Lacking inspiration while scheduling posts to be published this week while I’m on hols, I did a search on videos for “Tuesday”. I’d forgotten all about new wave band ‘Til Tuesday and Voices Carry, with that electrifying lyric “he wants… Read More ›
Month: July 2008
Tuesday Links
A Pacman cupcake tableau. Because you can. ——————————————————- From Amazon via Photoshop Disasters, Completely Pointless Knickers, aka the “Deluxe String of Bubbles”. Where are her labia? WHERE?
Order of the Douche Savant: MJA forced-birther Edward D Watt
In other news from the latest Medical Journal of Australia, the Journal published forced-birther pontifications[1] from Claremont-based retired UWA Politics academic Edward D. Watt (Ted Watt). You know the drill: The article is entirely adult-centred: its authors never hint that… Read More ›
My brane is weird part eleventy thousand and three
Last Friday my brane turned observing a sky like this Iambic, originally uploaded by dumbeast. into my mind’s eye being unable to stop seeing John Hurt like this:
The Last Train out of Sydney
We are lucky to have the blogger from Fuck Politeness as a guest Hoyden this week. Fuckpoliteness is a blog born out of frustration over society’s obsessive commitment to formal/semantic politeness – to the empty vision of ‘manners’ in which… Read More ›
Poverty, “Risky Behaviour”, and the Virtuous Healthy-Sick-Person Interrogation
WA Today reports that poor people who have been seriously ill die sooner after hospital discharge than wealthy people do. No surprises there – we all know that poor people have poorer health outcomes across the board. The results of… Read More ›
“Blog your way to happiness”
[These random happybloggers, who are definitely not Helen and Suze, come to you courtesy of manmadepants on Flickr and a Creative Commons licence.] Hoydenizens Helen and Suze both featured in an Age article this week, “Blog your way to happiness“…. Read More ›
SF Sunday: cult SF films
This topic seems timely given the discovery of a full-length version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis that had been disregarded for years in the archives of a museum in Buenos Aires. Image Source: Emory Libraries Metropolis is a classic utopia revealed… Read More ›
A paean to “radical feminist” organisation the Girl Scouts of America
The threat: bone-chillingly radical feminist Girl Scouts. Mississippi-based Christian “news” service One News Now claims to offer up “news without the liberal bias”. It also offers up news without that dastardly word “gay”, as Jeff Fecke and Melissa have noted… Read More ›
Otterday!
I love love love today’s otter. This baby river otter was found wandering around Petaluma with his friends. After stopping into a tavern and an auto parts store, they were guided to a more appropriate creek by Sonoma County Wildlife… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 