Girls who are boys who like boys to be girls…

Iiiiiiiiiiiit’s SHAG week! aka Sexual Health Awareness & Guidance Week. Ooh I say! Well that explains the nasty looking picture above, doesn’t it!
SHAG Week is usually held in semester two in DCU but this year they decided to mix it up a little. It’s also a hell of a lot more organised than last year’s. And the posters are wittier e.g Why did the pubic lice cross the road? _____________________ (there’s nothing funny about an STI)
GENIUS! Oh how I laughed.
Tonight is the not-so-annual Drag Ball which will see DCU students dressing like the opposite sex and finding it next to impossible to score.
ANOTHER thing happening tonight is the Tayto and Dutch Gold reception being held for Ross O’Carroll-Kelly (Paul Howard) by DCU Book Soc. The members are getting skobified to the nines and plan on giving Mr Howard (who cancelled at the last minute on the society last year) a night he won’t forget in hurry.

Loopy Lindsay

Never one to miss a trend, actress Lindsay Lohan has bagged herself the latest celebrity accessory: a sober companion to help her stay on the straight and narrow. This so-called ‘buddy’ will accompany her to every party and premiere and ensure she doesn’t fall off the wagon. Again.

Lohan’s bank balance has also got tongues wagging. She’s back in Hollywood and filming Dare To Love Me in a bid to boost her poor finances.

The 21-year-old wildchild has found herself in a sticky financial situation after squandering €5m in the last year and a half on her hard-partying lifestyle. This massive figure includes €96,500 spent on rehab costs in an effort to kick her drug and alcohol problems and a further €246,000 on legal fees. The rest was spent on a cocktail of clothes, drugs, hotel bills and fancy cars that she occasionally treated like dodgems.

Lohan, who has just finished her third stint in rehab, can’t even afford a place to live. She is reportedly staying in the guesthouse of billionaire Tom Gores, executive producer of her most recent flop I Know Who Killed Me, after being forced to sell both her LA and New York apartments because she couldn’t afford to keep up with the mortgage repayments.

What is all the fuss about…?

 

“You’re a real smart guy. What the hell are you doing in prison?”
After avoiding it like the Plague for three seasons, I decided it was high time to see what all the fuss surrounding Prison Break was about. There had to be a good reason why a handful of my very good guy friends locked themselves away from the world for an hour each week. Considering I never got into LOST or 24 in quite the same way everyone else seemed to, I was sceptical from the start. But saying that, it’s not fair to form an opinion based on one episode of this hit prison drama.

So this Thursday night found me parked at home in front of the telly with a mug of tea instead of out in Doyles with a pint of Kopperberg. I was reliably informed by my younger brother that RTE2 show season three of Prison Break four days before Sky1. This little nugget wasn’t exactly enlightening seeing as how I had little knowledge of the show anyway. And imagine my utter confusion when I realised that that they were now inside a different prison. I thought they broke out?

Season Three of Prison Break follows on from where the second season left off. Most of the main characters are now in Panama. Michael Schofield, played by Wentworth Miller (who I recognised from some old Mariah Carey videos) is back in prison facing homicidal charges. As soon as the theme tune ended I was understandably lost. I didn’t know any of the characters, I hadn’t a clue what was going on and everyone was very sweaty. Thankfully, an hour later, I’d managed to roughly piece together what was going on, yet still understand none of it.
Michael has been put back in prison in order to break out again, freeing James Whistler in the process. One of his main obstacles is the prison’s kingpin Lichero (Robert Wisdom) who does as he pleases and is carrying out his incarceration in comfort with a widescreen TV. In Thursday’s episode, the prison lost electric power but a flashback revealed that Michael cut it on purpose. It’s all part of the plan but I never worked out why. While he’s doing Lichero a ‘favour’ by fixing it, he’s threatened at knifepoint by Alex, a crazy inmate who is hearing voices. In the meantime, James receives a note telling him that time is running out…
My first experience with Prison Break was not a particularly memorable one. I was more confused than hooked and I doubt I’ll be clearing my schedule to watch it in future. However, I can see why others would. Apart from the woeful Miller, the acting is good, the cast is hot and each episode ends on a cliff-hanger. And isn’t that all it really needs.

 

I refuse to Wax lyrical

“Sure we’ll give it a go!”

That was the immortal sentence I uttered on Wednesday, fully prepared for a night of drunken debauchery in a shiny new place. Wax on South William St is far from shiny and new but after two years of tales, it was time to check it out.

Decked out in sparkles and with a suitable amount of vodka in me, I headed in with a group of similar minded friends.

With a name like Chemistry Wednesdays, €5 in and €3 drinks you’d think you couldn’t go wrong.

You would think.

I didn’t like it. My gigantic handbag was searched on my way in (this was a given so I’m not complaining), the locks on the unisex toilets didn’t work, the barman did his best to ignore me and the atmosphere was just all wrong. I felt like I’d wandered into a random house-party, uninvited and knowing no one else there.

Maybe I’m just bitter… I left after an hour, annoyed that Wax hadn’t lived up to my expectations or the stories I’d heard. Three of my (more drunk) friends informed me that they ended up having a great night. Sometime in the very distant future I might be persuaded to give Wax another go. And who knows, I might even like it. But right now, I plan on staying far far away.