Friday, 5th December, 2008 @ 9.00 p.m.

Pencil that date and that time into your diaries. If you don't have a diary then sprint madly out the door this instant and buy one. If you don't …

Ask square and un-hip members of society what the highlight of their 2007 Christmas season was and they'll most likely answer: the dinner; time spent with loved ones; browsing through the bumper issue of the …

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Though this thing we call the internet generally caters effectively to the colourful needs of the planet's fetishists, paranoids, perverts and obsessives, there are areas of enthusiasm that remain curiously (and sadly) neglected. Take …

This just in. Thanks to one of the many trans-dimensional portals opened by the CERN experiment I've managed to lock my homemade tractor beam onto something previously thought lost and irretrievably wrecked - the USS Dreadful Thoughts. Since it's …

After almost a full month away from the keyboard (a month partially spent hunting lake monsters, and getting very wet, in Connemara), I return to bloggerly duties clutching a Waterford Crystal-esque award to my bosom.

Many thanks to …

Tomorrow (for those of you not paying attention…tsk) sees the start of Euro 2008. What this means in blogging terms is that fustar.info's central hub (the thing you're currently staring at) will probably suffer a period of relative …

One of the most enjoyable (if exhausting) blogging side projects I've taken on since this site's inception was the alliterative World of World Cup Wonders - a solid month of daily thoughts and reflections on …

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As the "Dreadful Thoughts" club badges begin to wing their way around this wide world (i.e. Ireland) my thoughts have turned from the sunlit plains of munificence to the shadowy valleys of …

Hewn from the molten plasticks of hell flame it has come. The dread mark that speaks of pain, of pestilence and of putridity. Long hath man (and woman) sought the avoidance of its vile company…its …

Evenin' all.

Given that one of very short stories up for discussion tonight ("Sredni Vashtar") concerns …

Well, I hope you're all suitably recovered from the frights, delights and alcohol (or caffeine) poisoning of Monday evening. The pace was fast and furious - the vibe (I thought) fun and friendly. In …

I say:

Come, dear friends. Come and pull …

The Dreadful Thoughts project begins (like a cauldron of hot blood) to bubble and fizz most satisfactorily - with my comrade Sinéad rallying the troops over at The Sigla Blog.

For the first of …

Right. Time to spit on the hands (my own and those of others), roll up the sleeves and slap the dozy Dreadful Thoughts project back into something approaching life. Necromancy, Ho!

After speaking to (hat-trick …

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Another year, another head-butt in the nuts. This blog's sixth and seventh Irish Blog Awards nominations went the same sorry way of the previous five. End result - diddly squat. I think …