When dry witted Irishman, acquired taste hobbiest humourist, socially awkward practically unheard-of legally blind cat obsessed underachiever and husband Neal O’Carroll ingests* a

perfectly ordinary consumer-grade generic energy drink, something happens.

There emerges a silver-tongued* purveyor of comical monologues, absurd analogies, illogical yet impressively argued opinions and copious Two Cats walk into a Bar stories.

Each segment starts with no idea how the first sentence will end or what topics may emerge. It’s a ludicrious creative non-method inspired partly by classic BBC panel show Just a Minute, praticed and honed over eighteen years and 800 episodes.

Yet here we are, in 2024, trying to retro-actively construct a narrative around it, like it’s the label for a micro-brewary beverage. Not to mention referring to ourselves in both the third person singular and the first person plural.
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A short nerdy OCD history of the old NewsBurp

My old NewsBurp site started in late 2003 as The I Make WebPages When there’s Nothing on TV Site. NewsBurp was a nerdy daily nonsense humour blog which later became Neal’s Belch. The site first became NewsBurp.com in early 2004.

There was a terrible stick figure comic called Matchstick Meditations that evolved into Matchstick Cats, which I’ve sinse rebooted and inverted to make more accessible to me and others with Retinitis Pigmentosa and similar vision impairments. More here.

Among other things there was series of comedy lectures called The Newsburp University covered topics as diverse as How to Play the Banjo and How to Kill Two Birds with One Stone.

For a while the site rebranded as MatchstickCats.com and had a small rota of weekly columnists. Then it became NewsBurp again and revolved around my nonsense writings and comics until podcasting came along.

Into Your Head podcast started at NewsBurp.com in 2006, and was originally, for a very short time, called The News Burp Podcast. It’s still going at IntoYourHead.ie, having returned in 2023 after a seven year retirement that didn’t stick.

Anyway, hello. Come over to IntoYourHead.ie for all of my stuff, old and new, and get the free podcast here.

Neal from the original NewsBurp.