Condolences to his family and to everyone else who knew and loved him. He was a delight to read and must have been even more of a delight to know.
Month: March 2010
Thursday Cheezburger: Fairytale Kittehs!
And today’s LOLcat theme is: Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes! Post your own favourite Fairytale 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… Read More ›
Between two senior politicians and three journalists, none of us knows how to make it work
The media narrative over the last few days has been remarkably replete with Abbott the Adventurer articles and astonishingly bare of Lost In The Political Wilderness articles. Why is that, I wonder?
Louis Nowra? He has no idea what makes sexists tick
The irony within his own essay, which instead of simply engaging with Greer’s ideas includes gratuitous slams at her personal appearance, slams based on Greer eschewing these allegedly essential feminine fripperies, eludes him. Why, how could people like him mocking women who fail to delight his eye with fripperies possibly have anything to do with women’s “inherent” desire for fripperies?
Quickhit: Trans men still fighting mandatory sterilisation in WA
Amanda Banks writes in The West Australian: Transsexuals in landmark case Two female-to-male transsexuals should be able to keep female organs that allow them to bear children and still be legally recognised as men, it was argued in a landmark… Read More ›
Breastfeeding children and women a “low priority” – Western Australian parliament
Remember the protests in Perth last year about Premier Barnett’s party failing to bring WA into line with the rest of Australia with laws protecting breastfeeding families from harassment? In which Barnett insisted that there would be no need for… Read More ›
X-ray casts
Castoo is a business that offers “tattoos” for plaster casts. You can get dragons, fairies, flames, sharks, old skool tattoos, flowers, or a variety of other designs. My favourite? Send ’em your X-ray, and you’ll get back a cast decoration… Read More ›
Not your punchline, Amanda Palmer.
If you missed this week’s Good News Week, or couldn’t see it because you’re not in Australia, here are the “disabled feminists” sledges aimed at FWD/Forward from Amanda Palmer, Des Bishop, and Paul McDermott. The ones we’ve been talking about… Read More ›
Parenting tips: watch classic movies with your child
So that you won’t ever have to find out one day that they have written something like this to a movie studio.
Quick Hit: Maybe it’s her fault for having a shower?
The photo of a young Lara Bingle which has apparently been doing the rounds of the cricket and AFL players for some time now has been published in the Woman’s Day magazine. Woman’s Day say they did not pay for… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 