Archives for January 2010
Every Day is a Gif(t): Creamy Werther’s Goodness in a Universe that Doesn’t Care
The universe may be little more than a chaotic and unfeeling soup of neutrinos, quarks, gluons and dark matter that’s barely (if at all) aware of our fleeting existences, but (even in this flux & emptiness & horror) there are… continue reading »
Every Day is a Gif(t): Shitty Cloud Munch
Clouds – though occasionally cute, fluffy and given to floating on high o’er vales and hills – are, generally, a bit of a nuisance. They enshroud the earth in suffocating blankets of grey. They empty their contents onto miserable wage-slaves… continue reading »
Every Day is a Gif(t): Tumbley Hole Man
Formative experience recollection time. It’s a summer evening in, oh, 1979 (or thenabouts), and I’m standing – gob-smacked and wonder-filled – in the lobby of the (no-longer-existent) prom-side cinema in Lahinch, Co. Clare. I’ve just seen Disney’s Snow White &… continue reading »
Hot Doggerel: An Address to Shakespeare
[Today's unlovely slice of hot doggerel is served up (stinking & steaming) by guest-poster, Tuppenceworth stalwart, and occasional fustar.info football correspondent - Fergal Crehan. Take 'er away, FC.] It is generally the case in writing that if you don’t attempt… continue reading »
Weird Cheese Eye Things & Christian Allegory
Christian iconography. Chuckle! It’s as mad as a bag of transubstantiated communion wafers. Take Jan Provoost’s Christian Allegory (1510-15) for instance. Brimming with the thrown-together, jumble-of-images, pseudo-meaningful charm of a C-grade Leaving Cert “imaginative composition”. All the usual suspects are… continue reading »
Hot Doggerel: Ode on the Mammoth Cheese Weighing over 7,000 Pounds
The interweb may often be an ugly, querulous and hate-filled place, but one of its undeniable beauties is this. No matter how outré or perverse your particular enthusiasms are, you’re always only a click or two away from (virtually) rubbing… continue reading »
Night of the Non-Living Un-Dead Blog Awards
Blogging is, as we all know, dead. Deeeaaaddddddd! Face-down dead in a pool of digital sick. Chunks of spewed code coating the virtual bathroom floor. A trail of “1s” and “0s” dribbling out its nose. Yuck. Shocked & surprised? I… continue reading »
