Yesterday, for the last day of hols before going back to Term 3 of school, mr tog and I took the kids to see Click (the togster particularly had been very taken by the premise when he saw the trailer… Read More ›
Year: 2006
Raising boys without fathers
A piece provocatively titled “Do boys need fathers? This woman says no” was published in The Observer over the weekend, a profile of the work of American psychologist Peggy Drexler on fatherless families. Drexler has engaged in a longitudinal study… Read More ›
I nearly ran over a pedestrian today
Do you think a judge would be sympathetic to my explanation that I was trying to work out whether the hunkaspunk talking on his cellphone while standing at the lights was indeed Hugh Jackman? We weren’t too far from the… Read More ›
New Zealand channels Dame Edith Evans
Handbags? Handbags!?! Some Kiwis (I blow my nose at you) think that the traditional (your father smelt of elderberries) pre-Bedisloe Cup match taunting (we’ve already got one) has maybe gone a bit far this year, as Channel 7’s ad for… Read More ›
Kim Jong Il has many screws loose
and his brainwashed subjects would undoubtedly be better off in the long term if his regime were overthrown. But I nonetheless want to applaud him giving the one-fingered salute to Washington with today’s missile test launches. I wish I didn’t… Read More ›
The “Joke” of Sexual Harassment
Everybody’s talking about the Big Brother incident that led to Jon and Ash getting evicted for “breaking Big Brother’s Rules” – where she was held down by Jon while Ash rubbed his penis in her face. Initial claims of a… Read More ›
But a doctor wrote it! It must be true!
Ever heard of “Disenfranchised Father Syndrome“? No? How about “Divorce Related Malicious Mother Syndrome“? Me neither, but to a lot of men, particularly in the USA, the conditions are believed to be real, including one I had heard of –… Read More ›
They did what?
Thus far my blog has been a BB free zone, but WTF? John and Ashley were evicted for doing what? For any two men to do that anywhere is offensive, but how stupid do you have to be to do… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 