Eoin Butler: writer, journalist and Mayoman of the Year
Tripping Along The Ledge
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SONGS OF PRAISE: EVERY GRAIN OF SAND (1981)
“In the fury of the moment I can see the Master’s hand / In every leaf that trembles, in every grain of sand…”
LADIESH AND GENTLEMEN…
Urrgh… My hangover this morning (afternoon? No, right now is first thing in the morning for me) is directly proportional to how drunk I had to be to get on stage last night. (Last night was the stand-up thing I referred to in a previous post.) All told, it really wasn’t that bad. I learned a couple of things. (1) If you curse, people will laugh. (2) If you shout a curse, people will cheer. As it happened, I was very lucky in that my set was bookended by quite possibly the two worst comedians of all time. That definitely made me look good. Read the rest of this entry »
WARM NIGHT (2004)
DAMMIT GIBBS, WE’RE NOT ORDERING SUPERMACS… NOT AGAIN
THIS IS FUNNY
What has nine arms and sucks? Read the rest of this entry »
TODAY ON THE INTERNET I LEARNED…
1. That Robert Llewellyn from Scrapheap Challenge and Kryten from Red Dwarf are the same person.
2. That Donald Rumsfeld is an even scarier man that had been already suspected (albeit with zero flair for graphic design).
3. And that, perhaps unsurprisingly, Jamie Foxx will not be playing Frank Sinatra in Martin Scorsese’s forthcoming biopic.
SONGS OF PRAISE: FLINT (FOR THE UNEMPLOYED AND UNDERPAID) (2004)
(P.S. Five years on, conditions in Flint have one become even harsher and more repressive!)
STOP ME IF YOU THINK THAT YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE…
“It’s like a cross between going back to university and joining a religious cult” reckons Steve Berry from Hertfordshire, as he surveys the scene. I’d have said a “rockabilly Star Trek convention” myself, but we won’t split hairs. Read the rest of this article here.
LE BATEAU IVRE
I followed deadpan Rivers down and down,
And knew my haulers had let go the ropes.
Whooping redskins took my men as targets
And nailed them nude to technicolour posts. Read the rest of this entry »
SONGS OF PRAISE: SINNERMAN (1965)
Where you gonna run to?