I’ve had a bit of a lost week – one of those achey-breaky ‘flus with sore eyes meaning ‘puter time is not restful but is rather ennervating, so I’ve just been sleeping it off and makin sure I get the… Read More ›
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Belatedly jumping on a White bandwagon
The lovely and talented Laura, over at Sarsaparilla, took a flensing scalpel to those silly sausages and their Patrick White stunt over at The Australian. She has challenged readers to show them what’s what by reading and enjoying a Patrick… Read More ›
Landmark
In a few weeks’ time, Voyager 1 will be 100 AU from the Sun. (An AU, or Astronomical Unit, is the distance from Earth to the Sun). Voyager was launched nearly 29 years ago. Voyager 1 has flown by Jupiter… Read More ›
Weekend flashback: 70s scifi boots
This is a shot from the 1974 John Boorman directed film Zardoz, which is apparently an achievement in the annals of bad cinema surpassed only by such dys-masterpieces as Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and the Ed Wood ouvre. I… Read More ›
Go there
Jill at Feministe on anti-abortion extremism and disingenuous rhetoric. Long but compelling. Barista looks at the Israel-Hezbollah-Lebanon situation and the Australian reaction. Echidne of the Snakes examines the partisan demonisation of secularism in the USA. Blogger on the Cast-Iron Balcony… Read More ›
We’re doing it all ourselves, y’know
I got a bit ranty in a comments thread over at LP today, but managed to epitomise some arguments much better than I often manage to do, so I thought I’d excerpt them over here as well. The blockquotes are… Read More ›
zuzu gave me a present
A mondegreened earworm. From the 70s. Gee, ta ever so. All right. Sydney physio vs NYC lawyer earworm deathmatch. It may not come close to the overwhelming retrokitsch of the ‘06 YouTube Wars, but if you don’t want to go… Read More ›
Don’t say feminists never want men to have fun
Amanda at Pandagon, in a comments thread about sex-positivity, strawfeminists and anti-feminists, casually mentioned that some men can be multi-orgasmic, just like many women can train themselves to be. How? With pelvic floor exercises (aka Kegel exercises). As a physio,… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 