Who the fuck is Paddy Garcia?

For the past four years (including a year-long hiatus) I have been writing a semi-regular column in a newspaper called Sin, based in NUIG, the National University of Ireland in Galway, Ireland. It started as a savage look into the life of a (somewhat) average Arts student and grew from there, it is now printed as ‘Diary of an arts graduate with Paddy Garcia’, since I’m no longer a student. I use this blog as a place to store the columns for reference and to share them with a wider audience. If it’s your first encounter with me, I suggest you start from the first column since there are over 20,000 words in the entire back catalogue. Start at the beginning or read the latest entry.

You can contact me by emailing:  diaryofpaddygarcia@gmail.com

 

Links to the diary entries:

1. “Think like a lesbian”

2. In the lap of the Disco Gods

3. Life after Arts

4. Exploring legal drugs and why Christmas trees are evil

5. Amsterdam; rum, sodomy and the hash

6. Breathless

7. Black Silk

8. Green eyed monster

9. Meditations on statutory rape, playstation and a cure for cancer

10. The search for René Descarte

11. Little black book

12. ‘Whiskey’, the beautiful game and the big bang

13. Halloween Monsters

14. Mending Walls

15. The upside to dystopia

16. Zen and the art of trolley maintenance

17. The Brothel

18. A trip to the dole office