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• Occasional Comic Clip No. Heffalumpty-one

  By tigtog on 2008-12-29 • ( 4 )

  Someone I very much hope to see on stage next year as he tours and does a few festivals: Tim Minchin. In this brief clip he reviews the film “Donnie Darko” for the benefit of Margaret Pomeranz.

• ‘cos it deserves its own post

  By tigtog on 2008-12-29 • ( 2 )

  y’all should head on over and read Kate Harding’s Wedding FAQ at Shapely Prose, answering everything you wanted to know about what she did on Friday in Vegas.

• Femmostroppo retrospective 2008

  By tigtog on 2008-12-28 • ( 9 )

  Nominations for the most memorable feminist posts of 2008 will open soon. See last year’s post for guidelines. This year the collection will be published by the end of January, deffo!

• Here be SPOILERZ!!1!

  By tigtog on 2008-12-27 • ( 63 )

  Ok, you Who addicts, have at the 2008 Christmas episode. The pictures below are TEASERS, not SPOILERS, as they were all released by the BBC as promo shots before the episode was aired there. David Morrissey, Dervla Kirwan & Cybermen,… Read More ›

• Friday Hoyden: The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet

  By tigtog on 2008-12-27 • ( 12 )

  I’ve just read this book (which my kids “chose” for me as a prezzie), penned by the redoubtable Colleen McCullough. In it she examines the life of the Bennet sisters twenty years after the events of Pride and Prejudice, especially… Read More ›

• My kids are officially proper teenagers

  By tigtog on 2008-12-25 • ( 12 )

  It’s well after 6 a.m. on Xmas morning and they’re still in bed.

• Happy Holley-Days

  By tigtog on 2008-12-21 • ( 3 )

  This is just soooo British, somehow. This is the fifth year that the Holleys of Yeovil, Somerset, have decorated the topiary globe in their front garden as a Christmas pudding. Retired Roger, who worked at Yeovil District Hospital, said he… Read More ›

• Friday Hoydens: random boisterousness

  By tigtog on 2008-12-20 • ( 5 )

  I have no idea what the history of this picture is. I found it on Facebook, being used as the photo-logo for an event that someone was going to. I have no idea whether these are actual nuns or women… Read More ›

• Oh Hai, Google van!

  By tigtog on 2008-12-19 • ( 6 )

  Check out these two streetviews (I have highlighted the unusual portions): Now that’s not what the Google Streetview van sees on a typical day. You can read an explanation here.

• More Suckage From Hollywood: another adaptation erases POC

  By tigtog on 2008-12-18 • ( 24 )

  My kids are fans of a popular anime called Avatar: The Last Airbender. It’s popular enough that it’s going to be made into a live-action movie. But the characters won’t look the same: they won’t be Asian and Inuit faces… Read More ›