Today’s LOLcat theme is: Defence! Post your own favourite defence-mechanism 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 image only –… Read More ›
Year: 2010
Femmostroppo Reader – January 27, 2010
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. The Dangerous Desire to Adopt Haitian Babies – “Adoptee bloggers who also study adoption academically —… Read More ›
“Good job, boys!”
Advertising “Did I really just see that?” du jour: the All-Bran Dual ad. This played with saturation coverage during the last Masterchef season, and I finally came across an online version. http://www.clipser.com/Play?vid=1409650
Experiments in radically downsized living
I find these kinds of stories fascinating. People choosing to ‘live poor’ (though of course with the capacity to leave when they want to, and also while equipped with the education, networks and self-esteem that a life of opportunity has… Read More ›
Clumsy Mönty Pythøn gåg
An essential element in any self-respecting incendiary blog post‘s comments thread.
Tautology Of The Day: cashing in on MJ dept
The Jacksons: A Family Dynasty Thanks for the vote of confidence in the average vocabulary, A&E.
Opting Out
I’m not doing anything for Australia Day today, because I don’t want to be even potentially confused with one of the flag-waving jingoists.
Thought of the Day, grand romantic gesture department
Gifts shouldn’t be about what you want someone else to do, or be.
Femmostroppo Reader – January 25, 2010
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.
Riley, Hilary, Leslie, Mackenzie, Lindsay, Taylor, Logan, Hunter
Once these names were all once considered manly names exuding virility. Yet every one of these traditionally masculine names might as well suddenly have become Sue, since all it took for most parents to stop giving these names to their sons was for them to become popular names for girls.
Hoyden About Town 