Posts tagged with 'Manky Toy Monday'

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...

‘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?...

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...

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....

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...

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...

The Manky Toy Show 2008: The Countdown Begins…

Ask square and un-hip members of society what the highlight of their 2007 Christmas season was and they'll most likely answer: the...

Manky Toy Monday: Rapid, Fighter, Apex

I've mentioned (somewhere) before that I, like most children, was more than happy to mix, match and mash together toy worlds and universes...

Manky Toy Monday: Action Dan the Fireman

Firemen are, as we all know, potent, smoke-stained icons of manliness. Anyone who's ever called them out to tackle a chip pan fire,...

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...

The Award for Most Tentacles Goes to…

I Another year, another head-butt in the nuts. This blog's sixth and seventh Irish Blog Awards nominations went the same sorry way...

The Big Manky Blog Awarding Night Out

On February 27th (yes, this very day) last year I 'penned' a Manky Toy post about the delectable Maureen – a doll beautifully...

Manky Toy Monday: Phantasms and Maniac Bellows

A Manky Toy double-bill for you on this glorious Monday (glorious because the sun has his/her hat on and I'm off work). Through no...

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...

Manky Toy Monday: Composite Happy

Sings *Every day is like Monday, Every day's a manky fun day" Yes indeedy, Tuesday is the new Monday – or at least it is for...

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