This was taken on our big holiday last year, in the picturesque resort town of Fagernes, Norway. I’ve been hanging out to turn it into a Xmas card ever since. Merry Christmas all of you, and thank you so much… Read More ›
Life
Hurrah for bookshops with internet!
I can now check my email and make brief posts! I’m thoroughly enjoying my time with the rels etc except for the lack of the internet, and I am medicating my distress with copious lashings of seafood and wine. I… Read More ›
Scoldmas: Rosanna Capolingua can bite me.
The pres of the AMA has weighed in to lecture us all on our deficient Christmas present buying behaviour. Apparently we should be only buying gifts that encourage the recipient to Exercise! in a Morally! Upright! Manner! Computer games are… Read More ›
Kiwiland convulses
[image source] It must be a relief to Gisborne residents that this Christmas they’re cleaning up mess, not counting their dead. In the Richter 6.8 quake that hit, not one single traumatic death or major injury has been reported. One… Read More ›
Battlestar Galactica: Feminist Or Not?
Spoiler warning: post and comments thread may contain spoilers for BSG through Season Three and the Razor movie. I’ve been pondering the feministicity or otherwise of Battlestar Galactica (the new version). I started making a list. Of course, it’s not… Read More ›
It’s Not Any Patriarchy, It’s Just Biology (yeah, right)
This is an early Feminism Friday post, as I won’t have time to write anything this long again until the New Year, probably. This post has been edited for clarity since it was first published. A thread disrupter is trying… Read More ›
Naughty girls down under. With a bullet.
Har. Hoyden About Town is now top of the pops in a Google Australia search for naughty girls. Update 26 Dec 07: we’re now second in a worldwide googlesearch for naughty little girls.
About Time
Pavlov’s Cat has written a Meme for the Middle-Aged: finally a blog-meme which doesn’t include a single teenage hipster reference. Hurrah! I won’t get around to it until the New Year probably, but I do intend to have a go…. Read More ›
Duncan Fine talks sense on BMI
It’s not anything that our readers familiar with Shapely Prose don’t know, but using the BMI as the sole determinant of whether someone is overweight or obese is a really unreliable measurement. Given the hysteria this week about Australia’s “obesity… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 