Magic Bellybutton has written a terrific post about her experiences dealing with depression and anxiety. A lot of her experiences mirror mine, which is something I haven’t written about on the blog although I’ve thought a lot about doing so,… Read More ›
Year: 2007
Three, four, five, look at him jive
The simplest ideas, eh? A chap, Juergen, got to wondering what his cat, Mr Lee, got up to all day. So he rigged up a collar-cam and sent him off. The result? Strangely enthralling shots of a day in the… Read More ›
Hell yeah yippiekayyay!
I saw the trailer for Die Hard 4.0 this evening, while waiting to watch Noise (which was excellent, and more of that anon). The stunts highlighted are delightfully over the top, and Bruce Willis looks older but harder and meaner,… Read More ›
Feminist Frustrations
That’s Eryn Loeb’s title for her Bookslut review of two recent feminist primers: Jessica Valenti’s Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters and Megan Seely’s Fight Like a Girl: How to be a Fearless Feminist. Loeb… Read More ›
Puking up pink
I first saw this story from Zenobia, then Jess McCabe added to it, and then Twisty got a hold of it and spanked it. I have little to add to their words, but I thought that what the story really… Read More ›
Nelson Muntz, cue in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Sick of illegal fly-posting for concerts and other events in your neighborhood? Sick of having to pay higher rates because of the expense to council in cleaning it up? Try the solution that Glasgow Council came up with: pay council… Read More ›
Blood on her shoes: hospital safety equipment and embedded sexism
There were no size 5 gumboots on the surgical unit. I was doing a six-month obstetrics & gynaecology residency. I looked all through the women’s theatre changeroom. I found nothing but single-use elasticated paper shoe covers, and a few pairs… Read More ›
Belated Friday Fluffy
This photo is here purely to provide a soothing contrast with the picture in the previous post.
I nearly forgotted to WTF
But ohmykozy reminded me when we went on a photography expedition the other day. I meant to blog these “why, no gender stereotypes here at all, no way, nuh-uh” WC signs that we came across on an earlier cinema expedition:… Read More ›
Salon’s “Milk Money”: media scrutiny of the IBMP-Prolacta partnership
I had posted this as an update to this post, but I thought it deserved a post of its own. Salon has taken up the story of the murky (until last week) relationship between the Oprah-advertised International Breastmilk Project and… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 