After watching the news this morning I needed some cheer, so I clicked through to this video of my favourite flash mob effort: Do Re Mi Dance in Antwerp Central Station. Enjoy.
Anyone got some unicorn chasers to share?
arts & entertainment
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Gratuitous Costume Drama Blogging
Since I just finished re-reading Pride and Prejudice, who else can I start with but Lizzy and Darcy?
Happy Sydney Mardi Gras!
I love how the exactly the same objections from some sectors come out every single year.
Open Letter to Melbourne Queer Film Festival attendees
This guest post is from Jonathan Williams, a member of the MQFF trans selection panel, a body which did NOT select one particular trans-themed film which has been included in the festival program.
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From the photographic series, The Girl Who Loves to Levitate by Natsumi Hayashi. “We are all surrounded by social stress as we are bound by the forces of earth’s gravity,” Natsumi says when asked why she took on the series…. Read More ›
Whoydensday: Vale Nicholas Courtney (1929-2011)
Raise a glass tonight for Nicholas Courtney, who played UNIT’s Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge Stewart in Doctor Who, appearing with the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh Doctors, and also in a 2008 episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures. He… Read More ›
Gorgeous BAFTA artwork
BAFTA apparently commission a different graphic artist every year to come up with 5 posters in their own style for each of the Best Picture nominees, and they use these 5 images as covers for these brochures that they hand out to all attendees.
Slam Poetry for Feminism
Via Clementine Ford on FB, two great slam poetry performances from a few years ago.
If more Hollywood producers read Bob the Angry Flower
… they’d never greenlight tosh like Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 (part one!)
Gratuitous Colin Firth blogging
Congratulations to the lovely and talented Mr Firth on his Best Actor BAFTA. Do go and see The King’s Speech if you haven’t already.
Hoyden About Town 