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• Thursday Cheezburger

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-17 • ( 1 )

  [This week’s runner-up.]

• Highlights from the Hierarchy for WYD

  By tigtog on 2008-07-17 • ( 6 )

  Shorter Cardinal Pell: If you agree to a candlelight dinner then you’re just asking for it, aren’t you? How could sex later be rape? [link] Shorter Cardinal Pell: It’s totally OK to tell a clerical abuse complainant that they’re the… Read More ›

• “I looked into the blacks of his eyes”? Big Brother 10

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-16 • ( 2 )

  I’m not planning to blog as much Big Brother 10 from the USA as much as I do the Australian and UK versions, I swear. For a start, the USAn version is populated much more by fifth-rate Hollywood wannabes. In… Read More ›

• Child rape victims are just cranky, says Bishop

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-16 • ( 17 )

  My jaw just hit the floor. Around the Catholic “World Youth Day” week in Sydney roils much discussion of Church-sanctioned child rape and sexual abuse. Bishop Anthony Fisher is rather pissed off that some people aren’t concentrating on the things… Read More ›

• Women’s bodies – pwned public space

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-16 • ( 27 )

  So this post by cowardly asshat voyeur Nicu Buculei[1], a 35 year old man from Romania, was on Planet Fedora the other day, and was up for a while before being pulled down. I’m not going to reproduce the image… Read More ›

• Spoiler thread: DWS4 finale

  By tigtog on 2008-07-16 • ( 27 )

  Just to contain any spillover from today’s Whoydensday post, which will remain spoiler-free. *Begin Spoiler Space* *Don’t click if you are avoiding spoilers for Season 4 and especially the finale* *Torchwood S2 too*

• Whoydensday: Aware of all Internet Traditions

  By tigtog on 2008-07-16 • ( 10 )

  Simply because it’s been a whole month of all-encompassing internet traditions now (here’s a short explanation), and I’m angling to be featured on the blog. Although I carefully made it very non-revelatory – (obviously something is happening to Donna, but… Read More ›

• Whedon’s “Dr Horrible” fizzles for international audience

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-15 • ( 4 )

  I was a little excited when Tama Leaver mentioned the other day that Joss Whedon’s new project, a musical miniseries called “Dr Horrible’s Singalong Blog“, was going to be a free internet-only premiere. “An experiment in models of distribution and… Read More ›

• Ben had a Bad Day: Schadenfreude and the Big Brother Australia “Big Sting” farce

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-15 • ( 1 )

  So who caught Big Brother: The Big Sting last night? The show that went to air could have been edited to half the size, but it was still comedy gold for anyone keen on a bit of Ben-and-Rory schadenfreude. For… Read More ›

• The difference between satire and “satire” in political humour

  By lauredhel on 2008-07-15 • ( 7 )

  I’d like to compare and contrast two political images, both of which inspired comment wank. The first is from the Western Suburbs Weekly [1]. The second is a Bush macro from Pundit Kitchen [2]. The Bush macro is is classic… Read More ›

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