This year, all 1 and a bit months of it, has been good to me.

Strangely, I've been asked by 3 colleges to contribute

comics to their 'Rag Mag'. You'd think they could handle

it themselves but hey, fuck it, the comics are already drawn

and it's good advertisement.

I was asked to draw a cover image and I banged this out in

20 mins (you'd never guess) But I reckon it was too

close to the bone for those crazy, hard drinking, cone

robbing slicksters. They dont want it. Oh precious

clamnuts.com, the great recycler of my dodgy and

unwanted artwork.

Having not gone to college I only have a vague idea

of what a Rag Week is but I'm fairly sure it

involves listening to The Thrills and all the men

bumming each other.

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A young ink stud by the name of Kyle Rogers has been

organising a comics challenge over on Boards.ie. The results

have yet to be posted and I'm really looking forward to

seeing what's on offer. The theme had to be 'Flight'.

It's a quickie, I was humming and hawwing over

inking it because I couldn't and still can't

figure if its a red bull ad rip off. The dirty pencils

looks decent though

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Muah ha! I'm delighted to announce some reader

has taken the time to give me the photoshop treatment.

Seriously, I love this shit! Below are a few headshots

so let me see me in some uncompromising scenes, try

keep images of big dicks out of any gay porn pics you

have in mind. This a faaahmly site.

Mail me if you need higher res.

Yes, here's more uber-gay product design from

the Bob Byrne line of tourist pap.

There's a thing in the current issue of The Dubliner magazine about
the present wave of 'new creatives' emerging in this kip. Good piece
as it touches on the lack of monetary support from The Arts Council
several times and yes, I'm one of the little brats adding my whinge
to the whinge-pot.

Proper order though, it's about time we made the Arts Council squirm
and at the end of the article they issued a general statement regarding
funding shortfalls but (still) no direct addressing of my beef

And speaking of beef, of the roasted variety, man, a word of advice
to y'all: If you know you have a photo shoot on the 4th January, don't
spend your 2 weeks of xmas holidays sitting on your hole playing
Call of Duty with Guinness on a drip and eating the leftover turkey
and ham from 5 different households. And get a haircut.

But rest assured ladies I've turned that fat back into spite and will
now on insist on bringing my trademark energy dome for all future
pics.

I can also proudly announce that I'm still operating the

'fickle little wanker' approach to every Irish publication,

meaning that I diss and pour scorn on every magazine

or newspaper till they give me some coverage. Despite

having John Rocha on the cover, The Dubliner has some really

decent articles in it wedged between ads for Graham

Knuttel and feta cheese or whatever us trendy young

cosmopolitan dicks like these days.

Rocha the Hutt. Yeah, that's it John, distract them from MY big

fat head

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In this modern day of pushes and shoves and the Internerd

becoming just one big annoying pop-up, it warms the cockles

of my heart to bump into a decent person in this

crazy cyber-world.

A couple of weeks ago I bid on this cd set, 1966-77

Tokustasu songs and its Companion 1978-2003 set

I love these songs and have scraps of them here and
there and would love them all in a tidy edition. I was outbid 40 cents on the second set.

When the seller replied to my

email about shipping info I checked out her site and

was vewwy impressed, Kimberly is an accomplished

photographer/artist and it felt good to buying something

from a real person as opposed to the usual ebay transactions.

Last week the cd's came. With a special gift. A copy of the cd's from

the other auction I lost!! Man, I've been buying stuff off ebay

for years and this is the first time the seller gave me what

I lost out on. For free.

I've since checked out Ms. Merlo-Lindbergs

bloggy thing and she's done something I always dream about;

spending Xmas in Tokyo. There's also a fascinating

piece about Tokyo's homeless. Great pics.

I sent her some Shiznits in return for her kindness

and the whole experience is making me re-think

what Pierre Omiydar continually harps on about

when talking about a 'community atmosphere'

on eBay. Thanks Kimberly.

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There's a teeny tiny pic of Roy Keane kissing a man in the

Shiznit issue 2 that was never posted. So here it is: