Decent short film – Lazy Teenage Superheroes

300 dollah to make – seriously impressive.

It can’t be! Bertie Ahern on Streetview

My favourite Streetview yet. Bertie out canvassing!!!

T-shirts – a mans best friend

T-shirts must be the most versatile garment out there. Foghorn reckons there are three distinct stages in your life for wearing T-shirts: when your young and they are a functional item of clothing for a prepubescent young man to wear to designate what team he is on or because society and his mother wont let him go topless for fear of public outrage or pneumonia (a disease often threatened but rarely contracted); when your a young(ish) adult and they are fashion/protest statements or advertising hoardings for the great corporations of this world; and when your old and infirm and they are again functional items for collecting drool and the like (but I think they call them hospital smocks then).

Foghorn likes his t-shirts and sports them year round no matter what the weather. Getting his grubby hands on a really good t-shirt brings a smile to his gob but the search can be long and hard to get a quality item. For example a you can spot a good t-shirt, skip along to the changing room and then when you get the thing on the material makes it look like you have bigger breasts than Jordan (Foghorn is a robust build after all). Then there is the type of t-shirt that has a crackin design on the front but some friggin winged beast on the back that makes it look like it was designed by a death metal fan.

In the attempt to turn the great search into an easier venture, Foghorn has turned to the internet. This has yielded mixed results a few great cheap buys have been mixed in with some shockers with the offending garments bearing no resemblance to the photo on the website.

Anywho here are a few decent websites Foghorn has had success with:

http://www.turtlehead.ie/stuffformen/

http://shop.supremebeing.com/menswear/t-shirts/

http://chunkclothing.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1

http://shop.counterpropaganda.ie/category/101

Just don’t blame me if dark green turns out to be teal.

The Eastern Algarve

I spent a few childhood holidays in the algarve.. (the west algarve). We never even thought of going east when going on holiday… suppose the west was where everyone went and still is to a degree. It was always to the west and the beautiful beaches with the giant over hanging red cliffs and touristy resorts …

Having only discovered the existence of the city of tavira and the eastern algarve in the last 5 years I have to say I wish I had found it sooner..
Only 2.5 hours to faro and lots of cheap flights..its very accessible for a few weeks holiday or a long weekend..

Google Streetview

Loving some of the photos that are appearing on the web from Streetview. Now, Dastardley has woken up in some strange places in his time but this beats even him hands down…(credit to Das Bild)

4×4 road trip – San Pedro de Atacama (Chile) to Uyuni (Bolivia)

San Pedro de Atacama (San Pedro) is a small village located in one of the many oases which are founded in the altiplano of the second region of Chile. Along this geographic zone rise some of the highest volcanoes of the Los Andes cordillera. Formerly the centre of the Atacama culture, today San Pedro’s population is about 2.500. Nowadays this small town has a big importance because it is considered as the archaeological capital of Chile and also because of its extreme geographic position , the beauty of the landscape and its eternal blue sky. Atacama is the driest desert in the world and rain is about as common as a frosty morning in Kenya. Parts of the desert, inland from the coast have never had recorded rainfall.
This was our launching point for our trip to the salt flats in Bolivia.

Irish High Crosses Exhibition, Collin’s Barracks

For some reason Foghorn likes an aul Irish Cross but he aint sure why. Lets face it, they aint that pretty with one depiction barely discernible from another, they aint that functional (you wont be nailing anybody to one too handy anyway) and they are probably a little heavy/big for around the neck, open shirt, medallion festooned types.

“The Wire” Monopoly

ye’d just have to..

see The Poke for more.

Thoughts on This is England 86

Some English people yesterday, in 1986

So the mini-series has ended and I caught the final episode last night thanks to the wonderment that is Sky Plus (does anyone else say they’re going to tape something when they use Sky Plus?) and I thought I’d write a couple of words on it.

To be honest though, I don’t really know what to make of it. I loved the film This is England so I had a lot of affection for the more likeable characters Shane Meadows had created before sitting down to watch it. In the film, set three years earlier, we see the world of the skinheads through the eyes of 12 year old Shaun. Shaun has recently lost his father, who died in the Falklands War, and is adrift from his schoolmates. He is taken under the wing of Woody and his gang of skins where he starts to feel accepted but it’s with the arrival of Combo that Shaun finds a father figure. Combo has just been released from a prison sentence but instead of being the same apolitical skin he had been when he left, he now is an advocate of English nationalism.  The film reaches a heart stopping climax with Combo and Milky, the only black skinhead in the film, and the eventual rejection by Shaun of Combo and his ideals.

The Daily “Want”

What is it? A Tetris sofa

Pure genius, created by Stefano Grasselli, it gives the excuse we’ve been waiting for to “make forts” in the living room again.

See here for more.

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