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• Sunday Singalong: Alabama Shakes

  By Helen on 2012-04-29 • ( 9 )

  

  How much do I love this sensational new band from Athens, Alabama (soon to join Athens, Georgia in indie-rock iconography)? How much do I love their singer, Brittany Howard? Let me count the ways.

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2012-04-28 • ( 25 )

  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?

• Quick Hit – Warrior Princesses

  By Mindy on 2012-04-27 • ( 4 )

  

  Sure I’ll wear a ‘tiara’ what weapons does it have?

• Friday Hoyden: Joanna Russ

  By Guest Poster on 2012-04-27 • ( 3 )

  

  Guest post from Tansy Rayner Roberts: Joanna Russ is one of the mighty legends of the science fiction field that everyone needs to know about. As well as writing many important novels and short stories, she was a brutal literary critic, a brilliant academic, an unflinching feminist, and a devastatingly articulate commentator on gender, not only in science fiction but in the history of culture.

• Today in Essentialist Claptrap

  By tigtog on 2012-04-27 • ( 2 )

  

  The footage showed the Duchess making happy faces at a baby and stroking ou’s head while ou was being held by the father, while the Duke was shown holding a baby and chatting with onlookers, yet the commentary was about how “Kate” was showing her natural motherly side. Which one of them was actually shown as being relaxed and comfortable holding a baby again?

• Glad they haven’t seen my place

  By Mindy on 2012-04-26 • ( 10 )

  

  These photos do not say what you want them to say.

• My rant on The Hunger Games

  By Guest Poster on 2012-04-24 • ( 22 )

  

  Here be SPOILERS!!!

  I’m interested in addressing it as an instance of popular culture that again has kids tearing through books, hungry for more, at the controversy and ‘moral panic’ that it seems to be creating, and in looking at the elements of what, for me, made it something out of the league of the ‘Twilights’ of the world.

• Who’st the jackanapes who failed to sweetly convey the imminent dawning of Talk Like Shakespeare Day, that I might more timely partake of such delights that roll most trippingly off the tongue?

  By tigtog on 2012-04-23 • ( 1 )

  

  It’s splitting from the nave to the chops time!

  Actually, I’d rather watch this collection of fine videos from the Talk Like Shakespeare Day website.

• Numbers in the House

  By tigtog on 2012-04-23 • ( 2 )

  

  Speculation abounds as to whether the Gillard minority government will have the numbers on the House floor to pass the Budget on May 8 without Peter Slipper’s vote, especially since Andrew Wilkie remains rather miffed.

• How turning voters off politics helps US pollies get elected – will it work in Australia too?

  By tigtog on 2012-04-23 • ( 2 )

  

  Intriguing analysis in this post from Steven Pearlstein in the Washington Post, although Jay Rosen notes that he doesn’t cover the complementary role played in this game by the news media playing up the confected outrage.

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