Tales Of The Gurrier

‘So what do we call ourselves?’
‘The Shock Jocks.’
‘I like that.’
‘You like everything.’
‘It’s catchy.’
‘You think everything’s catchy.’
‘Well I like it, it’s got sex appeal.’
‘We’re not The Shock Jocks. We are neither shocking nor exceedingly sporty.’
‘Or Scottish.’
‘What?’
‘Scottish, –Jocks–, it’s a term for Scottish people.’
‘I know, ‘The Electric Scotsmen!”
‘No, no, no, none of us are Scottish.’
‘Well none of […]

It’s election time again, that grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented season, that every four years sends ordure and ooze bubbling up from below the choked sewers of Kildare street and into our very lives. Witness the €184 billion of bling dropped on us this week under the the 7 year ‘National Development Plan’. That’s €40k […]

An astounding talk by Wade Davis of National Geographic, author of The Serpent and The Rainbow. Listened to this in the car yesterday evening and it lit my head on fire. I tracked down the video and present it here for your enjoyment.
If you have ever seen the Yanomami blowing that snuff up their noses…it’s […]

Crane was sweating. It was almost 8 o’clock. To the west, hung an exhausted sun, a glimmering crescent, rapidly disappearing beyond the horizon. Above him, the sky glowed a deep iridescent green, and a line from an old childhood verse flitted, unbidden, from his memory, to haunt him.
‘Green sky at night, Martian delight’
He wasn’t going […]