Tales Of The Gurrier

The following is a account of a recent experience I had whilst abroad in the Filthy City. I must stress this is a verbatim report. I did not make this up. Gentle readers you have been forewarned. Scene: A car dealership in a Dublin suburb. Let’s call it Tallaght. Enter: A gentleman (lets call him [...]

Can there be a fouler creature ever spawned from the duplicitous wombs of woman? When they were handing out souls in heaven Affleck got the scrapings from the rotten wing fungus of whatever pox ridden, leprous cherub was stuck with the job that day. A big open face like a side of beef hitting a [...]

This story on the BBC about the Biscuit city, Thousands of biscuits and sweets are being used to build a cityscape in a London department store. The installation by Chinese artist Song Dong, 40, depicts a traditional Asian city linked to a more modern city complete with stadium and church. Selfridges’ customers can tuck in [...]

This wonderfully titled book contains entries taken from the ancient Irish Annals which include a ‘Table of cosmical phenomena, epizootics, famines and pestilences in Ireland’. This book confirms my belief that Ireland has always been a terrifying place to live. Here’s a sample AD 443 A hairy star appeared AD 690 It rained a shower [...]

Here’s a thing, Podbop. Stick in the name of your town or city. Abraca-clickty webmagic and you get a podcast sampler of upcoming bands. You can play them directly in the browser, download the tunes individually or subscribe to the podcasty goodness. Plus the site will also give you a link to the upcoming gig [...]

Public Service Announcement: If you are using WordPress 2.0 here’s an annoying bug to note. If you upload an image to the editor and use an apostrophe in the ‘Post Title’ or in the ‘Title’ of the image it breaks the little bit of Javascript code that gives you a popup menu when you click [...]

I hope he hasn’t read this. The most popular post with Googlers, the next one is Samantha Mumba’s pants, people looking for ‘muties’ and most worryingly one person searching for ‘recollection of horse semen’.

Part I of The Gurrening is here. It was much later when The Gurrier awoke. His head was swimming and he felt like someone had put his tongue in backwards and glued it to the roof of his mouth. He’d seen Kesey do that to someone before and was relieved when he felt it move [...]