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  • National Leftovers Day

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    What to do with the food that’s still in the fridge on Boxing Day? Too much of it these days tends to get thrown out after the gathering is over because it’s too much to get through before it goes off, and that’s a terrible waste.

  • Xmas open thread

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    Feel free to talk services, observances, decorations, rushing, shopping, gifts, surprises, feasting and family traditions heart-warming and otherwise. If anyone making other seasonal observances wants to join the thread, please do.

  • Quick, Late Friday-Now-Saturday Hoyden courtesy of my crashing internet connection: Saint Lucy

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    Group of girls holding candles, one at the front wearing a candle crown.

    Saint Lucy’s Day is celebrated throughout Scandinavia, particularly in Sweden, and is a very special marker in the lead-up to Christmas. It is traditionally celebrated by the young girls of the town walking in procession wearing white dresses with red sashes and carrying lighted candles. The eldest wears a crown of candles to represent the saint herself.

  • Doctor Who 2013 Xmas Special Thread

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    The Doctor and Clara are standing in snow at what looks like the mouth of a cave. The Doctor is holding the head of a Cyberman, behind them we see an intact Cyberman, a Dalek, a Weeping Angel, one of The Silence, and many more figures, weapons and spacecraft in the background which are not clearly distinguishable. There are many high-powered beams looking dangerous too.

    Australian Whovian tragics don’t get an early (ie only a few hours after the UK) peek this year. We have to wait for 7:30pm on Boxing Day like any old muggle! How on earth will we manage?

  • Otterday! And Open Thread

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    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?

  • Today in White Privilege: Intent, Noticing, Examining

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    Nothing induces more rage in others than your taking what you do not deserve and not even noticing.

  • Time to End the Valorisation of Ignorance

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    The federal government is quite open about its plans to interfere with the independence of academic research, and to shut down according to its whim any research they fancy that falls outside a narrow selection of medicine and technology projects. I hope the only reason that this hasn’t been howled down instantly is that we haven’t yet processed what this really means.

  • Media Circus: Abbott’s Xmas gifts to the nation edition

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    Photo of Australian Parliament House (APH) in Canberra

    If it looks like us pesky citizens might demand a say in what will happen to our country, the Abbott Government’s response is to simply stop the flow of information.

    What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?

  • The #NotYourAsianSidekick conversation

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    Watching the white supremacists try to derail the conversation with the #AsianPrivilege hashtag and by coopting the Shoah has been infuriating.

  • Wendy and Peter Pan and the RSC

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    Against the background of a starry sky, a girl stands on a window ledge looking excited to see the silhouette of a boy floating in mid-air surrounded by bright light.

    Hands up who knew (or at least now remembers that they once knew) that the original play (and subsequent novelisation) by J.M. Barrie was titled “Peter Pan And Wendy” rather than just the “Peter Pan” that current publications and productions favour?