Posted in Comedy, Flann O'Brien, dublin, Ireland on Sep 2nd, 2008 3 Comments »
[ K. McAleer lifted from timeout.com / D. Allen half inched from, ahem, timesonline.co.uk ]
Conor’s post last week (complete with a graph) on comics, their politics, their funniness and the correlations between the three ( Balance and Comedy do not Mix ) got me thinking on some of the comics missing from the […]
Posted in Flann O'Brien, music on Jan 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
[ Quigley / A Tram ( not the Ringsend one, though…. ) ]
From my watery retreat, I have managed to notice in recent years that the names of bands are becoming stranger and stranger. This may or may not be linked with factors rendering the coppers taller - De Selby should be consulted on this […]
Posted in Flann O'Brien, Bike Sex, aesthetics on Nov 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Straight out of Flann O’Brien, except it isn’t. It happened in Scotland. From the BBC.
A man caught trying to have sex with his bicycle has been sentenced to three years on probation.
Robert Stewart, 51, admitted a sexually aggravated breach of the peace by conducting himself in a disorderly manner and simulating sex.
Sheriff Colin Miller also […]