Triple Distilled Communications
A blog about whiskey and other matters of interest
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Week 29: I am driving. Not as I write this – I’m not quite at that level of proficiency just yet, where I can stare down at a glowing screen in my lap while careering across lanes at 105kph. In fact, I’m not even at the stage where I can confidently pick my nose when…
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Week 28 of the column. Being an atheist is a lonely old slog. Most people will cling to the belief that there is something out there watching over us, be it Jesus, Yaweh, Allah or whatever MechaGodzilla the Scientologists funnel their taxes towards. Few people will actually offer such a bleak world view as the…
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Week 27, bleak af. There is a man I see around town. He looks a bit like an absent minded professor, slightly dilapidated and a bit bewildered. He seems affable enough, with a sort of half smile on his face as he meanders around the supermarket, staring blankly at yogurts and cleaning products.…
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Week 26, six months of being an opinionista and nobody has threatened to kill me yet, WTF am I doing wrong? It seems odd that I grew up in the age of one TV channel. It doesn’t seem like a million years ago, but I can still remember the excitement when Network Two…
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Now facing the prospect of being stuck in Dublin for 24 hours and the name Ophelia sounds really terrible in their accent, please send help. — Bill Linnane (@Bill_Linnane) October 16, 2017 Week 25 of the column! Who woulda thunk it? Certainly not my guidance counsellor in school, who said I should be an engineer…
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Week 24 of the column and I finally get around to talking about my ass. Also, check out that layout up top: They used my name, like you would with other important thought leaders like David Quinn, John Waters, Ronan Mullen, or any of those other great guys who I am totally friends with on…
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Wrote this for the Indo: Miranda Kerr knows a thing or two about marriage. This is partly because the 34 year old model has been married twice, firstly to Orlando Bloom, and now to the world’s youngest billionaire, Evan Spiegel, head honcho of Snapchat, AKA the biggest threat to today’s youth since cooties. In…
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@Bill_Linnane I really enjoyed my visit to spike island… did you also complain when guiness store house won.. lol — The Grunts (@thegrunts) October 4, 2017 Wee 23 of the column, in which I drop a steaming deuce on all of Cork and all religions ever. Little Nellie Of God has worked another miracle.…
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Here's that hot take on culottes that absolutely nobody ordered. pic.twitter.com/HMnPbA725s — Bill Linnane (@Bill_Linnane) September 28, 2017 Week 22, how did we get here? How have I managed 22 weeks of writing for the biggest newspaper in the country? WTF is going on? In the ongoing nuclear soap opera that is the US…
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Week 21 of the column, in which I perform a remarkable about-face on my attitude to print media, now that I am making some money from it. Lol jk – journalism is actually important. Stories are great, but there has to be facts. When I left the newspaper industry three years ago, I thought…