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arts & entertainment
music, stage, writing, comedy, cinema, telly, arts, sport, crafts, photography – all this and more!
APOD goes dancing
A couple of weeks ago I featured Matt Harding, who put up video on the internet of himself dancing, sometimes alone and sometimes with others (often a huge crowd) around the world. Today, that’s the Astronomy Picture of the Day’s… Read More ›
Kristen Schaal is brilliant
Kristen Schaal, as seen on Flight of the Conchords, is now the “senior women’s issues commentor” for Jon Stewart’s Daily Show. http://www.thedailyshow.com/sitewide/video_player/view/default/swf.jhtml H/T Unapolegetically Female via RH Reality Check
What the Big Giant Head phenomenon is really about
I think I just had an epiphany about the Big Giant Head phenomenon in bad photoshopping of glamour photos of women. The missing ribs and wasp waists are bad enough, but the BGH lollipop-look appears again and again and again…. Read More ›
LOLpology
I may regret this. I am venting at a bullying hierarchy, not the body of believers. I don’t find religious beliefs persuasive, but see no need to insult believers in general. The Vatican hierarchy is another matter entirely – I… Read More ›
The Papal apology for clerical abuse in Australia
Kim has some excellent analysis of where it fails to hit the mark over at LP. Two major problems: the setting of the apology (a mass for seminarians and clergy/religious orders only) reflects an inward focus on dealing with abuse… Read More ›
Oh, the hilarity
British stand-up comedian Russell Brand rings the Nottingham police from the stage of his show, and hoaxes them by saying he’s seen a man who might be the serial sexual assaulter whom they seek. He then issues an “apology” about… Read More ›
Otterday!
This Otterday photo comes from splityarn at flickr. Cap away!
Friday Hoyden: Elphaba
A mile above Oz, the Witch balanced on the wind’s forward edge, as if she were a green fleck of the land itself, flung up and sent wheeling away by the turbulent air. That is the opening sentence of the… Read More ›
Friday News Links Dump
It’s all over the TV news here in Australia this morning, though I can’t find video online, but here’s a picture gallery of the Amazing Shark Rescue Mission, where the marine scientists from the Gold Coast’s Sea World park led… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 