Category archives: Toys/Manky Toys
Upon Death’s Purple Altar: The 2009 Manky Toy Show – Live!
(Curtain draws back to reveal…not a stage, but bare concrete walls atop a bare concrete floor. On this floor are two bins. In Bin A sits “The Man” – an emaciated figure sporting a sick-stained tailcoat, a battered top-hat, and… continue reading »
‘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? Dead. Michael Jackson? Dead. Karl Malden? Dead. Patrick Swayze? Dead. Konstantin Feoktistov; Danny La Rue; Jeremy Clarkson? Dead,… continue reading »
Manky Toy Monday: Footsie for Boys & Girls
932 days ago – back when Manky Toy Monday first announced itself to an awed & agog interweb – the world was a radically different place. People had jobs. People had gold-plated houses. People didn’t have swine flu. 932 days… continue reading »
Manky Toy Monday: Enlighten Children on a Brains
Oh passionate fans of bootleged tat, please forgive me. It’s been six full (or empty) months since I brought you any Manky Toy badness. Six full (or empty) months in which you’ve all, no doubt, wailed yourselves to bitter (fitful)… 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 »
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 »
