Update 3 Jun 08: Eye on Big Brother is now saying that the product squirted into Travis’s eye was not a body cleansing product as BB had claimed, but a shower mould remover, as we at Hoyden About Town suspected…. Read More ›
Year: 2008
The Lord of the Living Room
What greeted us on our return from our walk. moar funny pictures That’s just on a share page at the moment. You can vote for it if you’d like to see it make the front page of ICHC. Just click… Read More ›
Friday Hoyden: How to Hoyden Hepburn
Oh, I have enjoyed dipping into this over the last couple of weeks.
Karen Karbo has tapped into the rich vein of enduring fascination with Kate the Great, taking a delightfully fresh approach to a much examined life. She uses quotes and anecdotes from and about Hepburn judiciously and examines the implications with a fond but clarifying eye.
Everyday Codebreaking: Aptamil advertising
Another look at advertising by artificial baby milk companies. I’m going to take a look at the visual imagery in the ad used to present their product as not just “as good as breastmilk”, but subtly or not-so-subtly better. First… Read More ›
Privacy rights in Child Protection investigations: the need for the mass media to disguise identifying features on the minors in the Henson images
Author Note: The original title of this post was “Do the right thing, Mainstream Media: disguise the faces of the minors in your reproductions of the Henson images NOW”, deliberately imperative because I wanted it to grab attention in people’s… Read More ›
Graeme Reeves “Butcher of Bega” update
[image source] As the three-month-old 12-detective Strike Force Tarella continues to investigate and accumulate evidence on a multitude of cases, retired Federal Court judge Deirdre O’Connor has completed a review into the employment of abusive doctor Graeme Reeves. Reeves is… Read More ›
Feminist bookmark alert: street harassment
Over at The F-word, Laura Woodhouse has responded to a post at the Guardian’s Comment is Free about street harassment, or more particularly to the response it provoked on the Guardian’s own site: once again the comments section has filled… Read More ›
Retired police superintendent’s view on the politicisation of complaints against Henson’s work
image source – Daily Telegraph gallery Alan Leek points out in a letter to the SMH that he has a unique viewpoint on this case with a history of being both a police officer and an art exhibitor. Because that… Read More ›
Wednesday quick picks
A peddler of “adorable baby onesies” brings us this playground pimp infant fashion piece. IHNTA. ******************************************************
Bazlotto! – the evidence
Finally, after all these years! Bazlotto is mine! Just had to take a screencap. Of course, I must confess my shameful secret – I actually got Bazlotto yesterday when I visited Lucy Tartan’s blog, and I thought I’d taken a… Read More ›
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