Declan Cashin
Writing: the art of applying the ass to the seat

Archive for June, 2009

Dec-tacular

Monday, June 22nd, 2009




Some recent stuff of mine

Living on a tenner for week

Britney comes to Dublin but does anyone care?

Nightwatch column in Day and Night

Katyn review

Red Cliff review

Interview with new roomies Brian Kennedy and Katherine Lynch

30 Rock is full of Muppets

Thursday, June 11th, 2009


Possibly the best blog post I’ve ever read. Note: must be a 30 Rock fan to fully enjoy. Note 2: If you’re not a 30 Rock fan, get out of my sight. I don’t want to look at you. Click here.

Walk like a gay

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

I am so there. Part of this year’s Pride line-up

The Bizness

Monday, June 8th, 2009


Think Tank this Friday at 8pm. Do it. Don’t make me come over there
http://www.myspace.com/vonbizmark

Picture of the day

Sunday, June 7th, 2009


Michelle Obama has daggers for Carla Bruni-Sarkozy at the D-Day commemorations on Saturday.

Born Again Christian

Friday, June 5th, 2009


My interview with Christian Bale in Day and Night in today’s Irish Independent

Four minutes: it’s not just the deadline by which Madonna and Justin Timberlake had to save the world; it’s also the time it took for Christian Bale, Hollywood‘s most in-demand actor, to deliver what has become arguably his defining perfor-mance to date.

In February, an audio file was leaked on to the web in which the 35-year-old Welshman is heard hurling a tirade of ‘f’-word-laden abuse at cinematographer Shane Hurlbut, who had unwisely wandered into Bale’s eyeline during the filming of a particularly intense scene with co-star Bryce Dallas Howard on the set of Terminator Salvation.

Continue here

Some queer’s notions

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Haven’t linked this on my blog yet – I feature in a series of promo videos for the Queer Notions festival this month.

Click here to watch.

Tiananmen +20

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009


Few images have defined an entire ideology – not to mention an entire century – as this stirring image from the Tiananmen Square massacre on June 5, 1989. Predictably, China’s vile regime is implementing an information blackout during the 20th anniversary commemorations.