Tag archive: Star Trek
You’d Never Know they were Anatomically Correct…
For those of you who weren’t present in Exchange Dublin last Thursday night to hear it (i.e. all of you) here’s the piece of sit-down comedy reading I performed (as part of Gareth Stack’s Marshmallow Ladyboy Jesus). ————————————————————————————————————————————– The fragmented… continue reading »
Songs for the Bewildered: We’re Going out the Same Way we Came in
A twiddled knob? A pair of headphones loosely clasped to a pair of ears? A graphic equalizer being slyly manipulated by a finger? Standing around in a cardigan? The classic hallmarks of no-budget, guerrilla music-video-making. Big Tom (one of Ireland’s… 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 »
Lousy Human Bastards!
[Being the second, and final, part of the "I was home sick so I watched the Planet of the Apes Box-set" reflections] Given that Star Trek films tend to range from the awful (The Final Frontier, Insurrection) to the just… continue reading »
It’s life, Jim…
‘Guest Post’ by Copernicus I enjoy taking a certain immoderately smug view of myself predicated on a few pleasing cultural tropes. I have browsed intelligently among the moderns and the postmoderns, committed to memory verses both metered and free. I… continue reading »




