The Quasi-Mojo Monkey

A confessional site by Buckley that's named after a monkey - because life doesn't make as much sense as we pretend it does. Meet me, my monkey-friend, and hear all about our hyped-up but pleasantly eventful friendship.

Monday, February 05, 2007

Shankill Butchers

I was at a gig by The Decemberists last Saturday night in Vicar Street. For those of you who may not know The Decemberists, they are an Ame...

Friday, February 02, 2007

You probably think you know enough english to express yourself...

... but as a personal favour, I would appreciate it if you were describing a thump or a clatter to use the word "pergaddus". Cheer...

Thursday, February 01, 2007

Two Snerts

Man: It says on the menu that they have "snert." What do you reckon that is? Woman: I've no idea, was that what the receptioni...

Sunday, February 26, 2006

Love an Orange Bastard

The "Love Ulster March" eh? Why wouldn't ya love Ulster? It's great. I went to Donegal on holiday once. Loved it. Had I kn...

Thursday, February 16, 2006

Bustop Bust-op

Something has to be said. Everyone is thinking it. And everyone thinks it's in their own head and is trying to tell themselves that it h...

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Happy Feckin Valentine's Day

From Buckley and Quasi-Mojo

Wednesday, February 01, 2006

The reason I like this poem

The reason I like the following poem is that it strikes me as the kind of thing that a person at the kind of dinner-party I wish I were invi...

Tuesday, January 31, 2006

When I look back on it now...

I honestly can't remember a single reason why I thought he looked better without the beard:

Monday, January 30, 2006

"Stuck to You (The Science Song)" by Josh Ritter

Here's a cute and clever little song which I had the great pleasure of hearing live once, but unforgivably and embarrassingly could not ...

Thursday, January 26, 2006

Metro Metro Man

I will probably never be a metrosexual. And don't get me wrong, I will continue to aspire in small and ineffectual ways as I have always...

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Too Long A Sacrifice

I have written at least twice before ( here & in more detail: here ) on the type of evening where everything starts off very tame and c...

Thursday, January 12, 2006

Googley Wonkology

I'm a big fan of the film "Charlie and Chocolate Factory". In the earlier version there are many great scenes, one of which in...

Predictably Unrefined Thoughts on NYRs

Every year a lot of talk goes around about New Year's Resolutions. Personally, I 've always felt that NYRs are philosophically unsat...

Thursday, January 05, 2006

New Year, New Post

This blog is so rubbish these days, I'm left with two options: either delete the whole thing completely (the sad fate of the impulsively...

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Blog in progress

So given my current inability to report any of the staggeringly interesting things that are happening in my life at the moment, for fear tha...

Thursday, October 27, 2005

Speaking of Death...

Hey Kids, So as I mentioned in my previous and brief entry, I've been pretty busy. To bring you all up to speed, for the month of Septem...

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Inadequate Apology

Unfortunately the closest words to 'blog' that have been occupying my mind of late have been 'slog' and 'grog'. I...

Saturday, July 16, 2005

Spontaneous Nocturnal Biblical Criticism

I often have peculiar thoughts just before I go to bed, and when they are not sexual, it's not unusual for them to be biblical. It occur...

Wednesday, July 13, 2005

My Secret Protégés

I don’t have any younger siblings so there is no-one I can truly say I’ve watched grow up, but I have a few younger cousins whose births I r...

Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Some reflections on the bombings in London

It seems like there is no good way to describe a terrorist attack. We seem to self-consciously fail to find the appropriate words. We talk a...

Monday, June 27, 2005

Corpus Christi "May" Ball 2005

Corpus By Night: Diarmuid has been such a legend as the catalyst to my having some ecstatically enjoyable weekends in Cambridge over the pa...

Friday, June 17, 2005

The All-Nighter

While some of the greatest minds of our time continue their endeavours to understand the punch-line of the nacho cheese joke, and while othe...

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Putting the "Party" in "Dinner"

I fear the following blog may come at a bad time, as I am currently riding out (no pun intended) some scurrilous rumours about my sexual pre...

Wednesday, June 08, 2005

M Ward: All Mouth.

I came home after a day of relentless toiling at the "gaol" (old English spelling of "prison," pronounced the same way) ...

Saturday, June 04, 2005

Sorry I'm Late

Ok, so we're sneaking up on a month now since I last posted anything, and I realise that in the blog-world this essentially means that I...

Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Nothing to see here folks

Well, nothing except the old stuff: which is many ways timeless, but in many more ways just plain old 'old.' It's unlikely that ...

Tuesday, May 03, 2005

Hair-D'oh: A Personal History

Apart from my first hairdresser, Larry, I've always had bad luck with hair dressers and through an inter-relating and dynamic combinatio...

Sunday, April 24, 2005

On Loving Your Monkey

I haven't been talking very much lately about Quasi-Mojo (indeed given that the site was named after him, I've really given him a pr...

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