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Cal McGhee is a writer, director and HeadStuff.org contributor from Dublin. He completed both a BA in Journalism and an MA in Film & Television at DCU. He has bounced between both media worlds as a journalist and production assistant ever since. He recently became an author with his debut novel ‘Rotten Apples’ and his first short film is also due for release this year. When not writing novels and screenplays, he’s usually found watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer or ranting on Twitter. You can find him here: @cal_mcghee

Literature

Theatre Review | The Boys In The Band

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Smokey jazz music welcomes you to 1968 Manhattan so vividly that you reach for a phantom cigarette to follow a non-existent sip of a martini. To intensify your desire for a drink, there’s a fully stocked bar adjacent to the front door of a…
Humour

My Furby Was Possessed by a Japanese Ghost

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It was 1998 I believe. I was five years old and very much into my theatrical and overdramatic phase as a result of watching far too many Disney movies. B*Witched were in the charts and life as a senior infant was good. For some reason, the…
Humour

Broken Bicycle Blues

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I no longer fear hell, because I have just experienced worse. I have documented the journey, as you will see below. While cycling in the torrential rain down Harold's Cross Road, soaked and blinded as the droplets fire against my glasses…