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Ears Fears
August 31, 2009 – 12:01 am | 13 Comments
Ears Fears

All over the gaff, from all angles, there’s a lot of chit chat (veering into shit chat) on the topic of illegal downloading, or piracy for those of us who like to paint it as …

Rose-Tainted Eardrums
August 28, 2009 – 12:01 am | 9 Comments
Rose-Tainted Eardrums

I promised myself that I wouldn’t write about The Rose Of Tralee this year.

But then, I also promised myself that I’d uncover the meaning behind that strange graffiti in the jacks of An Cruiscin Lan, …

Walk Softly and Carry a Bag of Sticks
August 27, 2009 – 12:01 am | 20 Comments
Walk Softly and Carry a Bag of Sticks

Once upon a time, the Communist atheist New York Times write an editorial in which it was warning that Fascism could arrive in America “silently, slowly, like fog creeping in on little cat feet.”  I …

Che Guevara Lives!*
August 26, 2009 – 12:01 am | 12 Comments
Che Guevara Lives!*

As my regular reader will know, the southern part of the island of Fuerteventura is comprise of the province of Jandía, which is all very beautiful and mountainous and also with the long broad beaches …

More Flatulence than Influence…
August 25, 2009 – 12:00 am | 14 Comments
More Flatulence than Influence…

So according to Simply Zesty – Online PR and Social Media website I am the 17th Most Influential Irish Person on Twitter. Get in! Well you can just imagine the whoop whooping of delight when …

Endangered Speedsies
August 24, 2009 – 12:01 am | 11 Comments
Endangered Speedsies

With half the country out of work and annoying the fuck out of me by getting to lie in on Monday mornings, I’m hardly going to say that this bloody recession isn’t as bad as …

Where Have All The Fly-By-Night Boys Gone?
August 21, 2009 – 12:01 am | 13 Comments
Where Have All The Fly-By-Night Boys Gone?

B*Witched. Stirrup leggings. Pat Kenny. Oh, the list of bugbears from my past that haven’t actually fucking stayed there would be much too long to post here,

Interview with Michael Jackson (via Uri Geller)
August 20, 2009 – 2:49 am | 20 Comments
Interview with Michael Jackson (via Uri Geller)

In his first interview since dying, the King of Pop Michael Jackson sits down for a chin-wag with Coddle Pot, via the psychic ducting of Uri Geller’s frontal lobe. I shit you not. Enjoy!