2009 May - Fustar – Recycling Cultural Waste Since 2005

Posts from May, 2009

The Campaign Poster Debaffler: 4 – The Watery Adventures of Toiréasa Ferris (Sinn Féin)

Early yesterday morning – as the wife the daughter, and the husband/father (i.e. myself) strode (and rolled) towards the Milk...

I Love Coffee, and I Now Have the T-Shirt to Prove it

Back in 1983, while in Mrs. Clifford's third class, I won a copy of The Citadel of Chaos for drawing a picture of an elephant. Then,...

The Campaign Poster Debaffler: 3 – Caroline Simons (Libertas)

Our third slice of “Debafflement� sees the series move from local level to European, and from Shannonside to the banks of the Liffey....

God is nothing but a big stupid over-sensitive man with a beard that lives on a cloud

Of all the many wild 'n' wacky notions entertained and promoted by orgainsed religions, few can be as amusingly bonkos as the idea...

The Microfilm Miscellany: I Was born in Limerick

The “recession chic� juggernaut of journalistic puke has no doubt inspired hacks to spew forth acres of “content� detailing...

The Campaign Poster Debaffler: 2 – John Cronin

The "Campaign Poster Debaffler" next focuses its critical gaze on the kindly physog of Cllr. John Cronin. Here he be: First impressions...

The Campaign Poster Debaffler: 1 – Fine Gael’s Cormac Hurley

As local/European elections loom into view (and candidates hock their wares & crush their policies into tasty sound bite form)...

Pissing (once more) on Bishops: Blasphemers Beware!

So it's another of those boring old Wednesdays. You yawn your way apathetically through the morning. 11 o'clock arrives on time –...