Tag archive: Campaign Posters
The Campaign Poster Debaffler: 8 – Gay Mitchell’s Quantum Head-Fuck
The presidential election. 15 days away. It will happen in a place/time called “the future”. A contested place/time that does not yet exist, or maybe does. We live, after all, in a time of uncertainty. I don’t mean a “Will… continue reading »
The Campaign Poster Debaffler: 6 – The Road Goes Ever On & On…
And so it begins. The most important, epoch-defining, potentially-apocalyptic election since Cain went up against Abel for Emperor of the Trans-Quantum-Multiverse. Blood will flow. Tears will…also flow. Heads will be cracked open with stones. Public discourse will be stained with… continue reading »
The Campaign Poster Debaffler: 5 – Think of the Children!
While the weary lamp-posts of the country already heave ‘neath the strain of alarmist, reductive, populist, faux-chummy, batshit and reactionary Yes/No posters, Libertas have just shown that there are still new depths to be plumbed…cranking the vomit-o-meter up to 11… continue reading »
The Campaign Poster Debaffler: 4 – The Watery Adventures of Toiréasa Ferris (Sinn Féin)
Early yesterday morning – as the wife the daughter, and the husband/father (i.e. myself) strode (and rolled) towards the Milk Market – we chanced upon the Sinn Féin Marine Assault Unit, out on maneuvers. Their movements were simultaneously furtive and… continue reading »
The Campaign Poster Debaffler: 3 – Caroline Simons (Libertas)
Our third slice of “Debafflement” sees the series move from local level to European, and from Shannonside to the banks of the Liffey. Courtesy of Simon McGarr comes the below image. He’s (presumably) baffled and bewildered and needing our help.… continue reading »
The Campaign Poster Debaffler: 2 – John Cronin
The “Campaign Poster Debaffler” next focuses its critical gaze on the kindly physog of Cllr. John Cronin. Here he be: First impressions suggest a zero-tolerance approach to nonsense. A plain white background free of fireworks, fluffy clouds, chortling babies, or… continue reading »
The Campaign Poster Debaffler: 1 – Fine Gael’s Cormac Hurley
As local/European elections loom into view (and candidates hock their wares & crush their policies into tasty sound bite form) there will, no doubt, be much sober, earnest and considered debate on the Irish blogoweb regarding gains, losses, shocks and… continue reading »
