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ARTICLES
alfred jarry: absinthe, bicycles and merdre
August 14th 2003:
Originally
published on disinfo.com,
Jarry's influence has been considerable. While he himself owes much
to Rabelais, movements such as Dadaism, Surrealism, Futurism, Expressionism
Cubism, Theatre of the Absurd - all owe debts to his works. Picasso,
Flann
O'Brien, The Marx Brothers, the Goons, Mad magazine, Robert
Anton Wilson, Monty Python and their spawn were all influenced
by Jarry, whether they knew it or not . . . more>>
Saints and
Shinners
July 18th 2003:
Originally
published in The
Yoke, Lily White explores the sexual peccadilloes
of an Irish political party, replicating the US model involving
crack teams of interns, rigorously trained to penetrate the highest
echelons of government.
Super Sargasso Surfin'
June 11th 2003:
Originally
published in The
Anomalist in 1998, Dave Walsh gets all weird about sailings
ships in the sky, and rains of frogs
Attack of the Clones
April 25th 2003:
Why are manufactured boy bands and girl bands so utterly objectionable? Damian DeBarra claims that they are a threat to society...
Let's Get Spiritual, Spiritual
Feb 18th 2003:
Damien DeBarra goes all spiritual in Brighton. He doesn't meet the dead, see any vampires or goths. What he does experience is a rather sober spiritualist service.
Bruce Sterling: Furoshiki Revisited
Feb 3rd 2003:
Almost a decade ago ago, cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling put forward a vision of a multi-purpose, wearable computer. He dubbed it 'Computer as Furoshiki'. Blather's Dave Walsh asks him if the fabric PC is any closer to reality
I See Dead People
Nov 18th 2002:
Mick Cunningham & Dave Walsh spend Halloween cooped up with Irish State Pathologist John Harbison and David Whittaker, Professor of Forensic Dentistry at the University of Wales, for the public lecture Over Their Dead Bodies... The Secrets That Dead Bodies Tell
Them & Us
Nov 10th 2002:
Maria Behan goes to see Jon Ronson, in Belfast's Linen Hall Library. Ronson, smokes, drinks, swears and reads from his book, Them: Adventures With Extremists
Maybe It's Because I'm
Not A Londoner
October 30th 2002:
Blather comes out of the woodwork to attend the Megalithomania comference in London.
How I Failed
The Turing Test Without Even Being There
October 23rd 2002:
Blather guest writer, Robby Garner, winner of the Loebner prize for two years running, explains how he failed this year's Turing test. Very impressive, as he is a human being. Apparently.
Sterling Work
October 15th 2002:
Dave Walsh talks to Bruce Sterling about the Dead Media Project and Viridian Design Movement
Virus Hoaxing: Scrub Your Mind
October 2nd 2002:
The fear of viruses is disproportionate to the potential of any actual virus, argues Dave Walsh
Give Me Interactivity Or Give Me Death
October 1st 2002:
Blather's Dave Walsh gets Medieval on the concept of Interactivity. What does it really mean?
Hibernia Romana: What
did the Romans ever do for us?
April 19th 2002:
Damien
DeBarra explores Ireland's forbidden archaeology - did the Romans
really invade Ireland?
The Water Wizards Part
I - Schauberger
February 2nd 2002:
Formerly published in the now defunct 'Source' magazine in Autumn
1999, daev discusses the works of Viktor Schauberger and his theories
of vortex implosion.
The Water
Wizards Part II - The Interview
February 2nd 2002:
Formerly published in the now defunct 'Source' magazine in Autumn
1999, daev explores why people are strapping spirals of copper to
their water pipes, and speaks to Con Connor of Ireland's 'Living
Water Workshop'.
Blather on TV. Zorro.
Catgut.
October 23rd 2001:
Blather on Telly. Zorro was from Wexford. Do we look like we know
anything about catgut?
hairy tarot abductees
October 1st 2001:
The Raelians are coming - to Dublin. Shite! Lots of it. Hairy dairy
Men - we have none.
tarot junkies
October 1st 2001:
Life getting you down? Feeling a bit out of control? How do you
cope with the curve balls life throws you? Guest writer Annmarie
O'Connor gets up close and personal with Dublin Tarot readers.
where has all the weirdness
gone?
September 23rd 2001:
Some time ago, we grew weary of writing about the paranormal. It
was a pathetic state of affairs - the bizarre became, for us, the
mundane. So, we shut up, and stopped writing about it. Now, without
for one minute claiming that we somehow caused a fugue in the Hibernian
gestalt or a committed grievous quantum act, for some reason people
in Ireland stopped sending us weird shit. We miss it, in some twisted
way.
savage controversies
July 3rd 2001:
Blather is Dead - Long Live the New Blather. We're back, and we
have no excuses, explanations or promises to make or break. We're
sick of lake monsters, but we can't resist commenting on the recent
'expedition' into the guts of the Irish countryside... the search
for the Lough Ree serpent.
Vol 3 Issues 1 - 11
(June 5th 1999 - November 2nd 2000)
the alan moore interview
November 2nd 2000:
Blather is proud to present a lengthy and in-depth interview with
this world-renowned comics writer. Born in Northampton, England,
in 1953, he was nothing short of seminal in the 1980s with Watchmen
and nothing less than monumental in the 1990s with From Hell. He
talks about his comics work in great detail, as well as his non-comics
writing, his CDs and his interest in the occult. Full of insights,
his conversation touches upon many other social and cultural subjects.
You can read this unexpurgated interview here on the site or you
can download it as a free text file.
time is just memory
mixed with desire
June 10th 2000:
Ireland and Echelon - who the talkers, and who are the listeners?
Bleddy UFOs - dubious tales of missing time in the suburbs of Belfast.
*de Selby: Eccentric Visonary or Crackpot?* by Will Jones. Hunter
S. Thompson's *Hell's Angels* reviewed. More Book reviews, including
Norman Cohn, *Noah's Flood - the Genesis Story in Western Thought*,
and John Lydon's *Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs*.
The State of Policing
May 20th 2000: 3rd Special Edition
Blather gets up on yet another high-horse of the recent shooting
of John Carthy in Co. Longford, by members of the Garda Emergency
Reponse Unit... what are police for? Are the police loosing touch,
choosing to guard us by remote control?
Teeth
May 10th 2000
'Sometime around lunchtime on February 18th, I was cowering in a
booth of some terrible cafe in Heathrow airport, with just three
miserable hours of fitful sleep under my belt, most of which was
spent sitting upright to keep any extra blood from pounding through
my jaw.'
- daev finally reports back from the disinfo.con. Doug Skinner does
the same from a ukelele convention, and Barry Kavanagh discovers
A Clock Work Orange by Anthony Burgess.
Pot Calling the Kettle
Black
March 31th 2000
On March 22nd, *The Irish Times* published two articles on the antics
of Mike Garde, Ireland's *Cult Watchdog*. In response, we issued
a letter of criticism to the paper's letters editor, which has yet
to appear in print. If there were any other critics of the cult
articles, their incensed reactions are also absent from the letters
page.
The Event
March 30th 2000
Material pertaining to the infamous Princess Diana death of August
1997 was recently recovered on a 'recovered' laptop by Blatherskites
Greg Barrett and Dave (daev) Walsh... A Blather special on the phenomenon
of bisociative coincidence.
Out of the Marvellous
February 13th 2000
Tempus Fugit, but we're back... this time with tales of time-travel,
ancient Irish UFOs, Yeats and Black Masses and much more weirdness...
Accidental Satanists
December 29th 1999
Blather publishes Dave Walsh's talk from Fortfest 1999.
Blather Doesn't Care
December 7th 1999
As we are mere weeks away from the end of the year, Blather would
like to make it known that *we don't care* about the (change of)
m*llennium.
We don't.
Ok?
However, we will discuss possible Irish meteorites, Wexford UFOs
and other malarkey...
Funny what you can find
near Bundoran...
October 6th 1999
Aliens in Jars from Sligo/Donegal, big cats roaming Belfast, and
'Black Rays' over Lough Neagh... Eamon Ansbro appears with a new
booklet, interesting videos of an alleged extraterrestrial, eh,
incursion into Dublin, and yet bleedin' more about Norwegian lake
monsters. Where will it all end?
the importance of being
an erne peist
August 31st 1999
The *Sunday People* of August 22nd provides us with the painful
headline 'O'Nessie Makes a Splash - Mystery monster has made an
Irish waterway its home!', along with a picture of the alleged peist
(gaelic; worm). It comes courtesy of reporter Stephen Maguire, who,
having laid hands on a photograph of it, breathlessly informs us
that 'this is the first picture of Ireland's own 'Loch Ness' monster'.
zen when? tao now!
July 27th 1999
With the Count O'Blather on hiatus, the surreal and melancholic
Barry Kavanagh finds himself ideally placed to take on the sinister
holiday role of agent-provocateur. Be amazed as BK pontificates
on Chinese Philosophy and the works of Raymond M. Smullyan...
epiphany weather
July 5th 1999
It's some months now since Blather last paid any direct attention
to the curious, if somewhat tiresome, phenomenon of Irish ufology
and reported UFOs. Truth be told, the respite was sorely needed.
Still, duty-bound we return to the fray, however grudgingly...
on the ghost bus
June 18th 1999
At 19:30 hours on the 25th of May, this Blatherskite ended a headlong
bicycle sprint across Dublin's humid inner city, arriving at O'Connell
St. with barely enough time to leap aboard the Dublin Ghost Bus
and wave his credentials, before the spectral vehicle lurched away
into the evening.
hell-fire francis
June 5th 1999
Blather takes the readership through 18th century claims of Satanic
politicians and into chalk tunnels in Buckingamshire, England...to
tell the tale of the English Hell-Fire Club of the 1750-60s
Vol 2 Issues 27-43 (Nov 1998-May 1999)
Vol 2 Issues 1-26 (May 1998-Nov 1998)
Vol 1 Issues 27-52 (Nov 1997-May 1998)
Vol 1 Issues 1-26 (May 1997-Nov 1997)
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