Posts from January, 2007

Unfringed

Just a quick note to remind my fellow Limerickians that the 10th annual Unfringed festival will run (in various places/spaces around...

Manky Toy Monday: Imaginary Racers & Dudes full of Love

Today's entry in the toy-making hall of shame was, like last week's example, purchased in the marvellous crap toy repository that is...

Closing Time

Just a reminder that nominations for the Irish Blog Awards "long list" are only being accepted till 11.59 p.m. tonight. If you haven't...

Manky Toy Monday: League of the Transformable

Following the pioneering leads of other bloggers who have themed certain days of the week (in a quest, presumably, to add some shape...

Joystick Waggling and Button Bashing: Memoirs, Pt. 2

Due to popular demand (or at least the absence of popular opposition) I’m dipping into my Letts Boy's Diary 1986 once more to pull...

When that Faded Paint was Blue

Didn't Marcel Proust once suggest that "nostalgia" was: …like an old dog chewing carpet slippers in a frenzy of self-loathing. Well…actually,...

Nominate or be Damned

Damien Mulley – more power to him – has succeeded in getting the 2nd annual Irish Blog Awards off the ground and nominations...

Fústar – Mark 2.0

Back in November – when I’d returned from a long, enforced hiatus – I mentioned that: Fustar.org is about to have the moss brushed...

Hail, Hail Cydonia!

Given my brief (admittedly lacklustre) childhood flirtation with astronomy – and my ongoing chuminess with the worlds of Sci-Fi,...

Read and be Merry

Following the lead of Copernicus and others who’ve posted itemised accounts of their Christmas booty haul, I thought I’d make...

Brian is addicted to jam sandwiches: Memoirs, Pt. 1

The other morning – shortly after returning from our Christmas break in Bristol – I trudged downstairs to find my wife...