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Thursday, April 27, 2006

Vote Irish Vote Now



Freak Show, the longest running and biggest selling Irish comic has been nominated for an Eagle award. Please Please PLEASE vote it here

It's listed as 2/4 FAVOURITE BLACK & WHITE COMICBOOK - British

The fact that it's listed as British makes me want it to win more. Rob Curley, the jive ass honky
who writes and publishes it is a good fwend of mine and if you have any interest in furthering the cause of Irish made comics, vote for his ass. C'mon let's stick it to the Hun, Wolftones/A Nation once again style.

You have to put your name and email in but you can just vote on whatever category you want unlike other e-voting things I've abused.

Don't presume somebody else will vote, do it now, ten seconds out of your day vs. 800 years of oppresion.

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Des Bishop is a silly billy and a retard



My blood brother, R Bonham is back on the case. Des Bishop's systematic patronising of minorities was stepped up a notch last week and I knew it was going to get the Bonham treatment. For all you studs out there unaware of what happened, here's a snippet from Bishop's site:

Hi,We were at the Des Bishop Gig on wednesday night and was appalled at to hear Des slagging off people with disability by using the derorgatory terms: "Retard" and "Handicapped". These words should NEVER be used by anyone, particularly those who are in the public view. I wonder how many people were in the audience that have a learning disability or have a relation or friend with a disability. To my horror Des Bishop addressed a person in the audience who in fact had a disability and was making some noise. Thinking he was being heckled, Des turned and asked what the problem was. The guy grunted several times, obviously unable to express his opinions, which egged him on even more. Des Bishop then asked "Are you a f**king retard or something?" and asked him to leave the gig. Again the guy could not respond and a member of the audience turned and said the person was handicapped. At this point the person and his support left the concert hall. Des started to apologise profusely on stage and asking them to reconsider and stay at the gig or get a refund. But the damage had already been done. The gig had been completely ruined and to apologise at that point was useless.Des makes a point of working with people in the minority and doing his bit for charity, but there are other groups in the minority who cant stand up for themselves. I think it is ignorant and abusive in modern ireland to refer to people with disability or someone acting like a "retard" and to use that as material on stage.

Read the other Des Bishop comic here.

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Elvis Costello, Jive ass Niggers and Spaz-feet

Muah ha!! It's like finding an embarrasing photo of your parents, on wikipedia at lunch reading about my main man Elvis Costello and............

His success in the US was severely bruised when, during a drunken argument with Stephen Still and Bonnie Bramlet in a Holiday Inn hotel bar, Costello referred to James Brown as a "jive-ass nigger", then upped the ante by pronouncing Ray Charles a "blind, ignorant nigger".

Whatever the context, it's funny.

If you want a further laugh, check out his spaztastic dancing in this youtube. If you saw a kid dancing like that you'd slap it or give it a course of injections to cure it's rickets. Such bendy little
legs and feet.

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Sunday, April 23, 2006

Haircut by a smackhead

As above.

I got my haircut by a junkie. I strolled down in the sun to the barbers on Saturday with my hair in much need of a cutting. I'm a scab so I always wash my hair before I go get it cut and by the time I got there it dried into a massive puffy afro



Yeah, from now on I'm including quick little sketches in my posts. Got in and the place was packed with the young males who get their cut every week, who are surprisingly not all fags, just like to keep it tidy and styled. I'm the opposite, not the fag bit. I let it go for months and months. After flicking through the tabloids they have on the table I was called. She was the only
female in the place, each of the eight chairs was manned by a man except this one. It was early Saturday morning so I was not alotogether shocked to see her in what I'd call pyjamas but still
thought it weird. I instantly could tell she was either dying from a hangover or whacked out of it on something. She gets spraying my hair and she done a bad job of it, should have figured that if she couldn't handle the spraying water part the chances were that this was going to end in tears.

She starts snipping, I make it clear that I'm not talking with my well practiced vacant stare. All of a sudden she freezes as if she's listening to something important on the telly but it wasn't the telly, they have it tuned constantly to some shit like 'Mens and Motors' the televisular equivalent of the tabloids on the table. Complete pap for complete saps. It continues and she jams a scissor tip into my head and I wince and she tuts to herself. She redeems hereslf with a burst of rapid cutting and it all appeared to be going swimmingly well. But with my fringe clamped between her fingers she sways backwards and I'm thinking she's going to pass out.
God bless my volumous locks because she manages to keep balance by clinging fast to my fringe.

When she holds up the mirror for me see the back of my head I sigh with relief. The ordeal was over. I paid and left. On the walk home, I'm stopping to look in shop windows trying to suss out if my new do is passable and thinking about what just happened. Can anybody just walk into a hairdressers and rent the chair off the shop and then keep what they earn? Loads of scenarios
popped up as to why a drugged person would be allowed to operate, they surely weren't understaffed that day. I got around to thinking how maybe she owned the place and then I had a flashback to when I was around 14 in the same place and had another crazy experience with a
blond hairdresser.

She was cutting away and all of a sudden she turns to her work mate on the the other chair, clutching her jacket thing cloded she sez:

And indeed she did, there was nothing on under her jacket thing and I saw a glimpse of the tit, not the nipple but an apple sized segment. I saw enough to get a few weeks out of it. I heard from a friend how he was once mad about a female hairdresser and went in to get his haircut every few days to see her . I thought it was funny, not because it was endearing in a Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan kind of way but because I would have presumed that she thought he must be gay to get his haircut so often thus scuppering all hopes with her.

Was the 'no bra' incident a ruse to get a young pervert like myself hooked on the heady mix of Brylcreem and striptease? Give me a glimpse so that i'd come back next week and tell all my pals to go there. I reckon it was the same girl alright, the bra girl and the junkie girl. Maybe she bought the place from all the cash she made from the ruse. Maybe that's why she was in her pj's and out of her mallet, her place - her rules.

But back to the no bra thing, I've always wondered if I could take a sly one off the wrist when they put the cape over you. I reckon it happens all the time. Ever wonder why sometimes she gives you a tissue when the haircut is over?

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