Last Friday my brane turned observing a sky like this Iambic, originally uploaded by dumbeast. into my mind’s eye being unable to stop seeing John Hurt like this:
arts & entertainment
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SF Sunday: cult SF films
This topic seems timely given the discovery of a full-length version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis that had been disregarded for years in the archives of a museum in Buenos Aires. Image Source: Emory Libraries Metropolis is a classic utopia revealed… Read More ›
Otterday!
I love love love today’s otter. This baby river otter was found wandering around Petaluma with his friends. After stopping into a tavern and an auto parts store, they were guided to a more appropriate creek by Sonoma County Wildlife… Read More ›
Some things make the world a better place
Image Source: Matt Harding, el bailarín trotamundos de YouTube, en Madrid This guy, Matt Harding, went travelling and shot video of himself doing a silly dance, that ended up on the internet. That ended up getting some chewing gum company’s… Read More ›
Whoydensday! Season 4 Official Trailer
Below is the official BBC teaser trailer for Season 4: This is an Open Season 4 Wishes, Speculations and Horrible Suspicions Thread. As usual, those Hoydenizens who live in countries where some of the series has already been shown, please… Read More ›
All time favourite
Come to Australia, you might accidentally get killed! The song is “Deadly Animals”, by Australian comedy musical duo The Scared Weird Little Guys (aka the Scaredies), and it’s all over the Intertubes (my second cousin just posted it to us… Read More ›
Disappointment
is the reaction of the neighbourhood mooch-cat to finding that the interesting pile on the kitchen floor is only locks of hair from the buzzcut I gave my son this morning instead of something delicious. “To tell of disappointment and… Read More ›
Otterday!
Today’s otter comes courtesy of the Sunshine Coast Daily. Mo and Bud, small-clawed south east Asian otters from Underwater World, are on their way to New Zealand for what the Daily calls “a breeding holiday”. An Underwater World spokesperson said:… Read More ›
Friday Hoyden: Dame Doctor Judi Dench
Dame Judi has been made an honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Image Source: University of St Andrews Press Office “It was very embarrassing, you know. You see a photograph of yourself and that’s… Read More ›
I’m not worthy
You know that stage when you’ve been doing a hobby five years or so, and you think you’re getting really quite good at it most of the time, then you cruise Etsy and the blogosphere and realise you’re totally not… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 