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E. M. Esq.: The Life & Times of a Hypothetical Dead Man
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E. M. Esq. is curated by Colm O'Brien, a an Irish writer living and working in Dublin. Features fiction and non-fiction with a satirical bent.
- Author: Colm O'Brien
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Stupid thick, luxuriant hair
Hair: I have a lot of it. I mean, just a ludicrous amount. I remember going for a trim as a child and coming out an hour later, the hairdresser sweating buckets, muttering to herself about rainforests and staring into the middle distance.1 I leave a ...
On the metaphysics of customer service
Got a text message from NTL there. Oh hey NTL, haven’t heard from you in a while! What’s happenin’, bro? In Regards to a recent Termination – Cancellation on your Chorus/NTL account please be advised that despite numinous atte...
New adventures in marketing
While in the bookshop yesterday I happened across a book, the name of which eludes me, which nevertheless stuck in my mind because the front cover loudly hailed it as THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOK ABOUT EVOLUTION SINCE DAWKINS’ SELFISH GENE.1 You’ll no...
Scenes from Cork
Somewhere in Cork, right now, there is a man with 2.6 gigabytes of Van Halen on his laptop. Did Van Halen even record 2.6 gigabytes of material? Who knows! This man has it anyway....
The depoxening
Those of you who checked back here over the past while (cheers, incidentally) will have noticed there was some villainy afoot1. Firstly, to get the ringing-my-exes bit out of the way: scary warning notwithstanding, the site has been clean since 31 Ju...
One bottle of Prosecco later
Writes L in Belfast: If you could live in any century, what century would that be?...
