Every Day is a Gif(t): Tumbley Hole Man
Formative experience recollection time.
It's a summer evening in, oh, 1979 (or thenabouts), and I'm standing – gob-smacked and...
Philosophy Category
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...
Hailing Jane
In a memorable exchange with his Jesus-lovin' father-in-law, Larry David (the "fictional" Curb Your Enthusiasm version) speculated...
Hard Boiled and Soft Core: Tastes of Ould Ireland
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With the Ryan Report's revelations continuing to dynamite the (already shaky) moral foundations of pious ould Catholic Ireland,...
God is nothing but a big stupid over-sensitive man with a beard that lives on a cloud
Of all the many wild 'n' wacky notions entertained and promoted by orgainsed religions, few can be as amusingly bonkos as the idea...
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 –...
It Came From the 1950s
News has reached me of a tremendously groovy conference being organised by the good people from The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror...
Of Free Will and Suggestion Boxes
I’m currently working my way through Paul Gravett’s1 recently-published (and much-needed) Great British Comics, and enjoying the...
