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Dreadful Thoughts: I May Have Snookered Myself…

Pot the red 'n' screw back, for the yellow, green, brown, blue, pink 'n' black…Snooker Loopy

Near enough to the last minute I know, but I wonder if I might humbly request a Dreadful Thoughts …

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Twinkle Twirl… you’re wonderful…!!!!!

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As the "Dreadful Thoughts" club badges begin to wing their way around this wide world (i.e. Ireland) my thoughts have turned from the sunlit plains of munificence to the shadowy valleys of …

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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 etc - the most dismal environment I've encountered was a sitting-room full of unemployed lads and lassies in …

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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 the possibility of me (at some time in my life) …

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The Museum of Cultural Waste: Quicksilver

Plain People of Ireland: (brightly) "Well", as the divil once said, "That's the Christmas over for another year thank God!"

Myself: Indeed. A bloated orgy of drink, turkey and ostentatious consumption…

Plain People of Ireland: (unsure) That's …

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To Whom it Concerns…It’s The Manky Toy Show (Live)!

9.00 - Hup! Hup! Quiet down now.

Welcome dear friends, lads and lassies, boys and girls, mices and meeses, to the first ever fustar.info Manky Toy Show. We have a great live program (un)prepared for …

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The Toy Show: An Alternative

Like many unwashed, barefoot children of pre-SUV Ireland, the Late Late Toy Show was (far more than the birth of a certain Nazarene) what Christmas was all about for me. Uncle Gaybo & Star Wars merchandise (yay!), Wooden Toys, Billy …

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Manky Art Thursday: The Spirit of Duty Free

Since last I added a post to this blog (on the festive subject of hideous deformity) I've done a fair bit of running (5 miles, for Charity) and a small amount of sitting around in airports. A good deal …

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