Lacking inspiration while scheduling posts to be published this week while I’m on hols, I did a search on videos for “Tuesday”. I’d forgotten all about new wave band ‘Til Tuesday and Voices Carry, with that electrifying lyric “he wants… Read More ›
history
those who do not know are doomed to repeat etc, besides it’s fascinating
You wouldn’t want to have actually seen this
A superior example of an artist’s reconstruction of a historical event. Image Source: Sky and Telescope, Tunguska: 100 Years and Counting Caption: Here’s how the Tunguska blast might have looked from the windows of a nearby airliner. The expanding shock… 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 ›
SF Sunday
A few things lately have got me thinking about two distinct strands of definitively “what-if?” speculative fiction which sometimes intertwine – the alternate history based narrative, and the utopian-dystopian narrative.
Word of the day:
triskaidekaphobia Who’s got a scary story? Image Credit: skalasinc
Japan officially recognizes Ainu as indigenous people for first time
It’s a start. TOKYO (AP) – Japan’s parliament voted Friday to recognize the Ainu ethnic group as the country’s indigenous people for the first time and urged steps to reverse a century of discrimination and poverty. The votes in both… Read More ›
“Any tendency to self-handling at its earliest manifestation will lead the wise mother to at once adopt means for its suppression.”
Another instalment in the 1905 Ladies’ Handbook series! The original post is here. Chapter IV is titled “Sex Physiology and Hygiene“. It’s long, so I’ll break it up into parts. It opens with a passionate plea for early and vigorous… Read More ›
“Thus the disease may be conveyed by promiscuous kissing”
The first Ladies’ Handbook post is here. This instalment, “Syphilis” and “Personal Responsibility”, completes Chapter III: “Outside The Marriage Circle”. [Bold is mine.] I don’t really expect everyone to be as interested in old medical descriptions as I am, but… Read More ›
“…it is not strange that men and women who do not recognise the sacredness of marriage should decide to enjoy what they regard as its pleasures without being bound by its contract.”
Another instalment in the Ladies’ Handbook series: “Chapter III: Outside The Marriage Circle”. The original post is here. The madonna/whore dichotomy is hard to miss in this one. It is the polluted prostitutes that infect promiscuous men, who then carry… Read More ›
Can’t resist
Everybody’s been posting versions of this today (USA time), but I just had to join in. As a listserv friend posted, Happy Mission Accomplished Day! image source: SeattlePi.com The latest White House press statement on the banner? “President Bush is… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 