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Eugene Lambert

Very sad to hear about the passing of the mighty Eugene Lambert. Way back when this blog was a bumbling, stumbling and mewling babe,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Dreadful Thoughts: The Abysmally Unexpected & Grotesquely Unbelievable

January – as the fella said – is a gelid month. A hiemal, brumal, dismal and tenebrous month. A month when the dankest...

The Clanging Gongs of Doom 2009 (An Evolving Post)

Virtual awards time! The inaugural Clanging Gongs of Doom show starts here and starts now. Or, actually, in a little while. Have to...

Upon Death’s Purple Altar: The 2009 Manky Toy Show – Live!

(Curtain draws back to reveal…not a stage, but bare concrete walls atop a bare concrete floor. On this floor are two bins. In...

‘Tis the Season to be Manky

Christmas is coming! It cannot be stopped! It will kill us all! Aaaaaarrrgggh!!! It's been one of those years. Economy? Dead. Hope?...

Images that Make Me Want to Cry: 4 – These are my Bitches

Men. They're gas! Charming rogues one and all. They love WKD ads and Gladiator. Beer and war. Top Gear and Nuts (and hot lesbian twins)....

Big Ed Loves Mona (or “The Adventures of Balloon Boy”)

Today (or yesterday), somewhere in America (I can't be bothered to check the details) a saucer-shaped balloon flew through the sky...

The Campaign Poster Debaffler: 5 – Think of the Children!

While the weary lamp-posts of the country already heave 'neath the strain of alarmist, reductive, populist, faux-chummy, batshit and...

Images that Make Me Want to Cry: 3 – Great Coffee, Great Friends

Look, we all hate ourselves. You. Me. The postman. The elderly woman you sat beside on the bus this morning. We all sob ourselves to...

Images that Make Me Want to Cry: 2 – The Confused Clipart Stickman

A curious feature of ubiquitous images is this – as soon as you notice the ubiquity, concrete examples become hard to find. One...

Images that Make Me Want to Cry: 1 – The Corporate Handshake

Once, in a former life, I taught "Business English". Really. I taught students proper forms of address. I taught them formalised small...

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