The Slate Mag

alannologo

Does anyone remember a free magazine that was around about 4 or 5 years ago called The Slate I have 1 or 2 issues but am looking for a way to get anymore as they were brilliantly put together and was discontinued because of the distasteful content.

yevveh

I have a few of them somewhere. Don't know any way to get them, I hope someone was wise enough to have a complete collection so they could scan it and get it all online for the rest of us

alannologo

very true i reckon the editor would have to have them in some format and i would love to have them they were the best read every month and for free

Kold

The Slate was awesome.

Blisterman

The writers of the Slate do a weekly E newsletter called "My Little Piebald"
Just email Subscribe to mylittlepiebald@gmail.com

Here's Last weeks one, for those interested:

:: T&A FEST HITS TOWN :::

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling comes to the
National Stadium tomorrow night, and the TNA
website carries some great interviews with the
wrestlers involved. The male athletes are a
surprisingly reflective bunch. Jeff Jarrett speaks of
his desire for world peace, and says: "I hope Obama
brings us in the right direction. Why can't we all just
get along?" Sanjay Dutt (The Guru) talks about his
degree in communications. Eric Young explains his
love of acting. And trombone-playing Consequences
Creed ("Prepare to face the consequences") says
that, if he wasn't a wrestler, "I would be working with
autistic children".

Then there are the female wrestlers - a beacon for
liberated women around the globe:

* Traci Brooks is shown caressing her large
fake breasts, wiggling her arse and trying
to reverse a tractor.

* The Beautiful People are: "Cleansing the
World. One Ugly person at a time."

* Another female contender, ODB, swigs from
a hipflask throughout her 'webography'
interview, announcing that the 'most
important thing in life is these things, yeah,'
as she grabs her knockers. Like all top level
athletes ODB likes to hit the ring with a drink
in her hand.

Go girls.

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::: SIGN 'O' THE TIMES :::

People will do anything for a few quid these days.
One of our eagle-eyed readers spotted this sign
in Ashbourne, Co. Meath recently

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::: COOKERY CORNER :::

A Crack Cocaine Conference is taking place in Croke Park
next Wednesday. For those unable to attend, My Little
Piebald is happy to explain how to make crack in the
comfort of your own home. It's surprisingly straightforward!

Ingredients and Equipment Apart from the cocaine, you
can find everything you need in your kitchen, or just buy it in
Tesco:

- Some measuring spoons.
- Bottled water.
- Baking soda or Shamrock Bread soda. Quote
from the shamrock foods website: "as you will
see with the bread soda, they have some use
other than baking!"
- A beaker or a glass.
- A saucepan.
- Some ****ty Dublin coke.

Directions:

1. Measure out a teaspoon of cocaine into a beaker.

2. Add half a teaspoon of baking soda to the coke.

3. Add enough water to dissolve this mixture. You
should notice a fizzing now as the sodium bicarbonate
in the baking soda reacts with the cocaine.

4. Place the beaker into a saucepan of almost boiling
water.

5. After heating for a while the mixture starts to
bubble and separate into a watery substance with a
precipitate floating on top.

6. What's going on here is that the cocaine
hydrochloride (regular street coke) is being broken
down. The baking soda, a base, reacts with the acidic
hydrochloride, removing it from the coke. What floats
to the top is a purified form of base cocaine. Nobody
knows what happens the rat poison, caster sugar and
anabolic steroids found in most Dublin coke.

7. When it has separated completely, there should be
bits of solid white-ish stuff floating on the top. Place
these rocks on a few sheets of kitchen paper or a tea
towel to drain them.

9. Then pop them into the freezer for fifteen or
twenty minutes.

10. Well done - you have made crack cocaine.

Next week: How to smoke crack and sell it to your
nieces and nephews.

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::: WHICH IS MORE EMBARRASSING?:::

A) Bono's article about "Gaelic revelry" in the New
York Times, or

This

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::: OPPORTUNITY OF THE WEEK :::

Desperate for some work? Maybe you could become
a "PA/ Life Organizer" for this "busy media lady" in
Foxrock. Play your cards right and you might find
yourself "running errands", "picking out clothes", and
"writing to do lists".

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::: RANDOM UPCOMING EVENTS :::

The benefits of going on a reality TV programme will be
there for all to see when I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of
Here contestant Nicola McLean puts in an appearance at
Charlestown Shopping Centre in Finglas tomorrow...Also
tomorrow, Boy George is to be sentenced for tying a male
escort to a radiator. He ain't looking pretty...And it's all
downhill on the optimism front from Tuesday once Barack
Obama is sworn in...

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::: CORRECTION :::

We got a mail from Gary, claiming that MLP hates to
let "the facts get in the way of a good story." Not true
of course. However, it seems we made a mistake in
last week's Coolio article. Gary has kindly furnished
us with a more accurate version of the nutjob rapper's
appearance on Open House. "It's true Coolio had no
backing dancers etc. with him on the day. But Open
House was not a show that had a studio audience.
The people pressed into service to support Coolio on
air were the programme's research team, average
age 26 1/2." Apologies Coolio.

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::: SIGN UP FOR THE SAVE SANDYMOUNT CAMPAIGN :::

Dear local resident,

Dublin City Council are holding an open day on Saturday
to discuss the proposed Poolbeg incinerator. This
monstrosity could destroy our lovely village, and it is crucial
that you go along and tell the authorities to move it to a poorer
part of Dublin. These are the key points that need to be made:

* Pubs like Ryan's, Mulligan's and O'Reilly's
are full of just the right sort of person -
overweight red-cheeked men who talk
ignorantly about rugby; and stressed out-
looking mothers in puffa jackets trying to
sneak ahead of each other on the school
waiting list. What will happen if a load of
truckers and binmen start just dropping in
whenever they feel like it?

* Sandymount Strand at the weekend is a
treasure drove of exotic dogs: You'll find
locals walking ****zus, Mi-kis, Mexican
Hairless Dogs, and various other breeds who
wouldn't win a fight with a hamster. This
collection of delicate beasts will be killed
stone dead if their little lungs are suddenly
filled with fumes from an incinerator. The
only solution is to move it to somewhere on
the Northside where mongrels, Jack Russells
and baby-eating Pitbulls are the order of
the day.

* What about all of the more appropriate uses
that the Poolbeg peninsula could be put to?
It could be transformed into a gigantic yogic
birthing centre, an outdoor cinema showing
foreign language films, or a multi-cultural
nature reserve, where Sandymounters can go
and observe foreign nationals who can't
afford to live in our area.

Remember, Sandymount's air of mystique has
been preserved for years by anti-outsider
devices such as a maze-like system of roads
and bus routes that don't go anywhere. Let's
cling to our heritage this Saturday.

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+++++++++++ G O I N G O U T T H I S W E E K +++++++++++
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TODAY
We Have Band, Crawdaddy. Wilfully
primitive electronic rock from London that's
charming enough in small doses.

TOMORROW
Billy Childish, Whelans. This strange,
moustachio'd character has been spewing
out albums since the late 70s, along with
painting, poetry and novels, but all anyone
knows him for is being Tracey Emin's
ex-boyfriend.

SATURDAY
The Glimmers, The Button Factory. Often
thought of as a poor cousin to fellow Belgians
Soulwax, they generally play far darker,
varied and more interesting DJ sets, which is
probably why Dublin is seeing less and less
of them in recent years.

SUNDAY
Arlo Guthrie, Whelans.

MONDAY
Staind, The Academy. Tattoo-and-hair
metal in the horrible mould of Limp Bizkit.

TUESDAY
You'd be better off Staind at home as
there's nothing on.

WEDNESDAY
New Kids On The Block, The O2. Left it
at least four years too late to reform and are
lethargically drudging through this tour trying
to do as little singing and dancing onstage as
possible.

Dick Gaughan, Whelans. Scottish folk relic
belting out thigh slapping sea shanties. Good
if you want to feel 150 years older than you
already do.


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::: ROAD RECORDS RIP :::

The sad demise of Road Records on
Fade St means that there are now even
fewer good independent music shops in
Dublin. The guys who ran it put up an
interesting post about why they had to
close.


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stovelid

I get the MLP mail out too. The acerbic gig guide is the funniest part.

OP - I think there was a thread on The Sate elsewhere on boards Perhaps Dublin City?

Edit: found it: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055383706&highlight=sLATE

tony 2 tone

Scans of 5 issues here

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>SLATE

alannologo

Tony your a legend im on a 3 - 11 shift and i know how its gonna be spent now!!