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• Media Circus: Woman Has A Baby Edition

  By tigtog on 2013-07-23 • ( 20 )

  

  What non-royal story has piqued your media interests lately?

• Gratuitous Awesome: Stone the crows! It’s Star Wars Down Under!

  By tigtog on 2013-07-17 • ( 14 )

  

  Trailer for Star Wars Downunder. Star Wars Downunder is a 30 minute Star Wars fan film which finally answers the age old question, that has confounded many a film buff before: What would happen if you crossed Star Wars with an Australian beer commercial. Answer? Star Wars Downunder: an epic tale of the good, the bad and the thirsty.

• Media Circus: Invisible Divorce Abbott-Watch Edition

  By tigtog on 2013-07-15 • ( 18 )

  

  Abbott really is living in a Bizarro-World.

• Gratuitous Grumpy Cat Blogging

  By tigtog on 2013-07-13 • ( 12 )

  

  Captain Jack makes everything better.

• Classic Nugget of Awesome: Harriet Jay on Stereotypes, Abused Populations and Survival Tactics

  By tigtog on 2013-07-10

  

  This 2009 quote from Harriet Jay’s remarkable blog Fugitivus came up in a ManBoobz thread. I wanted to highlight it firstly because it’s marvellous, and secondly to link back to the original post to make it easier for others to cite it.
  Stereotypes exist pretty clearly to benefit the current social order, and when somebody enacts the stereotype perfectly, it becomes evidence for the stereotype, and when somebody acts in the complete opposite of the stereotype, they are exceptions and also fall into other very convenient stereotypes …

• NAIDOC Week!

  By tigtog on 2013-07-07 • ( 2 )

  

  I plan to head into town tomorrow for NAIDOC in the City in Hyde Park – the forecast is for a beautiful sunny day, so it should be especially joyous.

• Some thoughts on the military intervention in Egypt

  By tigtog on 2013-07-04 • ( 3 )

  

  It must be very unnerving to be living in Egypt right now.

• Recently in Documenting Incidents: the SFF harassment revelations

  By tigtog on 2013-07-01 • ( 2 )

  

  SFF joins the Deep Rifts! club.

• Can’t blog: singing!

  By tigtog on 2013-07-01 • ( 22 )

  

  Earlier this year I started going to a weekly singing group, encouraged by mr tog because it was happening where he does his band practice, and he was sure that getting back into singing regularly again would make me happier. He was right …

• Media Circus: Farewell Oakeshott and Windsor edition

  By tigtog on 2013-06-26 • ( 15 )

  

  And hello Barnaby Joyce entering the Lower House in the next election.