Kiwis and Aussies, the deadline for the Third Down Under Feminists Carnival July edition is coming up at the end of the month! The carnival is scheduled to be published around the 5th August at Audrey and the Bad Apples…. Read More ›
Month: July 2008
Sunday Links: Images and Imaginings
I know I’m not the only person here who spent a fair bit of my youth waiting anxiously for the next National Geographic to hit the mailbox, bringing more fuzzy pictures of our solar system from the Voyager space probe…. Read More ›
Quick hit: Bitch Slap Movie
Continuing this week’s “WTF?” series, here’s the teaser trailer for Bitch Slap Movie“, scheduled for theatrical release around Christmastime. They’ve been promoting the movie this weekend at Comic Con. It’s all breasts, guns, and sexy, sexy violence. I guess this… Read More ›
Sunday inspiration: simple, effective action
Via Catherine Price at Salon comes the story of Olga Murray, who devised a simple, practical philanthropic solution that has virtually eradicated a tradition of starving Nepalese farming families selling their daughters into indentured servitude. 1n 1989 Murray was horrified… Read More ›
John Barrowman gives Smooching Lessons to Maria Contestants
“How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria” is an enjoyable bit of reality TV fluff from Canada. They do musical talent shows soooo much better in Canada than in the USA and Australia. The aim of the show is… Read More ›
Otterday!
A dancing otter for you.
Failing to Suspend My Disbelief
Lazy writers on long-running TV shows are giving me the stabbies quite often, but this particular one is still irritating me after a whole week, so it must be aired. When Dr Nikki Alexander, cool-calm-collected forensic scientist, realises that she’s… Read More ›
Big Brother Friday: Are they doing it deliberately?
April and Ollie (the ‘clean-living’ Pentecostal preacher’s son) are having a showmance on Big Brother Ten USA. The whole shebang – unprotected PIV sex (he withdrew) and all. Go, abstinence-only education! Here’s host Julie Chen interviewing them about their showmance,… Read More ›
Friday Hoyden: Joy Nash
Ok, so this was *everywhere* last year. But some of the readers who’ve come aboard since then may not have seen it. The discussion today about oppressive beauty ideals and the resultant social insecurities that lead to immense profits for… Read More ›
Dramatic kitteh.
http://www.clipser.com/Play?vid=1302739 [via GiggleSugar, but now edited for extra drama. Original Dramatic Chipmunk is here.]
Hoyden About Town 