Archives for March 2009
The Great Picturegate Postcard Exhibition
The response, thus far, to my request for nudey postcards of An Taoiseach has been splendid & encouraging. Allan, in particular, has been evangelical in his promotional zeal. Allow me to clarify, again, exactly what’s “planned”. 1) We want you… continue reading »
Filthy Durty Postcards: Badgers, Blu-Tack & Picturegating
This lunchtime, while the rest of you stuffed your faces with fancy sangwiches, I went on a not-very-dangerous, undercover, guerilla art mission. First port of call was the National Portrait Collection of Ireland, Bourn Vincent Gallery (UL). On its stark… continue reading »
Filthy Durty Postcards: 2 – Spineless RTE Bastards
5 minutes after reading Suzy’s post on nekkid Brian Cowen “picturegate” (and RTÉ’s craven and vomit-inducing climb down) I distilled my rage and fury into the below. It took me about 126 seconds but I feel much the better for… continue reading »
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club 10: The Inmost Light
Welsh Anglo-Catholic occultist. Member (briefly) of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Avowed anti-materialist. Inspirer of everyone’s favourite pathologically racist horror grandmaster: H.P. Lovecraft. Sometime scandaliser of (an easily scandalised) Victorian society. Fearer/Lover of fauns who gambolled oftentimes in… continue reading »
The Return of the Son of the Dog of Dreadful Thoughts
Penury? Ruin? Weeping and gnashing of rotten teeth? Corpses putrefying in the streets – their strewn entrails being slurped up like spaghetti by ravenous curs? Demented pedestrians cracking open each other’s heads to feast on the goo inside? All now… continue reading »
Filthy Durty Postcards: 1 – The Pissening
All this talk of obscenity, horses, Tennessee Williams, pee, transgression, distended goat anuses, and members of the clergy has awoken an artistic beast in me. Said beast dug the pens and colouring pencils out of the desk drawer and (after… continue reading »
Pissing on Bishops: 21st Century Obscenity & the State of the Nation
Obscenity. Profanity. Transgression. All these lovely things have been much on my mind of late. Not entirely sure why. It may have something to do with a new blogging project that has “cunts” (phnarr) in the title. It may, instead,… continue reading »
