Review: Radical Act
Radical Act, a documentary by Tex Clark, was filmed back in 1995 and is about the queer/feminist music scene in the USA at that time. The documentary is simple but endearing – Clark interviewed female musicians and music journalists about the impact of their sexual and gender identity on their work. And with the likes [...]
Otterday! And Open Thread.
How many times do I have to tell you, people? Don’t fuck with otters. They are VICIOUS LITTLE WEASELS. Awesome vicious little weasels – this is not an insult – but vicious little weasels.
Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.
Thursday Cheezburger: meta LOL
Today’s LOL theme is: meta LOL. Cheez about cheez! Self-referentiality: we can haz it!
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Ask Auntie Hoyden: get your dog outlines here, and other search engine queries
People ask search engines the damnedest things: what can we do except help out as best we can?
Top Ten Australian Songs
via Peta in comments ABC radio in Canberra has been asking listeners to nominate their top ten Australian songs. This is the list they came up with. 10. It’s Because I Love You (Masters’ Apprentices) 9. And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda (Eric Bogle) 8. The Real Thing (Russell Morris) 7. I Was Only 19 [...]
I had forgotten
…how tedious it is to remove all the old bits of icky ancient bluetack before one can even wash the bedroom wall, let alone paint it.
Otterday! And Open Thread.
Welcome to Saturday, and may the Victorian Hoydenizens have the election result you desire today. Among notable events on this day in history, Helen Clark became the first elected female PM in New Zealand, the first human-manufactured object reached the surface of Mars (the crashing Mars 2 descent module), the first extrasolar planetary atmosphere was [...]
Dear young person who was possibly looking after somebody else’s dogs
Dogs and small children should enter cars from the pavement/kerb side, not the busy road side.
Thursday Cheezburger: tasty treats
Today’s LOL theme is: tasty treats.
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Dissecting the trivial
Quick fact about women in the news: apparently, women feature in only about a fifth of the world’s news headlines and just ten percent of all news stories. (My guess is that if you took celebrities out of the media monitoring survey you could probably halve that number again for how often women make the news).
And when women finally make the news in what capacity do we make it?
Cyclists riding safely and legally, motorists driving less so
Drivers were at fault in 87 per cent of incidents with cyclists and most did not realise they had behaved in a reckless or unsafe manner,
Gratuitous Kid Bragging Thread
I am so proud of her for walking her own path here. What wonderful things have kids who you love been up to lately?



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