My favourite photo so far this week.
Culture
The milieu through which we swim
Slowing down when passing a crash does not mean one is a rubbernecking ghoul
It might just mean one has consideration for the emergency workers and tow-truckers out there on the roadway while cars are whizzing past. All of us have been well trained to slow down when there are roadworkers on the roadway… Read More ›
Non-sequiturs
I’ve just forgotten what I was about to blog. In the meantime: A few moments ago I accidentally stepped backwards on to my cat’s paw. She yowled and then leaped several feet around the corner, so that she could glare… Read More ›
MSM vs Bloggers Smackdown: MSM still languishing in coma.
Wiggle in her Walk: Anatolian Neolithic Goddess Anyone who still has faith in the veracity of mainstream media “science reporting” really, really needs to start reading Ben Goldacre at badscience.net, despite his grating misuse of prostitution metaphors. Goldacre has blasted… Read More ›
Friday Hoyden: Helen Mirren
From an interview by Louis B. Hobson of the Calgary Sun, Sunday, January 26, 1997: Mirren warns that people shouldn’t confuse her with the stately and staid characters she often plays. “I’ve always been a bit of a wild thing… Read More ›
Wednesday Wow: The Wild!
Another photo from the Wow! image pool on Flickr.
“The sensible maiden will, like the wise virgin, fill her lamp with oil before the bridegroom cometh.”
Here’s my original post introducing the 1905 Ladies’ Handbook of Home Treatment. Thanks for all your chapter requests! I offered you a glimpse of Chapter One: here’s the whole thing, for your edification, chortleification, and irritation. The one thing that… Read More ›
100%. I repeat, ONE HUNDRED PERCENT! Can’t you read? ………. oh. wait.
I’ve blogged on the “partnership” between the International Breastmilk Project and for-profit human-milk-mining pharmaceutical company Prolacta before. To catch up: Feed the wo-orld”¦ one baby, anyhow. Salon’s “Milk Money”: media scrutiny of the IBMP-Prolacta partnership Milking it in California and… Read More ›
“Strange emotions set the young heart throbbing and mayhap seeking for a mate.”
More on Vitalogy later; for now, I thought I’d introduce you to the Ladies’ Handbook of Home Treatment, which I’ll feature more excerpts from as time goes on. (Note the new tag – “old books”). The Ladies’ Handbook was published… Read More ›
Malcolm Turnbull’s environment cred
Helen at Blogger on the Cast Iron Balcony has a nice summary of this week’s brouhaha with the Minister for the Environment reacting badly to criticism from a fellow corporatocrat, Geoff Cousins, about the seemingly fast-tracked approvals process for a… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 