About Basil

Basil Exposition began on April Fool’s Day of 2008.  I can’t recall whether this was intentional.

My name is Fionnuala.  For the benefit of foreign readers, this is pronounced something like fin-OO-lah.  I am from Dublin and recently completed my BA in English literature at Trinity College, Dublin.  I am currently studying for a master’s at Oxford.

In this blog I cover what interests me, be it music, books, film, craft or things I’ve spotted elsewhere online.  I also continually try to cover events that are happening where I am, in Dublin or London (or elsewhere, though that’s rare).

“The BF” in this blog stands for “the boyfriend”.  I dislike this terminology but he would have a canary if I were to use his name online, so there you go.

You can contact me at fionnuala dot barrett at gmail dot com, or leave a comment on the blog.

I was dismayed to learn from a reliable source only the day after my first post the truth behind my blog’s name.  I chose this name as a result of what I believed was a long-standing joke of film critic Mark Kermode.  This name, Basil Exposition, is for the character in a film who has to substantially explain the plot in an unrealistic way to further the action.  This is the first phrase that popped into my head when WordPress was demanding a title.  I am not, as you can tell, very good at names.  The reliable source informed that this was not a Kermodean joke but an actual character from the Austin Powers films; Kermode had simply re-appropriated the joke.  You live and learn.

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