We're Moving...

So here it is *sniff*

After over 1300 posts and much cadgoling my my more web savvy blogging friends the time has come to move on.

To be honest the biggest reason to move over to Wordpress is the really great range of styles and templates and the better stuff to fiddle around with.

So, from today, the blog will have a new home at:

http://rickoshea.wordpress.com/

Changing your blogroll to point to this would be very much appreciated :-)

Good night and good luck...

Spike!

Yup, she's real... Ann Cohen from Newcastle who I just spoke to on the show and has spiked all her junk mail on a giant one in her front garden since January....

She has 5ft of it already....

Are We There Yet?

It's going to be quiet here over the next few days as the blog is moving house finally...!

More here when I have it...

Hi, My Name Is Rick And I'm A Spammer...

True story.

Over time I've recieved spam alleging to be from Maureen Haughey, Charles Taylor and almost every other African dictator of note.

Today I was spammed by....

Me.

I got a mail from rick@2fm.ie hawking this:

Appropriate I suppose :-)

Textsecrets v2.0 Post 18...

It's up and running at its new home and now Textsecrets v2.0 has a new post.

Post 18 is HERE

Almost There....

Did it. Finally.

Am in the last stages of migrating this blog to Wordpress (thanks to Damien for all his advice!) and, as an experiment to see how the process works, did it with Textsecrets. All went well.

Have a look here:

Textsecrets v 2.0

The New Kylie Video...

The new Kylie video is out there on d'interweb....

http://del.interoute.com/?id=b7842ad0-fe34-43f0-8fea-53d738c4b22c&delivery=stream

Will give it a spin later on in the show...

Ashley's Football Jerseys From Countries That Don't Exist Anymore...

I love the Franks.

I've said it beforre and I'll say it many times more.

Got sent this by them yesterday to promote the new single and can you imagine how much more effective it was than a crappy press release?




I was going to play the single anyway..... :-)

Go on, buy it. He's gagging for the 1978 Czechoslovakia one...

Bebo Feck Off...

Sure what more reason could you want to give up social networking for the week? :-)

This is part 3 in the grand pop culture social deprivation series - Bebo Feck Off! And Myspace. And Facebook (even though I'm enjoying it SO much at the moment).

After the weeks of torture that were give up TV and give up text messages next week on the show we invite you to break social networking's evil hold on you by giving it up in all of its shapes and forms from when you wake up on Monday til 5pm on Friday.

Same as before; you can either just play along and let us know during the week how you're getting on or you can volunteer to be part of our test group and come on air from Monday to Friday next week and let us know how you're doing. Yes, I'll be taking part too, of course (still not sure if I can rope in Amanda and David but we'll see!)

Interested? Mail me HERE, let me know just how bad you addiction is and the fun starts from Monday

Biffo In Brazil...

Am I way, way too late on this one?

Tom, who works on the show, said he and a bunch of mates saw this on TV over the weekend and then obsessed as to whether there's a guy in an Offaly GAA jersey in a crowd in Brazil near the end...

Have a look 4.34 in:

Or for the broadband deficient:

Whaddya think?

This Week's Chosen One....

It's Newton Faulkner...

Vomit Inspiration...

To inspire you with your vomit stories this afternoon :-)

But Is It Art.....?

LOVE Justin Gignac.

He came into us after St Patrick's Day when he'd been collecting garbage in Dublin to cube and sell and even sent me one of the NYC ones for myself!

Now he has a new idea.... See these?

You buy one of these paintings and they buy what's pictured with the proceeds. Simple. The abs are a month's gym membership, The stack of money is called "financial security" and is going for $1,000,000...

:-)

Have a look HERE and have a listen to him talk about it on the show after 3...

The New Sony Bravia TV Ad...

They used 2 and a half tons of play-doh in this.... Just like the last one it's very, very pretty and a cut above the usual tv ad...








Swines for making me want one when I can't have one!!!! :-(

May as well include the brilliant paint one while I'm at it...




Jesus H. Christ! It was real! Had always presumed it was mostly CGI...





EDIT - Pedro did pretty much the same post the day before. Swear I wasn't ripping off! Great minds grumble grumble...

Tayto - Video 1....

This is the first entry in our grand "Win A Year's Supply Of Tayto" competition!





Funny, costumes (well, the crap wig) and wonky camerawork to boot.

Get cracking with yours, you have til midnight this Sunday... All the rules are HERE

Channel R - That Mitchell & Webb Look...

They're the lads from Peep Show (which I, disgracefully, came to late but thought was very funny). This is the sketch show they did for BBC2 that finished repeating on Thursday night...










This last clip is sheer brilliance. It comes at the end of a series of sketches where the snooker commentators commentate on the varying suicide attempts of one of the more miserable players and how there are alternative "snooker" lyrics to Lady In Red that only people in the snooker community know...

Textsecrets - Post 17...

Textsecrets Post 17 is up at this late hour...

HERE

日本語でなんと言いますか

Next week we have a very cute prize for ya with Lucozade Alert...

Our winner each day wins a Nintendo DS Lite and a copy of More Brain Training.

Daily winners will be entered into a draw to win an amazing 5 day trip for two to Tokyo in Japan with city centre hotel accommodation, flights and transfers all included.

Monday from 2.

Live Duke Special....

He was brill - 2 live acoustic tracks where he makes the studio shake and cry and a chat HERE

In The Canteen...

Seriously.

More surreal by the day.

He was lovely.

Yes, It Is A Year's Supply Of Tayto...

Right. Sorted.

The prize for our "How To Make A Tayto Sandwich Instructional Video" competition (we're looking for a snappier title) shall be this. Currently sitting in the bosses office, a year's supply of Tayto (just shy of 1200 bags in total!!!)

Whomsoever sends us the video we deem best gets the lot.

The instructions are HERE, the deadline for reciept of your Youtube url by e-mail is midnight on Sunday the 14th of October.

Get cracking.