Hoyden about Town

This Guardian article is a few weeks old, but I’ve only just caught up with it. Feminist blogs are booming. But are they globalising emancipation – or just playthings for the rich and well educated? Gendergeek acknowledges that feminist bloggers are privileged: It can’t be denied [...]that the power structures evident in the ‘real world’ [...]

Mr Tog is watching some Kiwis thrash some Sandgropers. I don’t watch most matches, I only watch matches that Lote plays in, because his legs and his grin are gorgeous. Rugby in my experience is greatly enhanced by superb tiger prawns accompanied by a Barossa Valley Chardonnay Pinot Gris. Having a house full of chocolate [...]

Elizabeth: The Golden Age “begins filming in April 2006 in the UK” apparently. I hope it lives up to the first film, which is an all-time fave of mine despite the glaring historical inaccuracies (does anyone know of a site that’s actually counted up the anachronisms?). Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush return as ER and [...]

You just know there’s dwarves buried under her patio, don’t you? What was the wardrobe department at Ten thinking? Watch out for warty old ladies with apples, Sandra. And in my defence, I was only watching Ten because Ross Noble was on Rove, so we braved the barrage of ads. When we saw the promos [...]

Seen while driving home from dropping off the togster to his school band practise: an adorably dressed preschool girl holding her nana’s hand while waiting at the pedestrian crossing signals. She couldn’t just stand there, so she was jumping and dancing on the spot. BOING! BOING! BOING! BOING! shimmy-wiggle bump-left bump-right BOINGBOINGBOING! From the body [...]

Not to swim, though. Just to look at the big, huge swell that came around Sydney beaches due to a concentrated low pressure zone further south. And at the mad bastards out riding it. SMH Photo: Dallas Kilponen A photo gallery of yesterday’s big waves Related posts: Well, I’m glad someone was out with their [...]