Archive for January 2008

Words Fail Me

Jan 31st, 2008 | By Bock | Category: Humour

What can you say about this?

(Thanks to Medbh at Dante and the Lobster).
This seems like a plastic Jesus moment, though I know we’ve had them before, but anyway, here’s Billy Idol.

Thanks to Sam Problemchildbride for prompting that.
Then of course, in a similar vein, we have this:

(Stolen from Bifsniff)
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Also:
Sweet Suffering Jesus



Blog Awards Wish-list

Jan 31st, 2008 | By Bock | Category: internet

If I don’t win anything, which I probably won’t, at least I’ll get to meet lots of interesting people people and get drunk and get … whatever, but there are three I’d like to see taking some silverware home.
One is Gimme. Not because I know him. I don’t, but he speaks to something [...]



Phone Found in Catherine Nevin’s Cell

Jan 31st, 2008 | By Bock | Category: Crime, Scandal, gardai, police

What a fuckin achievement!
What a great day for crime-fighting in Ireland!
Today, prison officers found a mobile phone in the cell of a woman who was probably framed and wrongly convicted of murder.  Isn’t that fucking great?  Won’t that make a big hole in the crime stats?  I bet the drug-dealing knackers running their empires [...]



The Torture of TS Eliot

Jan 31st, 2008 | By Bock | Category: Humour

When TS Eliot took shelter in a monastery, he could hardly have known how difficult his life was about to become.
Desperate for a peaceful haven to reflect, and suffering from a growing obesity problem, Eliot hoped that his Spartan surroundings would afford him the calm he needed to look inside himself, and he hoped the [...]



In the Name of God, Go!

Jan 31st, 2008 | By Bock | Category: Scandal, governance, politics

Bertie, you’re fucking caught, you crook.
British businessman Norman Turner gave you a bag of dollars and your Ministerial office processed his passport for him, even though he was entitled to an Irish passport anyway through his mother. Why was that, Bert?
Norman Turner brought you to several Manchester United matches, even though he hardly [...]



Irish Blog Awards: Long List of Candidates For “Best Blog” Prize

Jan 31st, 2008 | By Bock | Category: internet

The long list is out now.  Imagine all these bastards in one room, glaring at each other.  Imagine that.  Fuckin hell, I might have to bring an even larger contingent of associates than last year, for personal safety, you understand.
Here you go :-

Twenty Major
Beaut.ie
Planning Dispatch by Garry Miley
The Waiting Game
Bock The Robber
Lozenge
Nialler9
UnaRocks
Fustar
On The Record
The Torture [...]



Irish Blog Awards Fever

Jan 30th, 2008 | By Bock | Category: internet

As days lengthen and tempers shorten, we huddle in ragged, mutant clusters and one to another half-mutter the eternal question:
Well?
For too long, answer came there none until today, when Mulley took pity and offered us relief of sorts, using the venerable Irish tradition of The Leak.
Bock is in the long-list for best political blog and [...]



A Little Bit of Music

Jan 30th, 2008 | By Bock | Category: Music

Here’s one from Mule Variations. One of his best.
… it’s so hard to dance that way
when it’s cold and there’s no music …