Life

BFTP: Parenting While Female: “It’s Not About You”

This is part of our December slowdown Blast From The Past reposting program. This post was originally published May 2nd, 2007.

I’ve been contemplating this post: The Male Gaze… falls upon a Nursing Mother…. by Morgan Gallagher. I think there’s an important truth in there, something feminists find themselves saying over and over and over again: “It’s not about you.”

Silly Season post 1

Welcome to the Silly Season. This (I hope) series will be about silly things that will hopefully make you smile. Currently the weather here is quite silly for December in Australia.

Stop looking at my Mom

Bugs me to think that our children are introduced to sexual objectification so young by watching it happen to us. But on a positive note, how fantastic is this kid? Here is an interview with Astronomical Kid. (Do not read… Read More ›

Otterday! And Open Thread.

Are you feeling gifty? Or just after a treat for yourself? I went looking for otter stuff this past week, and thought I’d share what I found.[…]

Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.

Discombobulation: How to Stop a Geek in their Tracks

After viewing that image, your geek will be frozen in place, trying to explain all that is wrong with it, while you make a clean getaway.

UPDATE: Apologies to all folks using reader software, I only just realised that I bollixed the image alt tags earlier in the full post.

Summer Spider Blogging

Since summer has begun, to my delight and my partner’s chagrin, our little courtyard has been filled with spiders. Although they are taking up a lot of space on my washing line, I am reluctant to deprive them of the… Read More ›

Breaking rules since 1963

Part of this month’s Blast from the Past reposting program: originally published 2006/02/28. This is just a bit of silliness.

Apparently, even before his birth, my nickname not only broke all the rules of tig but my very existence as a tigtog supports the exploitation of Elijah Wood’s trusting nature.