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Interview with Beelzebub
October 8, 2009 – 1:12 am | 13 Comments
Interview with Beelzebub

Following from my recent interview with God (see here), I caught up with Satan to find out how things are going in the eternal, fiery pit of Hades. Enjoy!

A Herd of Managers?
October 7, 2009 – 12:00 am | 18 Comments
A Herd of Managers?

I was reminded on Saturday night of a post I wrote, in another place, about what the collective noun is for waiters. It was sparked by a conversation with a guest who had yet to …

How do you wear a cardigan ironically?
October 6, 2009 – 12:00 am | 11 Comments
How do you wear a cardigan ironically?

Whilst sauntering through town on Monday on my way to the dark place, work that is, I happened to find myself walking towards some of those shiny people who hand out handbills for shiny nightclubs. …

Hedonism Schism
October 5, 2009 – 12:01 am | 7 Comments
Hedonism Schism

We got to talking about designer drugs the other day.

I wouldn’t be too hot on the subject myself; to me, mephedrone sounds like a particularly humourless Transformer. Besides, I’m not one for designer anything; all …

I Want The Finest Leeches Known To Humanity…
October 2, 2009 – 12:01 am | 7 Comments
I Want The Finest Leeches Known To Humanity…

Oh, woe is me. I’ve just spent the last two and a half days in bed with Mild Flu. Even woe-er is me, Mild Flu is not the same of our Trinidadian pool boy … …

Ambush in Saigon (continued)
October 1, 2009 – 5:06 am | 15 Comments
Ambush in Saigon (continued)

I now present the final page of my war novel ‘Ambush in Saigon’ (read its first page here). In 1986, The Irish Times branded the book “…historically inaccurate on a Sergeant Bilko scale.”