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Me Book! A Load of Blather
 Ok, so it’s not photography – but I’ve finally managed to get a book out, along with some of my co-freaks at blather.net:
“Eleven years, three convictions, two deportations, ten thousand pints, six barring orders and a legion of leather-clad groupies later, Dave Walsh, Barry Kavanagh and Damien DeBarra (the cheap tarts that brought you Blather.net) bring you their latest labour of love: A Load of Blather: Unreal Reports from Ireland and Beyond, the first book that anyone has been nuts enough to let them publish. Shamelessly re-working articles which have been online for years anyway, this magnificent tome is a veritable smorgasboard of smut; bursting out of its trousers with a great heaving cavalcade of paranormal events, superstitions, mysterious happenings, conspiracy theories, hordes of rampaging kangaroos in the Dublin hills, and the previously untold story of General Michael Collins’ forays into outer space. There’s even a bit about talking cows in there. If the lawyers haven’t cut it out. There’s guest articles too, from the likes of Sue Walsh, Oliver Bayliss and Dr. Stewart Roberts.”
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Mon Apr 21 10:16:36 UTC 2008
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May 12, 2007 00:00
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More:
“When blather.net was spawned back in 1997, Dave Walsh, Damien DeBarra and Barry Kavanagh exhumed the lofty manifesto of the original Blather, founded in 1934 by Flann O’Brien. It would also be a “publication of the gutter” achieving “entirely new levels in everything which is contemptible, despicable and unspeakable in contemporary journalism”. Blather.net would have no principles, no honour, no shame. It would support the “fostering of graft and corruption in public life”, the “encouragement of humbug and hysteria”, and the “glorification of greed and gombeenism”. ”
“Over ten years later comes A Load of Blather, gathering together the best of the best reports on paranormal events, superstitions, mysterious happenings, conspiracy theories, the hordes of rampaging kangaroos in the Dublin hills, and the previously untold story of General Michael Collins’ forays into outer space. Look no further – this is Blather.”
Chapter list:
Introduction: Blather Doesn’t Care
Unidentified Feckin’ Objects
Slow Walking Banned in Dublin
Lepreporn
Angry Dreams
There are No Kangaroos in Austria
Fear and Loathing in Telemark
The Tomb of God
Lucy Dell
F*cking Magic
Wyrd!
The Blather Guide to Easter
The Dalkey Baby and the House of Horrors
Cannonballs from the Sky
Mayday!
Norway’s Psychic Princess
The 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
Superstitions of Christmas
The Anthropology of Roads
Clontarf-Based Science Team Find ‘the Clitoris’
Ancient Irish Astronauts
Most of the Internet is about Bobby Darin
IRA Announces Massive Redundancies
That Whole Father Pat Noise Phenomenon on Dublin’s O’Connell Bridge
The Taoist Problem Page
Entire Irish Nation Gathers on Beach to Futilely Shake Fists at Sellafield
Irishwoman Deafened by Ticking of her own Biological Clock
How to Fly a Building
Ireland’s Greatest Wits
Epilogue: Thundering Myeloma
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Huge congratulations, Mr. Walsh. I’m positively giddy with excitement. I’ll be getting a copy soon as. Well done. AND ABOUT BLOODY TIME TOO!
Your wit knows no bounds.
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Where do I get a copy?
Sounds just like my cup-o-tea!
Congratulations Dave Walsh- nuttin’ like a liddle bit o’Irish blather!
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Yeah where do I sign up? I want to see if any of my fellow-abductees have broken their vow of silence yet .... umm, oops…
Tobie
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You can pre-order copies here »
Basically, we get a higher cut if we sell them ourselves (although it’ll be on Amazon etc.) First print run is almost sold out from bookshop orders alone, so we’re doing pre-orders now on the web so that we can gauge the demand. We’ll be posting out the books mid-may
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Well, at least I’m color-coordinated.
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Yay!
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Well, we had the official launch on Thursday night. Here’s the writeup, with photographs by Lightstalker Kim Haughton!
more here…
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