May 30th 2009 by Gareth Stack in Original Comedy
[This is a sequel to the Diary of a Dublin Sex Man column, run in Piranha 2008. You can check the first column out here]. Monday 10 PM Got a voice mail from the Rotunda. Letting me go- something about the bad publicity. Fuming!. Caught half an episode of Coupling on UK Gold. Three stars, [...]
May 29th 2009 by Gareth Stack in Web Of Darkness
Coilhouse Magazine have linked to a fascinating documentary about gay Nazi’s – the German subculture of far right homosexual men. The dichotomy between the repressive politics these men subscribe to (and in many cases fetishize) is a fascinating one. Psychologist George Lakoff writes about how frames, or world views rooted in models of the family [...]
May 28th 2009 by Gareth Stack in Original Comedy
Like most folks who spent even a tenth of a second considering their post college job prospects, Marshmallow Ladyboy Jesus has never read a Victorian novel. He’s always meant to of course. He’s seen the film of Oliver Twist, and some of the better Jane Brontë period dramas on BBC 2. He quite enjoys the [...]
May 27th 2009 by Gareth Stack in Original Comedy
Given that many of our staff and readers will doubtless be serving lengthy prison terms in the near future, for non payment of 100 thousand euro blasphemy fines, this week Marshmallow Ladyboy Jesus thought it best to address the problems of those members of his infinite congregation serving, or preparing soon to serve at his [...]
May 26th 2009 by Gareth Stack in Commentary
So, you’ve been dating your insignificant other for a few months, somebody’s birthday’s approaching and anal is on the table. What do you mean it’s a one night thing and she’s up for it? Anal sex is not to be trifled with. Done right it can be sublime and incredibly intense for both parties. Unfortunately [...]
May 26th 2009 by Gareth Stack in Original Comedy
O’Irish talk show host Ryan Tubridy has begun a campaign to end a centuries-old practice known as the ‘cutting of the rose’. The procedure – still performed today across North Africa and parts of the Middle East – involves carefully safeguarding a little girl’s chastity for her husband, and has few if any known side [...]
May 26th 2009 by Gareth Stack in Original Comedy
Photo by Danny McL , Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic Literally millions of children are killed or mortally wounded on Ireland’s roads each year. Often, in a tragic twist of irony, by those who were once children themselves. A new report by the Irish Society of the Prevention of Death, Cruelty and Other Such Misfortunes; [...]
May 26th 2009 by Gareth Stack in Original Comedy
* Experience the 3D thrill ride of a life time ‘from farm to market’ – gasp as state of the art misters douse you in meaty juices – an unforgettable meatsperience * Try your luck at our carnival games – lamb to the slaughter – can you bolt the brain first time? – pig snout [...]
May 26th 2009 by Gareth Stack in Original Comedy
Also Out This season!!! The aeroplane is cramped, foul smelling and your still aching from the cavity search. But none of that matters, because you’re reading the stunning new book about growing up unloved. Ben’s latest autobiography – ‘They broke me in the cellar’, is out now. Critics are calling it ‘an unprecedented journey into [...]
May 26th 2009 by Gareth Stack in Original Comedy
Just in time for Christmas comes Cecelia Aherns brilliant new Romantic comedy, ‘Who’s your Daddy’, the sequel to her acclaimed story, ‘Got Here Through Her Own Skill and Talent.’ Sorcha is bubbly, brainy and beautiful, but keeps meeting pathetic men without degrees in medicine or law. Until that is, she meets Fintin, a mysterious stranger [...]