It’s Carnival Time! We made it into our second year, yay!
The Eighth Edition of the Down Under Feminists’ Carnival is now up at stephiepenguin’s place.
There is plenty of great holiday reading, from
Day: 2009-01-02
Friday Hoyden: Candice Bergen and her singing voice
Friday Hoyden: Candice Bergen
Why do I have Bergen pegged as a Hoyden? The characters she has played on television does bust submissive femininity norms, so that’s part of it. But I think it’s her bad singing that has really reeled me in. It’s hard enough to sing in public when you can hold a tune, but it takes a special kind of hoydenish chutzpah to do it when you can’t. And I like that.
Fitzwilliam Darcy became a fan of Fine Eyes.
I unaccountably missed seeing this on Crooked Timber earlier this month, and which is based on McSweeney’s Hamlet (Facebook News Feed Edition)
Faves: Disability
Hoyden About Town is looking forward to the finalist voting in the 2008 Weblog Awards. I’ve put together a few of my posts from the past, in the categories Feminism, Breasts, bodies and birth, Bad science, Big pharma, and Disability. They’re not chosen for any strict criteria – just the posts I found memorable, the ones linked a lot, the ones that attracted lots of comments.
Hoyden About Town 