I must have missed an announcement – a bit over a month ago Flutey said ta-ta to blogging (Ozblogistan mourned), but he’s been sneakily posting things for more than a week! Anyway, he live-blogged the cheesilicious Eurovision Song Contest, which… Read More ›
Year: 2006
Curious
we just tuned into Auntie to watch the David Wenham (obPhwoah!) minseries Answered by Fire, set in East Timor in the days leading up to the 1999 referendum on independence from Indonesia. But it’s not on, despite having been advertised… Read More ›
Who moved that apostrophe?
I’m a week late, I know, but Helen’s Mother’s Day piece got me thinking. How did a day that grew from West Virginian Mothers’ Work Days from 1858 onwards (where mothers worked together to improve their community), and Mothers’ Friendship… Read More ›
Save Nazanin
Spread the word about international support for the 18-year old Iranian girl Nazanin Mahabad Fatehi, who has been sentenced to death by hanging. In previous cases international activism and publicity has saved the lives of other Iranians sentenced to death… Read More ›
You want affordable energy, doncha?
CO2: We Call it Life That’s the slogan for an ad campaign funded by the Competitive Enterprise Institute in the US. As in “they call it pollution, we call it life”. “Your support will help us continue our fight against… Read More ›
Egritte? Mascher?
This is apparently by an artist named Rob Gonsalves. A whole heap of his art has been posted here. Beautiful stuff. Hat-tip to Simon the Hat.
Poetry for Insomniacs – Dorothy Parker
The Lady’s Reward Lady, lady, never startConversation toward your heart;Keep your pretty words serene;Never murmur what you mean.Show yourself, by word and look,Swift and shallow as a brook. Be as cool and quick to goAs a drop of April snow;Be… Read More ›
Friday Random Ten – the bookshelf meme edition
Buggered if I can find a theme in this week’s selection. The Weeping Song -Nick Cave & The Bad SeedsTamburitza Lingua – Ani DiFrancoBetter Than Anything -Tuck & PattiA Walk in the Light Green (I Was Only 19) – RedgumThe… Read More ›
Noms de blog and gender-spectrum etiquette
Yesterday I rang up Sydney ABC talk-radio (that’s our national public radio for the foreign readers), as I do once or twice a month when I’m on my way to pick up the kids from school (using the hands-free, and… Read More ›
Recommended Reading
I’ve been busy catching up on some favorite blogs the last few days: Larvatus Prodeo has long discussion threads Discrimination and Same-Sex Marriage, the growing “pro-life” activism in the USA against the provision of contraception (Pro-choice, pro-sex? Who’s afraid of… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 