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Dear Flann: Readers’ mailbag
September 3, 2009 – 2:52 am | 8 Comments
Dear Flann: Readers’ mailbag

Anybody who’s ever written an unofficial biography about you has died in mysterious circumstances. Why is that? 
Fred,
Dungavin

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!

Final Page: Sense and Prejudicability
August 13, 2009 – 2:47 am | 26 Comments
Final Page: Sense and Prejudicability

In the fourth instalment (see previous instalments here) of my ‘Final Page’ series, I now present the last page of my period drama ‘Sense and Prejudicability’. First published in 1992, my agent Diane begged me …

Interview with God
August 6, 2009 – 4:01 am | 23 Comments
Interview with God

Me: God, thanks for taking the time to speak with Coddle Pot.
God: No problem.
Me: We know you’re busy.
God: Hmmm? Oh…yeah, sure.

Questions and Answers (with Ronaldo and Paris Hilton)
July 30, 2009 – 2:43 am | 10 Comments
Questions and Answers (with Ronaldo and Paris Hilton)

Me: This week on Questions and Answers, former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern…
Bertie Ahern: Good evening.

Dear Flann: Readers’ mailbag
July 22, 2009 – 11:59 pm | 20 Comments
Dear Flann: Readers’ mailbag

 
I hear you were a qualified doctor in the 60s. If medicine is a vocation, why did you stop practising?

Dorothy,
Sydney
It was simple maths Dorothy. A medical review board determined that patients were sixty-five times …

Final Page: Vito Schillaci
July 16, 2009 – 1:44 am | 16 Comments
Final Page: Vito Schillaci

In the third instalment (see previous instalments here) of my ‘Final Page’ series, I now present the last page of my Mafia novel ‘Vito Schillaci’. Though critical response was muted when first published in 1987, …

The Racist Friends Spin-off that Never Aired
July 13, 2009 – 11:56 pm | 17 Comments
The Racist Friends Spin-off that Never Aired

In 2003, writer and producer David Crane approached me to guest-write a one-off, racist episode of the multi-award winning sitcom Friends. Laughs were put on hiatus, and characters instead asked to negotiate a gritty, thought-provoking …