http://www.eoinbutler.com Mayoman of the Year Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:58:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Right, I'm off. We need some time apart. It's not you, it's me. Actually, I've been persuaded to do some real work for a change, so I'll have to take a few days off from here. Needless to say, I'm motivated and relishing the challenge. But first, some tea and ... http://www.eoinbutler.com/home/and-im-outtahere/ Now I don't know if that's true or not. But once, when we got caught out in a thunderstorm, I noticed him sprinting for the clubhouse in a manic, zigzag pattern - like a soldier dodging sniper fire... Read the rest of this article here. http://www.eoinbutler.com/home/they-say-the-guy-has-a-metal-plate-in-his-head/ It’s Thursday night in Break for the Border, a sprawling open-plan bar on split levels. There are pool tables and waitresses in hot pants. Rock and roll blasting from the speakers. Yee-haw! Why the hell haven’t I been here before? Aidan wants to play pool, but I refuse. I hate pool. ... http://www.eoinbutler.com/pub/break-for-the-border/ Zach Galifianakis' describes his 'look' on Saturday Night Live last night: * lighthouse attendant * homeless professor * marijuana Santa Claus * Vice President of Ultimate Frisbee * person who looks like they write on alpaca message boards * Wolf Blitzer at Burning Man He also claimed that he Febrezes his beard. As ... http://www.eoinbutler.com/home/this-is-funny-73/ I'd like to be the first to wish Stevie Wonder a happy sixtieth birthday. That's why I'm doing it two months early. (Well, it was either that or get the date right. And that's not the kind of operation I'm running here.) After the jump - chosen, admittedly, off the ... http://www.eoinbutler.com/home/the-60-year-old-genius/ Jay-Z is in the Whitehouse. In related developments: This is Funny. Also, next week's pub column is one protracted lead-in to a lame Jay-Z based joke. I haven't written it yet tho... http://www.eoinbutler.com/home/breaking-president-to-drop-da-bomb/ Just a year ago Steve Appleton stood on the brink of megastardom. DJs spun him. Whole clubs dug him. And entire musical genres melded in his wake. Twelve months later, The Appletizer is stuck in a (dirty) funk. His only scheduled performance of 2010 is an £8, over-14s show later ... http://www.eoinbutler.com/home/dirty-funk-it-went-that-way-mate/ What did the Buddhist monk say to the hot dog vendor? "Make me one with everything." #2 So the vendor makes the hot dog and the monk pays him with a twenty, which the vendor pockets. After waiting for a moment, the monk asks for his change. The vendor looks at him ... http://www.eoinbutler.com/home/this-is-funny-72/ http://www.eoinbutler.com/home/new-age-1970/ Whatever life has thrown at her she has always taken it with a smile. Let’s hope she finds happiness with new love Marcus... Read the rest of this article here. http://www.eoinbutler.com/home/hats-off-to-tvs-carol-smillie/