Courtesy of Anna in her post Let’s Bust Some Myths: People with disabilities just want to sue the world into compliance, I found this video – the lowlights of Penn & Teller’s “Bullshit!” show on the Americans With Disabilities Act…. Read More ›
Month: December 2009
Carnival! Submissions close on January 2 for December posts.
The Twentieth Edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival is fast approaching! There are around 3 days until the close of submissions, so get your posts in as soon as possible. This edition will be hosted by PharaohKatt at Something… Read More ›
Thursday Cheezburger: Drama Class
Today’s High-School-Class themed LOLcats are all about DRAMA. Post your own favourite Drama Cheez here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear. Please post a link to a FULL webpage, rather than a direct link to an… Read More ›
Retrospecticon 2009: Faves and Fails
Seeing as the media is so predictable on the retrospectives, let’s have at it ourselves.
Fairfax Feature Fail
Fairfax never fail to disappoint. Right now WAToday is running a front-page-promoted slideshow thus: The photos of the decade A selection of amazing, spellbinding images from the past ten years. Right next to a photo of a burning World Trade… Read More ›
Holidays are for Wibble: Aquatic Gardening
Further to a discussion on one of the Lad’s Xmas presents (a fishtank upgrade), meloukhia from this ain’t livin’ and FWD/Forward (Feminists with Disabilities) pointed me to this article on “aquatic gardening”: fishtanks that concentrate not so much on the… Read More ›
‘Avatar’ Indignation Thread
By popular request (and my need for a place to vent, still), this is the thread in which to point out plot holes, the rampant racism, (hetero)sexism and ableism, and general all-round problems with James Cameron’s new ‘epic’, Avatar. Also… Read More ›
Femmostroppo Reader – December 28, 2009
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments. Doctor Who: The End of Time – Part 2 – Exclusive Scene (video) – dunh dunh… Read More ›
Holidays Are For Wibble: Battlestar Rhapsody (spoilericious)
Why did I not know about this at the time? It’s a songvid of several seasons of Battlestar Galactica, set to filk of Bohemian Rhapsody. The random, apparently-obligatory (WTF is with that, things-that-are-otherwise-funny?) bit of misogyny in the middle is… Read More ›
Sydney Hoydenizens Do Karaoke!
So, the details for the much-anticipated karaoke evening, filled to the brim with Hoydenizen renditions of the Hottest 100 Women [link to http://hottest100women.blogspot.com/%5D as well as some trashy favourites, I don’t doubt, are below:
Hoyden About Town 