Life

Otterday! And Open Thread.

By lauredhel on 2012-02-18 • ( 13 )

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 good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you’d like to discuss? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

Things that add to tigtog’s misanthropy #8725606

By tigtog on 2012-02-17 • ( 3 )

Any sapient meteors planning on committing suicide in the earth’s atmosphere in the near future? Please consider targeting this dipshit as your final gesture? PLEASE.

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Thursday Internet Tradition: Internet Performance Artists

By tigtog on 2012-02-16 • ( 7 )

Hoydens are aware of all Internet traditions! But we share our hard-won cultural knowledge! This week, we introduce you to the tradition of Internet Performance Artists

Outland Open Thread: Episodes 1 and 2

By Beppie on 2012-02-15 • ( 27 )

Last week saw the premiere of a new Australian comedy, Outland, penned by John Richards and Adam Richard, which focuses on the lives of a club for gay sci-fi geeks (or “science fiction enthusiast homosexualists” as club member Rae would prefer).

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Very, very tired

By tigtog on 2012-02-15 • ( 5 )

So tired. Even more tired than Chris Brown is of being reminded of things he’d rather we all forgot about.

HAPPY UNIMAGINATIVE, CONSUMER-ORIENTED AND ENTIRELY ABITRARY, MANIPULATIVE AND SHALLOW INTERPRETATION OF ROMANCE DAY!

Occupy Valentine’s Day: down with couple-talism!

By tigtog on 2012-02-13 • ( 6 )

I’m rather liking the rethink-V-day activism around this year, which has ended up being a bit more substantive than some of the Anti-Valentine hating that I’ve seen around in other years. How about doing something positive/useful/affirming instead? Create rather than consume, or raise awareness about the limited ways we think about romance.