Spiderman 3: An Irish Conversation
So I walk into an Irish pub, an authentic Irish pub no less.
The pub is located in the prime shopping district of a foreign land.
It is 7pm and the sun is far from going down. The Irish entertainer is setting up for the night’s performance. He is surprised to see me.
-What are you doing here at this hour?
-I was next door. It’s a holiday weekend. I went to a fillum.
-Shrek?
-Spiderman 3
-Did Máirtín de Cógáin sing Óró sé do bheatha ‘bhaile in that?
-No. Snow Patrol did.
-Really?
-Yes. But they never cried.
-Did you?
-I did when I saw them make the tea.
-Why?
-When Peter Uilleann Piper’s aunt pours out the most watery looking stuff from the pot.
-Iced tea?
-He wasn’t in it
-Green tea?
-No thanks, I have to catch the bus. Have you noticed they’re always early?
More Irish Conversations in the Midwest of the Mind:
• When Are You Irish?
• Irish Prison Interview with Philo
• A Chat With The Plain People Of The Midwest
• The Driving Range
Eolaí gan Fhéile:
Yes! the tea! I’d forgotten that, though I gestiiculated wildly at the time - i must ask Em does she remember. It was just water, wasn’t it? It hadn’t even seen the merest fragment of leaf!
Iced Tea/ Ice T. Funny. Hard to believe he’s been acting for so long.
That movie looks painfully bad. You couldn’t pay me to see it.
Gragoir, I even watched all the credits - and not because of Snow Patrol - but I didn’t see the position of “Tea Consultant” or even “Tea Maker” listed.
How many millions of dollars - and they couldn’t make a decent pot of tea?
Medbh, it’s very long, because it’s really four films in one, and I caught my head falling as sleep assaulted me during two of the whizz bang flying ouch fight scenes.