 pm
suppose you ll have to shave more too,thats always bastard.
February 22nd, 2008 @ 5:23 pm
he heh
February 22nd, 2008 @ 5:33 pm
People falling over is fucking brilliant.
February 22nd, 2008 @ 5:37 pm
Got knocked off me motorbike once [well more than once, but this is about this once …]. I jumped up so fast that I didn’t realise that I wasn’t actually able to stand … so I lay down again for a while.
I recall the driver of the car standing over me giggling uncontrollably – oh how we laughed!
Ye’re all bad bastards!
A drink sounds good about now.
February 22nd, 2008 @ 5:42 pm
I’m gettin manky tonight.
February 22nd, 2008 @ 5:58 pm
schadenfreude, happyness for sadists
February 22nd, 2008 @ 5:59 pm
got to sort out the latent typing dyslexia
February 22nd, 2008 @ 6:55 pm
Ah, Westland Row, that legendary thoroughfare of Dublin music schools and bookshops… I will get on to the Victory Christian Fellowship of great books immediately and find out what has happened.
Oh, and I want you to know that I will never want any piece of you – shaven or unshaven.
February 22nd, 2008 @ 9:49 pm
Twenty
Hodges Figgis don’t have it stock or on order (checked yesterday). Hughes and Hughes in Stephens Green have it in warehouse and will be in shop in next few days. If you search for it in Waterstones online you see it stocked in CARLISLE, DUMFRIES, LISBURN, NEWRY, SOUTHEND HIGH ST,. What the !$.
Anyway there goes my plan of reading it during the Rubgy match tomorrow.
Dermot
February 22nd, 2008 @ 10:40 pm
I want zee book. I’m-a-gonna go look for it if I get a break during lunch tomorrow. And so help them if they dont have it in stock!
February 22nd, 2008 @ 11:08 pm
I looked again in Eason’s today, everywhere, from Humour to Irish Fiction, from Just-Published to Best-Sellers, but alas, I came away empty-handed.
I did get a few French-English dictionaries into my secret pocket if anyone’s interested. Non? -trois pour le prix de deux?
February 22nd, 2008 @ 11:39 pm
Mine is winging my way to me as I type this and due to arrive on the 28th, which is great but I leave here on the 26th. ‘Twas to have been my plane book too. Hurtling along at massive speed, 35,000 feet above the earth is the best possible way to read all about albino gingers.
February 23rd, 2008 @ 12:58 am
Surprised at Hodges Figgis, they usually carry novel new Irish writers before anyone else?
Waterstones never have anything except the top 100 classics of all time that we all read at school & never want to see again.
The main thing is that Amazon have it in stock!
Best of luck, Twenty, hope you make a million & lash it all on cigarettes & pints : )
When you’re famous, you can tell us what the smoking rooms are like in RTE, BBC & Sky!
February 23rd, 2008 @ 2:00 am
I’m looking forward to hearing the review on the Arts show on radio 1,infact,I can’t fucking wait.
I once nearly ran into a girl on my motor bike,she ended up standing with her legs spread between my front wheel,missed her by a gee hair..literally.
February 23rd, 2008 @ 2:53 am
It’s so exciting, isn’t it Tommy?
I myself nearly touched a Chinese girl’s arse on the Dart one day, a long time ago. I’d say it was only about 8″ away. Still think about it everyday though.
Oh man…..
February 23rd, 2008 @ 3:13 am
well we think that the last time we saw somebody knocked down by the wind it when jay whitlow farted and knocked little sammie off of the bar stool and sammie shouldn’t have had him in the bar anyway because whitlow thinks that children under 10 shouldn’t be drinking pints quite just yet.
February 23rd, 2008 @ 3:52 am
I’m with ChildBride on this one – Amazon will take the pain out of trying to find it a whole hemisphere away.
February 23rd, 2008 @ 3:54 am
btw I’m glad to hear that Twenty, but don’t expect to know what’s proper or not until you’ve had a bit of practice.
February 23rd, 2008 @ 8:54 am
Monday it would be
February 23rd, 2008 @ 2:19 pm
€10.45 in Borders, Blanchardstown today Twenty. One copy on display and it’s mine, all mine!
February 23rd, 2008 @ 3:12 pm
Got my copy today in O’Mahony’s of Limerick for the princely sum of 8.50 as did someone else after me. The girl at the counter had no idea of how it was selling as she wasn’t working the week but she’s finishing at 6pm today and I may know more latter.
February 23rd, 2008 @ 3:32 pm
Ive not seen your book anywhere but then I live in central London and we dont take that sorta crap here! But actually I havent been in the bookstore, if I ask about it the guy will think Im weird but he fancies me anyway.
February 24th, 2008 @ 12:16 am
Special offer 8.99 in dubray books today! Settling in to read it now…all night long, harry potter fan stylee
February 24th, 2008 @ 1:37 am
Hold on €10.45,€8.50 or €8.99,make up your fucking mind twenty. I’ll offer 6 quid.
Ok 7.
February 24th, 2008 @ 6:35 am
I once had to drive past a nasty car accident, there was a severed head on the road that had this surprised look of his face, funny as fuck.
February 24th, 2008 @ 12:52 pm
Twenty,
Rumor has it that royalties from your tome is to be given to the cathal O shirtlifter home for wayward boys,we should be told.
yours in the snug
gurr cake
February 24th, 2008 @ 12:55 pm
All lies, I assure you.
The royalties will be given to Ron in exchange for pints of Guinness.
February 24th, 2008 @ 10:24 pm
Amazon sent me an email to tell me your books was in the post to me.
Fucking bizarre since I don’t remember ordering it!
February 25th, 2008 @ 12:57 am
ahhh, the drunken online order…
February 25th, 2008 @ 1:00 am
TM
The Guy who fell, was he
FALL-ING—-SLOW-LY—EYES—THAT—KNOW—ME…..etc.etc.
February 25th, 2008 @ 9:36 am
Good morning, read your book Saturday and laughed out loud on numerous occasions, with a good story line it was most humorous indeed. My little mofo also found it toughly enjoyable although, I know giving him the book is cheating and I should have made him buy it, nevertheless just when we thought his use of bad language could get no worse, your book managed to take it to an all time low.
I noticed Dubray books have it stocked under bestsellers.
What this business with you and Sunday Tribune’s list of 21st Century Irish Icons, what is that about?
February 25th, 2008 @ 9:59 am
Twenty! Go on. You know you wanna. Make it into an E-Book! It will cater for your readers who are unfortunate enough not to live in Ireland and poor basterds like me who are blind and cant read your paper based one.
Please?
February 25th, 2008 @ 10:12 am
An e-book, eh? I suppose I can check with the publishers and stuff…
February 25th, 2008 @ 10:22 am
Nonny – glad you’re enjoying it/enjoyed it. It’s not that sweary though.
February 25th, 2008 @ 11:01 am
Perhaps not that sweary but you have a wonderful way with words, a wonderful filthy way that is. Why I did blush on numerous occasions, page 49 saw the beginning of a succession off tut’s, I haven’t heard such tone lowers since my mother insisted the little mofo stop using swear words, he obliged by refraining from the more traditional obscenities and calling her vagina face instead. It was a great read though. Well done.
I’m off Happy Monday to one and all!
February 25th, 2008 @ 4:25 pm
Twenty – coincidentally i have just finished a book too !!!!
…………….. and I didn’t crayon over ANY of the lines either!!
Basil Brush 1974 ( since we are all citing our sources now )
Grimey
February 27th, 2008 @ 9:15 am
Got the book. Hughes & Hughes in Stephens Green. The bloody cover make it like camouflage in the shop. Now all I need to do is to find the time to read it !
Dermot