Reorganising The Hovel
Hello internet.
Not much happening here lately due to intense work and possibly mild exhaustion related delirium. The end to my internet connection woes came at last and I am once again the proud owner of a eye blistering 2mbps broadband connection. After three weeks of nothing but complete arseballs from NTL I will be receiving a credit of €13.26 on my next bill. In other NTL related news I discovered that over the past six months they have siphoned (stolen) a further €300 from my bank account via direct debit on an account cancelled in February. NTL if you’re listening you are scum, hear me, scum. I want my money bastards. I’m coming for my damn money!
On to other matters. Some things for you to read and peruse.
I wrote this post ages ago and meant to put in the new links but instead let it sit on my hard drive and now Mr. Struthers has been kind enough to link to me it reminded me to post this up.
Filthy Irish
Globaleyes , In the past I have been accused of being a pale and tawdry impersonation of this gentleman. Those accusers do me a great kindness and I unreservedly accept the compliment. Mr Globaleyes, aka Birdbath; a member of the stalwart Blather community has graced the internet with his presence for these many years and recently moved to a new home. Check him out. He has been about the Irish bit of the internet since back in my halcyon days at Beerandloathing and it’s good to see the rage has not left him.
Back then we all had 33k dial up modems and steam powered Babbage machines running on bitumen and tar paper. They stank to high heaven but you could get 4 bits to the mile if you throttled her right back and didn’t flood the boxtank. That’s an old English country mile too.
[You should also pay a visit to his friend Wurzeltod if only for the terrible things Warren Ellis will do to you if you do not and also for those wonderful oddities she uncovers.]
The Snackbox Diaries - Another fine addition from the Blather collective. This fellow writes dirty things. Dirty, dirty, dirty. I like it.
Blogorrah - An Irish version of Defamer. A recent addition to my reading list. I’ll admit I didn’t want to like this site; owned as it is by this fellow. (A gentleman whose previous doomed enterprises I had the misfortune to be peripherally involved in. Perhaps you saw the documentary. I saw so much more gentle readers, so much more. That story will keep for another day.) Also they publish a magazine in the U.S. about dressing up your dog like a whoor. The world needs less of that. However I am not a man too small to admit I was wrong. I like Blogorrah and find it well written, witty and the editors are spot on in their skewering of the Irish meeja and celebri-whores. Also I want to know, where do they find those wonderful photos.
Through the Megatonne Marble - Home of Neil Struthers - A gentleman dandy from Derry. I see greatness in him. Nascent potential like a young Dr. Jekyll, poised to sweep down from the North and smash us with his banter, wit and huge meaty hands. Actually I place Neil with the Filthy Irish but he may prefer to languish under the banner of Perfidious Albion. I know not. If you have a preference Neil please holler out. I don’t hold with politics here and all my grudges are held in equal esteem.
From foreign shores and parts unknown:
Yanqui Devils
Zenarchery - Geek, Blogger, Musician, Designer, Writer, Doctor, Citizen Journalist, Las Vegan, Father of the Grim Meathook Future, Dr. Joshua Ellis he’s a one man Rennaisance. He’s also slightly crazy. I mention this only because he lives in Las Vegas and thus cannot have me killed. Probably.
How to Write Screenplays Badly , These chaps really are very good.
The Show with Ze Frank , The very best thing on the internet right now. Ze Frank is superlative, go watch this please. Really, I mean it. Stop reading this and all that other shite on Bloglines and go watch ten episodes of this.
Perfidious Albion
Warren Ellis , This gentleman can smell the future. It smells of wrong.
Charlie Stross , This gentleman can taste the future. It tastes of chicken and doom, doom mostly.
August 30th, 2006 at 3:10 pm
hey there,
thanks for the link and the kind comments. enjoyed reading yer blog!
August 31st, 2006 at 10:24 am
Cheers Birdbath, glad you like the site. Pass on my compliments to the Blather team and keep up the good work.
August 31st, 2006 at 12:43 pm
I could hug you, but I’ll not–it would just be awkward and I doubt we’d ever be able to talk of it again.
Many thanks for the kind words and linkage. My current position in the lower decks amongst the Filthy Irish, by-the-wayside, is fine by me.
August 31st, 2006 at 10:35 pm
Steerage it is then.
Hugs amongst manly men are fine so long as they are followed by outbursts such as “so how about that local sports team then!” etc.
September 1st, 2006 at 11:07 am
Ara you wouldn’t want to be rousing the interest of that blather crew, god knows where you’d find yourself.
September 1st, 2006 at 1:50 pm
ah sure we’re a cuddly bunch really. until someone mentions scientology. or squirrels. and then yer fucked.
September 1st, 2006 at 1:54 pm
I knew this squirrel once. Kept goin’ on about Thetans and whatnot.
It was mad though.
September 3rd, 2006 at 2:11 pm
Oh God what have I done.