Every Day is a Gif(t): Mr. Kipling’s Orgy of Cake
A companion piece to my Werther's reimagining.
This is why ad agencies should be paying me the big massive bucks. But they're afraid....
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Upside-Down and Downside-Up, Mirror Magic Means Much Mixing
While Gregory Gráinneog and his wretched companions eke out a miserable existence above ground (on a scorched and ruined earth), below...
The Campaign Poster Debaffler: 4 РThe Watery Adventures of Toir̩asa Ferris (Sinn F̩in)
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....
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)...
