Sexism-free literature is “propaganda”.
Sexism-free literature is “propaganda”, by its very nature. Or so Andrew Riemer, Herald book critic, firmly believes, as quoted by the SMH. According to the ABC, John Hinde has bequeathed a new literary prize, one of Australia’s richest. The prize is to honour his wife, Barbara Jefferis, feminist author, hoyden, and the first female president [...]
She had a fondness for gardenias
A friend of a friend (FOAF) really wants to know the source for this quote. (Actually, sie only knew the first sentence as per the title above and the rest has been scoured from the Internets by other FOAFs). “She had a fondness for gardenias. Like a favorite private memory, they made her happy. She’d [...]
Setting low bars
There’s SF in blogtopia’s air lately, it seems. Whee! says my internal geek-meter. PZ Myers of Pharyngula has put up a list he found via tikistitch of the “Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years” . The most recent book on the list is the first Harry Potter novel, and quite [...]
Midweek musings: The Rule
Firstly, regarding those who still argue about “staying the course” in Iraq: image from despair.com (check out their cluelessness poster) Secondly, I’ve been thinking about applying the Mo Movie Measure Bechdel-Wallace Rule to reorganising my SF collection, giving pride of place to those novels which pass it and relegating the rest to the less convenient [...]
You’d flinch too
if Christopher Walken did all his scenes with you after eating three cloves of garlic every morning. This is how Walken manages to make his fellow actors so tense around him that on screen he appears to exude palpable menace, at least according to an anecdote related by Rupert Everett in a radio interview to [...]
FFS
Spare me. Michelle Malkin patting some hack on the back for doing a search and replace on a few paragraphs from the of a George Orwell essay, doing the usual strip-the-context bait and switch, as if he has made some profound intellectual point in comparing Orwell’s excoriation of the ineffectualness of the English left-wing intelligentsia [...]
Any search string that leads to Molly Ivins is a good search string
Sometimes following links that turn up in sitemeter is a joy rather than the usual ennui of seeing how many pervs are finding a link to this blog in a search engine. I like to think the pervs get a jolt when they don’t find what they expect, but maybe they get off on feminist [...]
One for the Janeites
Take the Quiz here! :: L I Z Z Y :: You are Elizabeth Bennet of Pride & Prejudice! You are intelligent, witty, and tremendously attractive. You have a good head on your shoulders, and oftentimes find yourself the lone beacon of reason in a sea of silliness. You take great pleasure in many things. [...]
Yesterday’s beach walk
My favourite shot of the morning – mum and bub were just having so much fun here (playing Harry by the Sea, where “Harry, a friendly little dog on a visit to the seashore, is mistaken for a sea serpent when a big wave covers him with seaweed”). Apparently this is the beach game that [...]
What I’m not reading, either
Tim Sterne put a loverly post up at Sarsaparilla a while ago about the stacks of unread reproaches surrounding him as he struggles through his days. I wot of what he wrote. The main unread reproach for me is Patrick White’s The Vivisector, which I have been attempting to read in conjunction with the Patrick [...]
Unca Tim, what’s a dystopia?
Has this Melburnian dilettante read Huxley’s novel and resents the quoted phrase below as a slur on hir beloved reality TV? Or does sie, as I suspect, hate reality TV and inadvertently revealed that sie hasn’t read the novel and doesn’t recognise the contextual meaning of the title phrase? Can anyone untangle these antecedents at all?
“the brave new world of reality TV”?!?
lordy”¦ someone get me a bucket, i think i’m going to hurl.
80′s music is one thing, i’m quite fond of a lot of it even when it’s second time round & really not quite as good as it was first time around. calling reality TV a “brave new world” is”¦ well”¦ words fail me.
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words words words
Words! Words! Words! I’m so sick of words!
I get words all day through;
First from him, now from you!
Is that all you blighters can do?
Pavlov’s Cat is feeling tetchy about certain words she’d like to ban, and presented us with an array of abused words and phrases, most of which, as she points out, were once vivid metaphor but now grown dull from overuse.
What a good idea!
Peeve of the week
I tried to ignore it, I really did. Does it really matter? said I. The people who don’t already know won’t care, and surely the rest of us Auntie-loving lefties will forgive them the odd howler.
In the end, I couldn’t let it go. So, I sent my letter to ABC complaints:
Please please please can the ABC promotion for the upcoming new season of the Midsomer Murders series stop calling Midsomer a village when it’s obviously a county!?!
Ook
This story was posted to a mailing list a few weeks ago – Online Dating for Orangutans- and provoked this response:
I like long shambles on the beach, quiet evenings in my cage, and hurling excrement. Height and weight proportionate. No gibbons, please.
I wonder how long it would take The Librarian to hook up.
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