The milieu through which we swim
Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a great book? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?
So this week most of the mass media is purporting to believe that it is possible to produce alchohol from brewers yeast extract.
What’s piqued your media interests lately?
Feeling so much rage right now against the troglodytes showing their arses all over the internet and mass media this week.
What’s piqued your media interests lately?
This post contains some small spoilers, so be aware if you plan to see this movie but haven’t yet. Discussion of the movie in comments may also contain spoilers. There won’t be any major spoilers in this review.
Yes, I am ploughing my way through the Hugo 2014 nominated works, why do you ask?
After the murder of nine people at a Bible study group in a church in South Carolina, USA, in a white supremacist terrorist massacre specifically targeting black Americans, many people’s patience has run out with the display of racist symbols… Read More ›
Link of the day: as of 29 June 2015, 457 seperate referenced items of Abbott’s Wreckage –
What media story has caught your attention lately?
So this week marks a big round number anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta. I’m expecting our Prime Minister will say something especially cringeworthy to mark the occasion.
What news items have caught your interest lately?
Cross-posted from Flaming Moth Towards the end of his career, Shakespeare wrote a string of plays that make a feature of the relationship between an ageing patriarch and a daughter who is coming into adulthood. These young women are all possessed… Read More ›
Australia’s first female premier, 1990-92 in Victoria, has died aged 76.
Hoyden About Town 