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• Whoydensday Quicklink: Doctor and Donna do the Bard

  By tigtog on 2011-01-19 • ( 6 )

  Kinda. David Tennant and Catherine Tate will reunite to perform Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing (as Benedick and Beatrice, respectively) for a season at Wyndham’s Theatre in London’s West End.

• Today in weird places my mind goes

  By tigtog on 2011-01-19 • ( 4 )

  Coming downstairs to find the sprogs watching the Star Trek reboot movie for the umpteenth time, and having my head in fanspace after reading 15 Reasons Rebooting Spider-Man Is A Really Bad Idea yesterday, this is the thought that crossed my mind (and it may have already been discussed in fandom, but I am so not googling it):

• Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes: what did they expect?

  By tigtog on 2011-01-17 • ( 12 )

  Say what? Gervais got famous by making people uncomfortable at why they are laughing at his material, by deliberately crossing boundaries of “good taste”, and he also has a mean streak. This is not A Great Big Showbiz Secret.

• Quicklink: And He Reckons He’s Not A Monster

  By tigtog on 2011-01-17 • ( 5 )

  Florida Rape Suspect Asks For Public Defender After Cross-Examining Alleged Victim So, after he has, acting as his own attorney, asked her questions for hours in the courtroom about her accusation that he raped her, making her relive it in… Read More ›

• Femmostroppo Reader January 15, 2011

  By tigtog on 2011-01-15 • ( 3 )

  Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.

• *cough* *splutter* *ache* *limp*

  By tigtog on 2011-01-14 • ( 5 )

  What energy I have is being conserved for things other than blogging, at the moment. I’m missing keeping on top of things, but not enough to actually do anything about it.

• A few links about what is and what is not a ‘blood libel’

  By tigtog on 2011-01-13 • ( 7 )

  A ‘blood libel’ is much more than just a ‘false accusation’, and there’s no way that the speech-writer couldn’t have known that.

• Quote of the Day: martial language vs eliminationist rhetoric

  By tigtog on 2011-01-12 • ( 5 )

  The problem is not martial language. The problem is the discussion of martial solutions, mentioned as actual policy options. That’s what “eliminationist rhetoric” means, you weaseling fucks.

  ADDENDUM: Sarah Palin fans the heated rhetoric flames by playing the victim card and describing criticism as a “blood libel”. Seriously.

• Femmostroppo Reader January 12, 2011

  By tigtog on 2011-01-12

  Items of interest come across recently in my feed-reader. What did I miss? Leave your own interesting links in comments.

• Abbott Watch: Scumbaggery alert

  By tigtog on 2011-01-11 • ( 1 )

  Sure, that’s the most important thing right now, Tony. Remind everybody about the terrible no good horrible very very bad NBN.

  Ghoul.