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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...

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...

‘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?...

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,...

A Lovely Lick of Paint for Spring

The last time Jess (my in-house designer, baby co-producer, loving wife etc) gave this here blog a makeover was way back in January...

The Return of the Son of the Dog of Dreadful Thoughts

Penury? Ruin? Weeping and gnashing of rotten teeth? Corpses putrefying in the streets – their strewn entrails being slurped...

Bits/Bobs/Odds/Ends/Awards (and Boggly eyes)

I After culls and purges vicious enough to shame Uncle Joe Stalin, 5 battered & wobbly survivors are left (just about) standing...

About Time

All's been quiet (and windswept and desolate) on the bloggy front of late as I've had neither the time nor the inclination to say...

It’s the Most Bloggiest Time of the Year (Ordinarily)

This year (for the first time since the event's inception) I've decided not to attend the Irish Blog Awards. The reasons for my non-attendance...

None for Anyone in the Audience: The 2008 Manky Toy Show – Live!

9.00 – A pair of cheap, stained curtains open. A thin figure bounds jovially through them and onto the stage. A glamorous, heavily...

Manky Toy Show is Go!

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...

The Manky Toy Show 2008: The Countdown Begins…

Ask square and un-hip members of society what the highlight of their 2007 Christmas season was and they'll most likely answer: the...

The Salty Taste of Irish Horror – Live!

I Though this thing we call the internet generally caters effectively to the colourful needs of the planet's fetishists, paranoids,...

Back on the Good Ship “Dreadful Thoughts”

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...

Tanks a Million

After almost a full month away from the keyboard (a month partially spent hunting lake monsters, and getting very wet, in Connemara),...

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