Category archives: Limerick
Naughty Boys, Lucky Bags, and Karl’s Lovely Wig
And so the brother (he who used to love jam sandwiches more than life itself) is married. Saturday’s celebratory fancy dress part-tay was a raucous, riotous and rewarding affair. Particularly for me, as I scored a magnificent triumph in the… continue reading »
The Brutal Sound of Two Euro Horror
This Halloween sees me (somewhat reluctantly) abandoning my usual routine. There’ll be no carving of turnips,1 no careful choosing of monster movies, and no poisoning of local children with cheap & nasty sweeties. Instead, I’ll be performing best-man duties (and… continue reading »
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club: What Was It?
1) “What Was it?” (pdf) (html) (Google Books) Despite being described variously as “a lion of literary New York”, “a Poe in the minor mode”, and “the writer who to the weird and supernatural gave a setting definitely localized in… continue reading »
The Museum of Cultural Waste: Kid Kore “Apache”
If there’s one lesson I’ve learned from my numerous trips to charity shops (on both sides of the Irish sea) it is (alas) to expect the expected. For while such places hold out the slight promise of rare oddities and… continue reading »
Every Little (or Lot) Helps
An alarming headline from today’s Limerick Post. While I know that Tesco have (over the last number of years) been aggressively seeking to increase their presence in the Irish supermarket landscape, I hadn’t realised quite how far their plans for… continue reading »
The Mystery of the Warrior’s Knob
After a very pleasant 10 days spent holidaying in beautiful Kerry, I’ve passed the last 72 hours (and counting) laid up in bed with an extremely nasty flu (complete with mild bouts of delirium). On one of my very rare… continue reading »
Limerick Graffiti Archive: Vaginas
Apologies if you’ve just spurted your precious morning coffee all over your keyboard, but the above graffito does indeed say what you think it says. Take another look. Yup, it’s still there. To add an extra layer of intrigue (or,… continue reading »
Limerick Graffiti Archive: Brendan Loves You
I’m not sure to what extent “Grafitti Studies” has (as a discipline) permeated academic institutions, but I’d be surprised if the below offshoot of the artform has recieved much scholarly attention. The circumstances in which such graffiti is created are… continue reading »
