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• The Lord of the Living Room

  By tigtog on 2008-05-31

  What greeted us on our return from our walk. moar funny pictures That’s just on a share page at the moment. You can vote for it if you’d like to see it make the front page of ICHC. Just click… Read More ›

• Friday Hoyden: How to Hoyden Hepburn

  By tigtog on 2008-05-30 • ( 5 )

  Oh, I have enjoyed dipping into this over the last couple of weeks.

  Karen Karbo has tapped into the rich vein of enduring fascination with Kate the Great, taking a delightfully fresh approach to a much examined life. She uses quotes and anecdotes from and about Hepburn judiciously and examines the implications with a fond but clarifying eye.

• Privacy rights in Child Protection investigations: the need for the mass media to disguise identifying features on the minors in the Henson images

  By tigtog on 2008-05-30 • ( 5 )

  Author Note: The original title of this post was “Do the right thing, Mainstream Media: disguise the faces of the minors in your reproductions of the Henson images NOW”, deliberately imperative because I wanted it to grab attention in people’s… Read More ›

• Feminist bookmark alert: street harassment

  By tigtog on 2008-05-29 • ( 8 )

  Over at The F-word, Laura Woodhouse has responded to a post at the Guardian’s Comment is Free about street harassment, or more particularly to the response it provoked on the Guardian’s own site: once again the comments section has filled… Read More ›

• Retired police superintendent’s view on the politicisation of complaints against Henson’s work

  By tigtog on 2008-05-29 • ( 7 )

  image source – Daily Telegraph gallery Alan Leek points out in a letter to the SMH that he has a unique viewpoint on this case with a history of being both a police officer and an art exhibitor. Because that… Read More ›

• Bazlotto! – the evidence

  By tigtog on 2008-05-28 • ( 2 )

  Finally, after all these years! Bazlotto is mine! Just had to take a screencap. Of course, I must confess my shameful secret – I actually got Bazlotto yesterday when I visited Lucy Tartan’s blog, and I thought I’d taken a… Read More ›

• Mary Sues & Doctor Who

  By tigtog on 2008-05-28 • ( 36 )

  I posted an open Whoverse thread over at LP, for those who like such things, in which I mentioned the upcoming Season 4 character of Jenny, and whether she is indeed the biggest Mary Sue ever. I’m not sure though… Read More ›

• Non-scandalous photography: classic farm cat shot

  By tigtog on 2008-05-27 • ( 10 )

  image source (via Lauredhel) Lauredhel sent me the link to this pic yesterday, and while it made me chuckle it also made me sniffle a little. My dearly beloved two passed pusscats, Bella and Poco, were respectively a tabby and… Read More ›

• For the record

  By tigtog on 2008-05-27 • ( 14 )

  This is a photo taken of me when I was 14. It was taken at the social nudist club to which my family belonged, in a quiet area of bushland, and I was nude. It was part of a photo-shoot… Read More ›

• The Poison Dwarf scrapes the barrel: now a comedy act is a “sex storm”

  By tigtog on 2008-05-26 • ( 5 )

  He’s trying to manufacture a scandal over the fact that the ALP candidate for the upcoming by-election for the seat of Gippsland did, as part of his duties as a cultural festival organiser in the region last year, support and… Read More ›