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POSTCARDS FROM THE HEDGE

I was perusing the Sunday papers the other day (it might have been Sunday, now that I think of it), when something dawned on me. I hate the Sunday papers. The first six days of the week, newspaper articles tend to follow the format: ‘Brian Cowan has announced…’, ‘Sources in Ballyjamesduff report…’ or ‘Grave robbers in Timbuktu have stolen…’ Read the rest of this entry »

IT’S CLOBBERIN’ TIME!

The world’s lamest superhero. Might he have been inspired by this?

THIS IS FUNNY

Two snare drums and a cymbal fall off a cliff. Read the rest of this entry »

YOUNG AMERICANS (1974)

“WHAT KIND OF PERSON WOULD USE THIS? A PSYCHIATRIC PATIENT?”

Oddly heart-warming video from the New York Times today about two Pakistani brothers who chanced their way into a most unlikely business venture. Two working class entrepreneurs in Karachi have amassed a $1m fortune exporting leather fetish and bondage gear to Europe and the U.S. But their employees have absolutely no idea what the products they’re manufacturing are used for.

WE ARE THE PIGS

Poor auld Dotty, huh? You could be next…

THIS IS FUNNY

What did the Buddhist monk say to the hot dog vendor? Read the rest of this entry »

FAITH ALIVE

1. There aren’t too many websites that save souls or induce seizures. But the insanely brilliant International Congress of Churches and Ministers website does both.
2. Self-harming satanist. This, I believe, is what is referred to on the internet as a: FAIL.
3. One from the archives. Saudi religious police prevent schoolgirls from fleeing a burning building because they’re not wearing proper Islamic dress.
4. Finally, Frank Sinatra: homosexual menace.

[UPDATE: ICCM website was down yesterday, now working again. Well worth checking out, very The Day Today-esque.]

SUNDAY IN SAVANNAH (1968)

Recorded live in concert on April 7th 1968; three days after the assassination of her friend Martin Luther King.

TAXI TO WESTON GARDENS, PLEASE!

I’m off now to the University of Limerick for Songs That Saved Your Life – A Two Day Symposium on Morrissey, which I’ll be writing about for The Ticket. Some of the scintillating lecture topics include Because I’ve Only Got Two Hands: Western Art Undercurrents in the Gestures and Poses of Morrissey and On The Problems of Being ‘Just Blindly Loved’: The Rhetoric of Fanaticism at Morrissey-Solo.com. (Yeah, cos those guys take the whole Morrissey thing waaay too seriously…)

I don’t know about you, but it sounds like fun, fun, fun to me!!!