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The Spy Who Gave Broadsheet Editors The Horn

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The Russian spy scandal presently unfolding raises a host of intriguing questions, not just about Moscow’s relationship with it’s former Cold War enemies, but also, given the timing of the arrests, about President Obama’s relationship with his own clandestine services. Unfortunately, I’m going to watch a football match now. So here’s a photograph of a hot girl. Thank you, broadsheet newspapers!

July 3rd, 2010. 10 Comments »

Troll Bait


Worth watching the whole way through. Quite weirdly fascinating.

July 2nd, 2010. 3 Comments »

Are you there God? It’s me, Kaka

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Look I’ve got to be honest here, folks. I’ve got football fever. I’ve got World Cup mania. Seriously, I’m laid up with a bad case of soccer conjunctivitis here. Whatever way you spin it, the fact is I’m writing this week’s column with my laptop perched on my knees, the television blaring and I’m not even going to pretend otherwi… THAT WAS A MILE OFFSIDE, REF. ARE YOU BLIND!? Read the rest of this entry »

July 1st, 2010. 8 Comments »

This is Funny

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My friends tell me I can be a bit patronising. Read the rest of this entry »

June 28th, 2010. 2 Comments »

Berlin (1973)


Not only the title track from Reed’s best solo album – check out The Kids, one of the most heartbreaking songs you’ll ever hear – but also the name of the city I’ll be in by the time any of you suckers read this.

There’s a really freaky/disturbing fact about the latter track after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

June 27th, 2010. 2 Comments »

Miscellaneous Amusing Items I Come Across #41

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Next time the neighbours bang on your wall at 3am, try shouting “Sorry Mrs Murphy, but this is necessary partying!”

June 26th, 2010. 3 Comments »

Published: The Dubliner, June 2010

In case anyone was worried I wasn’t using my break from blogging productively

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It’s one o’clock in the afternoon. The sun is shining. The sky is blue. And I’m plonked on the couch in my boxer shorts eating Crunchy Nut Corn Flakes and watching the World Cup. Watching football while everyone else is at work? Christ, it’s good to be alive. If someone had asked me when I was a kid, what kind of life I wanted when I grew up – I gotta tell you, I’d have settled for a lot less than this.

The postman sneaks his nose around the open door. There are a couple of bills for me. Who’s winning, he asks? Serbia, I say. Klose has just been sent off. Postman looks pissed off. Miroslav Klose, he asks? Yup. Shite, I have him on my Fantasy Football team. Read the rest of this entry »

June 24th, 2010. 3 Comments »

You’re Wondering Now (1979)

June 24th, 2010. Comment now »

This is Funny

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Feck sumo wrestling lesbians flirting with men dressed as snicker bars, THIS is the newspaper headline of the year. Note the tagline: Europe’s best designed newspaper. (With thanks to Ken Early.)

June 24th, 2010. 12 Comments »

So France are out of the World Cup…

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* Actually, I’m not really that bitter about November. If anything, it’d have been more entertaining if they could have remained in the competition. But I do love this picture. Ha, the only way I could like it more would be if I’d punched him in the face myself!

June 22nd, 2010. 5 Comments »