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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Kermode is the shats. Meaning good.