The poster shows the link between Captain James Cook’s HMS Endeavour and the shuttle that commemorates its voyages. This is only one in a series of new posters showing the Shuttles and the missions they have flown.
arts & entertainment
music, stage, writing, comedy, cinema, telly, arts, sport, crafts, photography – all this and more!
Less than 2 weeks left to rate favourite Oz films for IF awards
… it’s a timely reminder that now is the time to make your opinion count in terms of the latest Australian films that are contenders for awards. For those concerned with social justice and media representations of marginalised groups, it’s an excellent opportunity to vote up films with diverse and inclusive casts and storylines.
Friday Fandom: True Blood Season 3
Brought to you by Alan Swist’s True-Blood paper doll collection! Print them out and dress them up!
Boo-hoo – he hasn’t done one for Alcide yet. Can I just say: fantastic casting!
Quicklink: Catch Princess Cabaret if you can #edfringe
I feel bad for not promoting this weeks ago for any Hoydenizens planning to see some Edinburgh Fringe Festival shows this year – there’s only three more shows of Princess Cabaret left to go.
This morning’s sunrise
It was even rosier and purtier when I first went out to bring in the bins, but by the time I’d grabbed the camera the clouds had gone this pale tangerine shade.
Gratuitous fansquee: Manta do the Dr Who theme
Open fansquee thread for anything you can connect to the Whoniverse or Spicks and Specks. Go for it.
Escapist tosh and trash: what’s your poison?
What populist fictional entertainments have you been enjoying lately in your preferred medium that are essentially just gussied-up melodrama or heroic quest or action mayhem?
Too true
My imagination is already reeling. What are your current favourite or most detested wildly inaccurate historical films or TV series, and what future travesties do you think your descendants might see?
Gratuitous Rufus Sewell blogging
thank you so much, web searchers, for alerting me to a show starring Rufus Sewell that I can now gleefully anticipate turning up here in Oz in the not too distant future
Sudden fansquee Sunday
Realising that True Blood‘s maenad Maryann Forrester and Star Trek: Next Generation‘s Ensign Ro were both played by the same actor, Michelle Forbes. Plus…
Hoyden About Town 