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• Bad feminists, no biscuit for you

  By tigtog on 2006-03-03 • ( 2 )

  Stephen Mayne seems to be busy thrashing some strawfeminists lately – because “they” are not speaking out about the things he thinks they ought to. Unfortunately this does not appear on the Crikey! website, just in the daily newsletter. Sexist… Read More ›

• Not happy, John

  By tigtog on 2006-03-03

  The only thing I’ve found remotely amusing about this past week’s hagiography of the Spinrat’s 10 years as PM is that the union demonstrators in Sydney last night were able to make enough noise that he had to use the… Read More ›

• Cate does a Hedda in Brooklyn

  By tigtog on 2006-03-03 • ( 2 )

  I know I have a few folks in NYC and environs who drop by, so here’s an entertainment plug: go and see Cate Blanchett in the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s… Read More ›

• Breaking rules since 1963

  By tigtog on 2006-02-28

  Apparently, even before his birth, my nickname not only broke all the rules of tig but my very existence as a tigtog supports the exploitation of Elijah Wood’s trusting nature. Who knew? “No, Elijah, you can’t tig on a tog,… Read More ›

• I gots me some theme music!

  By tigtog on 2006-02-27

  Well, Joanne in Bolton who wrote it thinks she named it for her cat, who is obviously the most superior of felines, but here is ambient electronica “Tigtog”. I’m not the biggest electronica fan in the world, but I quite… Read More ›

• Atticus, Scout , mad dogs and morphine addicts

  By tigtog on 2006-02-27 • ( 4 )

  A few weeks ago this post by zuzu made me bump To Kill A Mockingbird up to the top of my “classics I gotta read one day” list. I started reading it a few hours ago and have now finished… Read More ›

• New cartoon concept

  By tigtog on 2006-02-27

  I have been laid semi-low by the dreaded lurgy this week, making me more churlish than my usual charming self, resulting in dialogue such as the following: tigtog: “I’m still feeling icky and woozy, so I’m going to have a… Read More ›

• Tragedy of the Closet

  By tigtog on 2006-02-24

  There’s been a lot of ink and electrons devoted to Brokeback Mountain, but here’s what I think is the best review (major plot spoilers alert)- An Affair to Remember from the New York Review of Books’ Daniel Mendelsohn, pointing out… Read More ›

• Trade Practises Act no protection against misleading advertising from pregnancy counsellors

  By tigtog on 2006-02-23 • ( 2 )

  Nastasha Stott Despoja is introducing into Parliament the Transparent Advertising and Notification of Pregnancy Counselling Services Bill. Why is this necessary? Because Tony Abbott is seeking to increase funding to pregnancy counselling services. Abbott’s move looks reasonable until you realise… Read More ›

• Get a bloody move on

  By tigtog on 2006-02-23

  Listening to Richard Glover on ABC702 this afternoon, I heard a poem I hadn’t heard for years, “The Australaise”. My dad read it to me long ago. By CJ Dennis, it was entered, tongue I imagine firmly in cheek, for… Read More ›