Category archives: Newspapers
Slashing for Cash: This notion of barter is not that daring a thesis…
In response to Jane Ruffino’s challenge1 to respond (via Slash Fiction) to Eileen Battersby’s response to Stephen Fry’s response to something someone once said…or did…or something, I present this. It won me a dollar. “Rose Petals and Horse Dumps” Part… continue reading »
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 »
Big Ed Loves Mona (or “The Adventures of Balloon Boy”)
Today (or yesterday), somewhere in America (I can’t be bothered to check the details) a saucer-shaped balloon flew through the sky for a while. Then it “crashed” gently to earth. So far, so boring – unless you’re a rabid run-away… continue reading »
The Microfilm Miscellany: I Was born in Limerick
The “recession chic juggernaut of journalistic puke has no doubt inspired hacks to spew forth acres of “content” detailing “our” renewed love affair with public libraries. Once the preserve of the old, the milky, and the mad – these recession… continue reading »
Pissing (once more) on Bishops: Blasphemers Beware!
So it’s another of those boring old Wednesdays. You yawn your way apathetically through the morning. 11 o’clock arrives on time – Hoorah! Out you pop for a restorative coffee and a squint at the papers. Your eyes alight on… continue reading »
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 howled deafeningly and the rain fell in buckets poured by a wrathful (and unsympathetic) God. During those… continue reading »
Link Roads and Custard Pies
Though I rarely write about matters (overtly) political, and tend to leave the local reporting to “squid” et al, I couldn’t let an image from today’s Limerick Post go uncommented on. While sitting on the U.L. bus this morning, and… continue reading »
