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• Friday Fandom: True Blood Season 3

  By tigtog on 2010-09-03 • ( 3 )

  Brought to you by Alan Swist’s True-Blood paper doll collection! Print them out and dress them up!

  Boo-hoo – he hasn’t done one for Alcide yet. Can I just say: fantastic casting!

• Tony Abbott ‘disappointed’ with Greens for agreement with ALP

  By tigtog on 2010-09-01 • ( 10 )

  How sad too bad.

• Day 10 of the hung parliament: media chasing its tail

  By tigtog on 2010-09-01 • ( 4 )

  There’s hardly anybody in the MSM writing anything worth reading about the current situation, because there is nothing to do but wait until 3 men who don’t give a toss about Big Media make their minds up in their own sweet time (as they should).

• Minor blogfart

  By tigtog on 2010-08-31 • ( 21 )

  The problem appears to now be resolved: so should I stick with this look for the blog or revert to the previous theme?

• WTF, YouTube? Documentaries about rape victims are not Unsafe Content

  By tigtog on 2010-08-31 • ( 4 )

  I don’t expect to be confronted with suggested videos with rape fetish titles in the sidebar when I go to look at a trailer for a documentary about rape victims. How the hell can your system not have been tweaked to prevent shit like this happening?

• Gratuitous Pratchett Appreciation thread: Crivens!

  By tigtog on 2010-08-30 • ( 12 )

  In honour of Pterry’s latest Discworld® Witches book, I Shall Wear Midnight (A Tiffany Aching Novel). Official release date September 2nd in the UK.

• Quicklink: Catch Princess Cabaret if you can #edfringe

  By tigtog on 2010-08-28

  I feel bad for not promoting this weeks ago for any Hoydenizens planning to see some Edinburgh Fringe Festival shows this year – there’s only three more shows of Princess Cabaret left to go.

• Femmostroppo Reader – August 27, 2010

  By tigtog on 2010-08-28

  Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed-reader.What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.

• This morning’s sunrise

  By tigtog on 2010-08-27 • ( 2 )

  It was even rosier and purtier when I first went out to bring in the bins, but by the time I’d grabbed the camera the clouds had gone this pale tangerine shade.

• Quicklink: Antony Green on constitutional realities

  By tigtog on 2010-08-27

  …”with neither side having gained a majority in their own right, the murky world of government formation under our system of unwritten constitutional conventions has been exposed to the light”…