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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 ›
AP backpedaling?
Lauredhel posted last week about AP’s Cease and Desist posturing over a blogger using short excerpts from their articles (with attribution and links). Today? SMH: AP to hammer out deal with bloggers Jim Kennedy, the AP’s director of strategic planning,… Read More ›
ObWhoydensday Quick Hit: Who is back!
Auntie’s got her act together: this Sunday night at 7:30pm! That’s the Doctor Who 2007 Christmas Special, guest starring our own Singing Budgie, who I really liked in this part. They don’t say so incontrovertibly, but the ABC website does… Read More ›
Nitpickers alert: sexual health education division
Allison Pearson is outraged that her 12 year old daughter knows all about contraception and sexually transmitted diseases, because this will apparently ruin the youthful romantic yearnings that all teenage girls should have by right, yet paradoxically this very lack… Read More ›
Who’s the TV couple of the Noughties?
[Images and links may include spoilers.] The turn of the century seems only moments ago to me, but it’s 2008 already. And I’ve been contemplating who is the TV romantic pairing of the decade. In the seventies, we had Joanie… Read More ›
More gruesome graphics
Yet another forced-birther group: If you were born after 1972, we challenge you to consider yourself a Survivor of the Abortion Holocaust. 1/3 of your generation has been killed by abortion in America! To hammer their point home, Survivors has… Read More ›
Three Hits: Gender Binary Edition
Hell On Hairy Legs shares a post-patriarchal Doctor Who ficlet: Doctor: (airily) Oh marriage is long gone, went with the gender binary. The downfall of patriarchy made sex so much less complicated. Donna: Gender binary? Whadya mean? There are men… Read More ›
I saw a great need
Maybe it’s only because I’m full of the flu and curmudgeonly as hell today, but the inevitable angel-washing after the latest celebrity cancer death is pissing me off. She was, apparently, brave (i.e. uncomplaining). You know, I’m sure she was,… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 