Postcards from the Hedge

Having reviewed postcards on the stands around Dublin, I realised that I can go months without seeing a sheep, years without seeing an Irish cottage and even months without seeing a Guinness in this post-baby world I live in.

So, seeing a gap in the market, I am releasing a range of postcards of parts of Ireland that I and many commuters like me see every day. We need some postcards of the real Ireland. Here are the first two, from the 'local colour' range:

Stop Humping



Up the Royal Canal

Last Lost Girls Post

Taken from Neil Gaiman's blog (again), Alan Moore has a Radio Interview with the BBC available here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/audio/full_alan_moore_interview.ram where he talks more Lost Girls.

After the Lost Girls segment there is an entertaining bit on why his name will be on no more Hollywood movies and why he will not draw for American comics. He also talks about his books, describing his last 'Voice of the Fire' set entirely in Northamton as being 'a bit too cosmapolitian'.

F.Y.I Lost Girls is released in August, just in time for Sinéad's birthday. Lucky Girl.

More Lost Girls

For Anyone that's interested i.e me, there is more on Lost Girls on Neil Gaiman's Blog, where he attaches the original introduction to the book. He talks about pornography vs erotica.

You probably won't read it, but in one paragraph he says "If it failed for me, it was only as smut; the book, at least in large black and white photocopy form, was not a one-handed read. It was too heady, dense and strange to appreciate or to experience on a visceral level. (Your mileage may vary; porn is, after all, personal.)"

There has in the last ten years or so been a large intellectualisation/legitimisation of the role of pornography in society, which this book is liekly to be an extension of. Maybe the pornographer's lobby commissioned it? If I buy this book, which is looking more likely every second, I will really try to avoid this type of argument and review it as the smut it is.

Buying Pornography, Maybe.

I am thinking about buying Lost Girls by Alan Moore. It is a comic book (drawn by his wife Melinda) where Alice of Alice in Wonderland, Dorothy of The Wizard of Oz and Wendy of Peter Pan meet up to discuss their sexual exploits. If you’d like to know more Alan has a very funny/very crazy interview on Suicide Girls. The link is SFW, but don’t stray from the path, as the rest of Suicide Girls is very definitely NSFW. Any interview that has a question "The book is also very funny and of course there are funny moments that are written. But with something like the picture of Dorothy having sex with the Cowardly Lion, Melinda has drawn it in such a beautiful way that I’m not sure if it’s supposed to be funny" has to be worth 15 minutes of your time.

Anyway, I don’t think that Sinéad would mind terribly if I bought it, other then it costs about €60, we’d have to hide it from the boy till he gets older (how frightenly conservative of me) and we’d need to buy a coffee table to put it on. Is there a place in my life for an expensive oversized leatherbound pornographic alleged masterpiece? Maybe. The completist in me is screaming "buy it!, buy it" and I have very little self control when it comes to these things. I could hide behind the "Yes, but its Art!" debate, but not really.

I currently own one other porn book, again a comic by Spanish Artist Milo Manara, called the Art of Spanking. I bought it on a whim to give it to my father-in-law as a present. I bottled out from giving it to him and kept it. To this day I have never left it casually on a coffee table. I did make a 5’ poster of one of the frames from the book and gave it to friends as a present, which they framed and hung on the wall. It is quite an arresting sight.

I don’t know where I am going with this, other then that I have been thinking about posting pictures of myself naked on the internet (again). I mean it’s my blog, I can do what I want. Maybe I’ll leave my hybrid boxer/Y-front things on, maybe I won’t. Then I’ll photograph all my clothes, and have one of those games where people can come and dress me online.

Maybe I’ll make it into in a coffee table edition. Got to get a nice coffee table first.

Present Time

At the best of times I find it hard to buy my wife presents. June is usually an awkward month for me, its our 7th wedding anniversary followed a week later by my wife's birthday.

Any suggestions on presents greatly appreciated. We'll probably go out for a meal as well on top of it.

This is my current small list of ideas:

• Jewelry


• Give her money to buy clothes etc


• Some type of gadget maybe like an ipod?


• Beauty Saloon voucher

All ideas/suggestions welcome.

Also I need ideas for what my 4yr old can buy her as well.

End of the World

Is today the end of the world?

Some say it is, as predicted by the Number of the Beast 666
Today is the 6th Day of the 6th Month of the 6th year of the new millenium.

To be honest I wouldn't be surprised if 666 is bush's password for that nucelar red button that could cause the end of the world.

On another note the new Omen remake is released today to mark the occassion of the 666 Date.