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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.
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In the name of Christ* Shut the Fuck Up!
*plus other assorted superheroes, talking clouds, invisible beings and Oprah Dearest Dermot, (dermot@dermotahern.ie, dermot.ahern@oireachtas.ie) I would like to congratulate you for your excellent use of the tax payers resources and your own energy with your proposed new blasphemy law. By Christ’s Hairless Taint, this is the best thing I’ve heard of in a long time.… Read more
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Short Story: Lake Superior
Image: lake superior by pierrestephanie, available under Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic. Download: Lake Superior (16 Meg, MP3) License: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States Lake Superior I was fifteen the year Tom died. But this story isn’t about him. I was fifteen and greyhound lean. I drove an Oldsmobile Rocket 88 Convertible. But… Read more
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Can’t beat a good jingle
My dear friend Mark seems to being having success upon success with his Wired FM show ‘Cult Friction‘, a “new programme charting the wonderful surreal world of Science Fiction, Horror and all things cult from Movies to Comic Books, TV shows”. Using his nordie wiles, Mark has succeeded in conning his way into some notable… Read more
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100 Words
At P Con last week they ran a fun little contest. The idea was to produce a complete short story (SF, horror or fantasy) in just 100 words. In the end my efforts didn’t place, though I’m egotistical enough to suspect the judge didn’t grok them what-so-ever. Perhaps he just preferred the story about… Read more
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Two Businesses That Don’t Exist, But Should
I attended the Phoenix Convention last weekend. The con is a literary Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy gathering, which this year included some fascinating panels on micropublishing and ebooks, both easily worth the price of admission alone. I will hopefully do a more detailed post on the con as a whole in the near future,… Read more
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Cowen stripped naked and hanged.
The Taoiseach Brian Cowen made like Mussolini recently after he was stripped naked and hanged. And much like the rotund fascist he didn’t seem to take it too well. Indeed following this report by RTE our old friends at Fianna Fail and their media toadies threw their toys out of the pram, claiming that the… Read more
