Posts from February, 2006

Dude, Where’s the Program?

Despite the fact that I'm well into my third year of abstention from television-watching, I freely admit that a morbid fascination...

Brissle Bound

We're off across the Irish Sea on a gurt plane to Brissle to see the 'in-laws' today. Back on Sunday evening. Stay out of trouble...

From Fairies to Freemasons Pt. 2

'Guest Post' by Copernicus Who's that poking their heads over the half door and the twilight as purple in the western sky as the heather...

The Great Melchester Massacre

Most of us can recall (vividly) key childhood traumas that marked us, shaped us, and that (occasionally) return in the deep dark of...

Irish Blog Awards Shortlist

The shortlists for the Irish Blog Awards have been announced, and though there were a number of surprising omissions (including a few...

From Fairies to Freemasons Pt. 1

'Guest Post' by Copernicus Before I go to bed at night, having replenished the horn of nerdom with a couple of Star Trek episodes,...

Every Now and Then I Wake Up Screaming

The lads and lassie of The Brad Pitt Light Orchestra return, tomorrow night, to the intimate surrounds of Limerick Boat Club (where...

The ‘Aberrant stammerings’ of Art Brut

Am currently reading the Raw Vision Outsider Art Sourcebook, a fascinating volume detailing some of the most notable examples of 'Outsider...

The Touch of the Shadow…

As Atlantic rowers Paul Gleeson and Tori Holmes enter what they hope will be their final week on the high seas, the 'entity' that follows/haunts/accompanies...

Eugene Lambert Interview Pt. 3 – A Most Unusual Wagon…

The Story Concludes… After Part Two's tales of horse colic, Neil Jordan, Flann O'Brien, Fortycoats, and 'Ould Mr. Brennan'…our...

Eugene Lambert Interview Pt. 2 – A Wanderly Beginning

The Story so far… With Part 1 (and Eugene’s early days) behind us, our tale now winds its way toward the promised land of Part...

Eugene Lambert Interview Pt. 1 – The Wagon Approaches…

Though I'm not someone who has much time for the kind of indiscriminate nostalgia expressed in the likes of I Love Nineteen-Eighty-Whatever...

There’s Something in the Attic…

Thoroughly intriguing story in yesterday's Guardian about a Mr. Barney Broom (of Gunthorpe, north Norfolk) discovering…well…what...

King of the Impossible

Took advantage of the old HMV "3 DVDs for 30 Euro" offer on Saturday to pick up a few choice items that had been missing from my collection...

Rock the Vote

News reaches us that fustar.info has been 'long listed' in 2 categories for the upcoming

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