Home
About
Archives
Links
Tags
Toys/Manky Toys Category
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...
Read More
Don’t Grimace, Be Happy Meal
Back in the early years of this decade, when fustar.info was but a faint twinkle in the deepest recesses of mine eye, I was a reasonably...
Read More
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...
Read More
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...
Read More
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...
Read More
Manky Toy Monday: Rapid, Fighter, Apex
I've mentioned (somewhere) before that I, like most children, was more than happy to mix, match and mash together toy worlds and universes...
Read More
Makes People Disappear
There's something vaguely touching and poignant about mysteries that have (due to the whims of fashion) passed out of mainstream popular...
Read More
Spit on me Scarlett
As stated in my last post, we recently returned from an extended-family holiday in Connemara where, for much of the time, the wind...
Read More
Manky Toy Monday: Action Dan the Fireman
Firemen are, as we all know, potent, smoke-stained icons of manliness. Anyone who's ever called them out to tackle a chip pan fire,...
Read More
Manky Toy Monday: Little Animal Telephone
Though this vale of tears we call the world is plentifully stocked with bleak places and spaces - Abu Ghraib, Chernobyl, Auschwitz-Birkenau...
Read More
The Award for Most Tentacles Goes to…
I Another year, another head-butt in the nuts. This blog's sixth and seventh Irish Blog Awards nominations went the same sorry way...
Read More
The Big Manky Blog Awarding Night Out
On February 27th (yes, this very day) last year I 'penned' a Manky Toy post about the delectable Maureen - a doll beautifully described...
Read More
Manky Toy Monday: Phantasms and Maniac Bellows
A Manky Toy double-bill for you on this glorious Monday (glorious because the sun has his/her hat on and I'm off work). Through no...
Read More
V: Friendship is Universal
When I was but a small, nervous, big-eyed child (in the late 70s/early 80s) two parental fears dominated all others. One concerned...
Read More
Manky Toy Monday: Composite Happy
Sings *Every day is like Monday, Every day's a manky fun day" Yes indeedy, Tuesday is the new Monday - or at least it is for the purposes...
Read More
« Previous Entries
Latest
Comments
Categories
Tags
Hard Boiled and Soft Core: Tastes of Ould Ireland
The Campaign Poster Debaffler: 4 - The Watery Adventures of Toiréasa Ferris (Sinn Féin)
I Love Coffee, and I Now Have the T-Shirt to Prove it
The Campaign Poster Debaffler: 3 - Caroline Simons (Libertas)
God is nothing but a big stupid over-sensitive man with a beard that lives on a cloud
Darwin
: Back after a year! I found ...
fústar
: All Oatfield sweet packets look like they've been c...
Ms Avery
: What's up with the 'Easers' packet in the photo? It looks li...
fústar
: Emordino, That dessicated coconut tastes like shavings from...
emordino
: Emerald Greens are lovely yokes altogether. I'm also quite f...
All posts
Art
Bewildered Songs
Blogging
Comics
Doodles
Dreadful Thoughts
Euro 2008
Film
Folklore
Graffiti
Guest Posts
Interviews
Limerick
Literature
Museum
Music
Newspapers
Obscenity
Personal
Philosophy
Political/Social
Sport
Television
Toys/Manky Toys
Video Games
Weirdness
World Cup
Action Man
Aliens
Atari
Blog Awards
Brad Pitt Light Orchestra
Bunty
Campaign Posters
Christmas
David Sque
Dreadful Thoughts
Dreadful Thoughts Story Club
Eagle
Edith Wharton
Filthy
Fitz James O'Brien
Football
fustar.info
Girls' Comics
Godzilla
Graeme Dott
Graffiti
Halloween
Irish Blog Awards
King Kong
Late Late Show
M.R. James
Magnum PI
Manky Toy Monday
Manky Toy Show
Mixtape
Monkey's Paw
Obscenity
Roy of the Rovers
RTE
Saki
Sci Fi
Sex
Sigla
snooker
Spider-Man
Star Trek
Star Wars
Steve Davis
Whistle
Willow
Meta
Log in
Valid
XHTML
XFN
WordPress