Category archives: Guest Posts
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 fustar.info football correspondent - Fergal Crehan. Take 'er away, FC.] It is generally the case in writing that if you don’t attempt… continue reading »
From Fairies to Freemasons Pt. 2
‘Guest Post’ by Copernicus Who’s that poking their heads over the half door and the twilight as purple in the western sky as the heather on the bog? Come in, come in, musha, and settle ye about the hearth. Where… continue reading »
From Fairies to Freemasons Pt. 1
‘Guest Post’ by Copernicus Before I go to bed at night, having replenished the horn of nerdom with a couple of Star Trek episodes, I pause before the bookshelves in the hall, pluck from them a random volume and, standing… continue reading »
We Know When We’ve Been Tango’d
‘Guest Post’ by Copernicus Fústar.org was lately memed by freestater who closed his eyes as tight as tight could be, clicked the heels of his dainty red slippers and wished with all his might for a post on why the… continue reading »
It’s life, Jim…
‘Guest Post’ by Copernicus I enjoy taking a certain immoderately smug view of myself predicated on a few pleasing cultural tropes. I have browsed intelligently among the moderns and the postmoderns, committed to memory verses both metered and free. I… continue reading »
The Theatre of the Scaffold
‘Guest Post’ by Copernicus Like the French placard which, Roger Chartier has observed, has been ‘long neglected by a history interested only in more noble objects’, the broadside is the Cinderella publication of early modern Ireland.1 Broadside, n, a sheet… continue reading »
Caught in the Furze
‘Guest Post’ by Copernicus It’s the most wonderful time of the year…for some. While Stephen’s Day is now upon us, it is still not too late to impart to fústarers something of the sinister side of the holidays. Depending on… continue reading »
Shade and Darkness…
‘Guest Post’ by Copernicus (follow up to 17th December entry) Revealing article on the wonderful world of the art heist in the Guardian arts pages yesterday detailing the tale of intrigue behind the Tate’s recovery of two paintings by Turner:… continue reading »
