KamaItachi

For a while it seemed like my home would never really be mentioned much aside from occasional oblique references to 'the troubles' or certain doe eyed IRA killers but recently I've noticed two references to Northern Ireland in popular media.

The first being an out of the blue finale in Hellboy 2, which caused me all sorts of giggles "We have to get to County Antrim!' has a ring to it, that I guess "The fate of the world lies in the balance, to WINNIPEG" might sound...

A lot of our fears and aversions can be traced back to a certain point or event in our lives.

I can pretty much pinpoint exactly where my fear of spiders came from. When I was 4 and first becoming a lot more aware of Christmas, my mum told me that in the cupboard in the stairs, where they hid all of our presents, was a giant spider that would gobble me up if I went in there.

My aversion to walking barefoot from about the same time when I got a huge (to me) splinter...

SCENE 3 JERUSALEM EXT DAY

WE FOLLOW CLOSELY BEHIND A STREET WALKER AS SHE STRUTS THROUGH THE DUSTY STREETS, TRINKETS AND RELIGIOUS PARAPHENELIA DANGLING FROM HER ARMS. SHE APPROACHES TWO ROMAN SOLDIERS AS THEY LAZE OUTSIDE FIG VENDOURS

STREETWALKER: Hey baby, you got a saviour in jerusalem?

SOLDIER 1: Not right this minute!

STREETWALKER: Well baby, me so holy! Me so Holy Me save you long time!

SHE MAKES VARIOUS RELIGIOUS...

SCENE 47 INT: DAY, PIlATE'S PALACE

Pilate approaches mary Magdalene with menace. He dips his hands in a washbowl and flings the liquid at her face. Mary ducks and the liquid, highly corrosive acid, burns its way into a nearby statue.

Suddenly the glass ceiling above them shatters, Jesus swoops down into the room, robe billowing. Mary throws herself at him for safety. Jesus brings up a cricifix and points it directly at pilate's head, who ducks. Suddenly the sides of...