Procrastinate Or Be Damned

Academia. The inert musings of the privileged young - and not so young - minds of society. A veritable fairground of intellectuals engaged in research that they alone, and sometimes not even they, can make sense of. Ah it's good to be back.

Despite repeated attempts at fucking about, I managed to get my teeth into my first chapter today, which deals with the foundation of the Irish Catholic Social Welfare Bureau in 1942, a Bureau brought into being to deal with the plight of emigration. The results varied but the religious egomania never swayed. While it is easy - oh so easy - to be critical of the stilted morality and plain simplemindedness of some of those involved - certain members of the clergy, when pressed on solving the issue, call to mind the episode of Father Ted where Dougal is stuck on the milkfloat and one of the crack team of priesteens trying to help suggests, as a practical means of avoiding disaster the saying of another mass! - it remains a simple, unstated fact that the men in dog-collars were the only ones trying to help emigrants as they went off on their not so merry way, and the outrageous abrogation of responsibility on the part of the state may, to some extent inform the crisis of 1951, where the Church simply blocked the Mother-and-Child Scheme.

Fascinating stuff.

Anyways, one of my favourite ways of avoiding study is top tens. Today's top ten is a very obvious one, albums(Have been listening quite a bit to Dave Fanning of late.)
Here's mine, and I'd love to have all of yours. No Greatest Hits albums please!

1. Planxty - After the Break
2. Kila - Tóg é go Bog É
3. The Pogues - Rum Sodomy and the Lash
4. The Stunning - Paradise in the Picturehouse
5. The Velvet Underground - Nico
6. The Pixies - Doolittle
7. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
8. Led Zeppelin III
9. St Germain - Tourist
10.Blur - Parklife