Category archives: Blogging
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 up like spaghetti by ravenous curs? Demented pedestrians cracking open each other’s heads to feast on the goo inside? All now… continue reading »
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 in the “Best Popculture Blog” corner of d’Irish Blog Awards. Happily, mine is one of them. Two black… continue reading »
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 much worth saying. Even if said time (and said inclination) had been available to me then… continue reading »
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 are as follows. 1) I’m having a baby (or, more accurately, I’m watching Jess have a… continue reading »
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 pregnant, assistant follows (her movements cautious & wary). The scene reeks of tawdry & thrown-together charm –… continue reading »
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 out the door this instant and buy one. If you don’t have a pencil…then, God… continue reading »
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 dinner; time spent with loved ones; browsing through the bumper issue of the RTÉ Guide etc. Cool cats,… continue reading »
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, perverts and obsessives, there are areas of enthusiasm that remain curiously (and sadly) neglected. Take fans of live blogging, horror,… continue reading »
