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writer, singer, webwrangler, blogger, comedy tragic | about.me/vivsmythe

  • A novel gift idea

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    The Australian has the best headline on this: Snip in time for your Valentine. If you don’t want more children than you already have, then give your beloved your vasectomy for Valentine’s Day, and free her from contraceptive worries, says… Read More ›

  • A quote I hadn’t heard before

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    Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact. – Marlene Dietrich Which reminds me I haven’t collected any Dietrich pics for my hoyden images collection. A sad oversight indeed. Googling for images is a fine… Read More ›

  • Oh no

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    News just in: AUTHORITIES in New Zealand have called off the search for missing trans-Tasman kayaker Andrew McAuley. I’ve never met him, but my parents know him quite well. They know his wife and boy rather better, because Andrew tends… Read More ›

  • Not bad for an atheist

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    Blame the creationists. They made provoked me into reading the texts they were quoting in order to argue with them.

  • Sunday Songbook

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    Laurie Anderson – Beautiful Red Dress lyrics below

  • Vale F.U.

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    Ian Richardson has died, at 72. I saw him on stage a few years ago with various other Sirs and a Dame in that show about British Royals: his diction was so fabulously pure I swear he articulated the apostrophes.

  • Obstreperal lobe engaged

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    Nasty stuff (PTSD trigger alert): sex trafficking and so called “consensual sex contracts” which appear to be simply an attempt to license sexual assault and get away with it. Time to BTP (Addit: add your own angermakers in comments). Link… Read More ›

  • The Un-Australian Government

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    Go take a look at Weez’s suggested election poster for the Libs. (To minimise confusion for my American visitors, understand that the Liberal Party in Australia are actually conservatives, Tories to the core.)

  • Return of the Friday Furry (with bonus ad hoc hoyden!)

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    I believe some of you have been suffering withdrawals (that’s my excuse to justify how I’ve been missing playing around with my image collection anyway). Stabled (1990) William Wegman Wegman is the Weimaraner photographer, who’s taken umpty-zillion shots of his… Read More ›

  • Ignoring Islamic feminism

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    Firstly, a well-researched piece from The Guardian, Islamic Feminism On The Move: Muslim societies, from Afghanistan where female teachers are singled out for killing by a resurgent Taliban, to Saudi Arabia where women are not allowed to drive or travel… Read More ›