Tom Cruise: the male Paris Hilton (hat tip for proposition to Elizabeth, via mailing list)
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A middle-aged woman with a hammer
makes teenage boys very twitchy. All I had to do was hammer in one nail into the timber frame of a prop for the high school musical on the weekend and I had a helpful young man offering to do… Read More ›
Strewth! Flash used for not-evil!
A Flash animation of Tom Lehrer’s The Elements song. It’s glorious.
Andrew Denton Knows His Audience
His final question to the three evangelist brothers – admit it, we all wanted to know about that hair. Image Credit: ABC-TV Update: the comments below have moved more to discussing the competing claims of faith and unbelief outlined in… Read More ›
After Bastard Boys
There was quite a bit of chest beating about bias with regard to the ABC drama Bastard Boys broadcast over the last two nights. Certainly the show is unlikely to do Greg Combet’s electoral chances any harm at all. But… Read More ›
Friday Fluffy linkfest
Ripped from my feedreader this week: Mentis Fugit gives us the story of two US military veterans deciding to bestow their Purple Hearts on two separate individuals they felt worthy of the decoration. Men and Women like different films (except… Read More ›
Ever found that whole Mars/Venus male/female thing sorta suss?
You’re not alone. The problem is that John Gray knows very well how to hit all the socially constructed hot buttons on male entitlement and female submission so that readers infer the message that Venusians have only themselves to blame… Read More ›
More weekend silliness
I’m working on a long post which isn’t coming together quite yet, so I keep distracting myself. Anyway, I found this picture, and frankly I’m astonished. I wonder how many of you can guess who this is? You can probably… Read More ›
Right. It’s inflicting time!
Since Wednesday night I have had an earworm of the most incredibly cheesy version of “Afternoon Delight” imaginable. Simply by reading that, some of you will now have the same, especially if you too watched The Chaser on Wednesday. Ha!… Read More ›
Sunset
Sadly, no lennies appeared when I went to view the sunset on Wednesday evening. However the sunset was still most spectacular, with a large clump of cloud right above the setting sun and ribbons of altocumulus streaming down to the… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 