<a href="http://www.blather.net/blather/2008/04/a_load_of_blather_book.html" target="_blank" title="load_of_blather_500.gif"><img src="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/load_of_blather_500.gif" alt="load_of_blather_500.gif" align="left" border="0" height="344" hspace="8" vspace="8" width="216" /></a>Long time SA pals the <a href="http://www.blather.net" target="_blank">Blather</a> gang have their first book, <a href="http://www.blather.net/blather/2008/04/a_load_of_blather_book.html" target="_blank"><em>A Load of Blather</em></a>, out any time now. A list of our various misadventures would occupy at least another book, if not a long running TV series – but I think it's safe to assume that this will be a blast. And there's a bomb on the cover.

From the blatherskites themselves:
<blockquote><em>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”. </em></blockquote>
<em>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. There's even a bit about talking cows in there. If the lawyers haven't cut it out.Look no further - this is Blather.</em>

You can buy it direct from <em><a href="http://www.blather.net/blather/2008/04/a_load_of_blather_book.html" target="_blank">Blather</a></em> – the smart option if you want to support the authors – or via the usual suspects.