Hoyden About Town

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• Careful there voters! You can’t return the Boogieman like an unwanted Christmas present, you know! But Unca John can keep your economy safe…why won’t you trust me?

  By tigtog on 2007-11-21 • ( 8 )

  Now our Prime Minister is treating voters like heedless children who simply haven’t thought carefully enough about what change might mean. Mr Howard says there is always a risk with changing Government. And he warns voters flirting with the idea… Read More ›

• So Similar

  By tigtog on 2007-11-20 • ( 3 )

  A draft I’ve had hanging around since last month: I’m trying to get these things out for some discussion even if I haven’t been able to wrap a bow around them to my entire satisfaction. Via Samara at The F-word… Read More ›

• Sagacious Shakespeare & Hoydenalicious Margarita Mayhem

  By tigtog on 2007-11-20

  Assume a hoyden, if you have it not. Which work of Shakespeare was the original quote from? Get your own quotes: Meme yoinked from Lauredhel’s LJ. I spent the weekend overlooking Copacabana Beach on the Central Coast with three of… Read More ›

• From the archives: Kate Harding on cyberbullying as a feminist issue

  By lauredhel on 2007-11-20 • ( 2 )

  An oldie but a goodie revisited: Kate Harding “On Being a No-Name Blogger Using Her Real Name”. It’s hard to pick out the best bits, but here, have two.

• Fetuses and roundworms: more alike than you might think

  By lauredhel on 2007-11-20 • ( 11 )

  [image source] I’ve been following the Feministe thread about a little girl with a parasitic twin. The discussion meandered into a wrangling about whether or not a fetus can be thought about as a parasite. Coincidentally, the BBC now reports… Read More ›

• Nigersaurus taqueti: prehistoric fernmower

  By lauredhel on 2007-11-20 • ( 1 )

  For those of us who grew up in the 1970s, the dinosaur world is barely recognisable nowadays. Remember Brontosaurus? The NYT and Project Exploration detail what is known so far of a newly-discovered dinosaur that roamed Niger back when the… Read More ›

• Greetings from Middle Perth

  By lauredhel on 2007-11-19 • ( 2 )

  From StrangeMaps comes this map of Australia, Middle-Earth style: “One Ring to Rule Them All, Mate”. I forget who once pondered the impossibility of believing Shakespeare spoken in an Australian accent. Maybe it’s the implied anachronism, for in Shakespeare’s time… Read More ›

• So what are you doing tonight at 9pm?

  By tigtog on 2007-11-19 • ( 2 )

  You could do a lot worse than listen to the repeat broadcast of today’s Life Matters Health Report program on Radio National. It was a cracker, taking a different tack in this election period on the traits we all have… Read More ›

• The horror!

  By tigtog on 2007-11-19 • ( 4 )

  Check out Kirk Douglas’ eyes! John Travolta receiving the Santa Barbara Film Festival’s Kirk Douglas award, from 90-year-old Kirk Douglas, at the Four Seasons. 90 years old, and Kirk still can’t live down those beefcake sword and sandal movies! Maybe… Read More ›

• The Costello factor I sincerely believe will cost the Coalition this election (too bad, so sad, cheerio!)

  By tigtog on 2007-11-19 • ( 8 )

  CK sums Costello up over at LP in exile: He always was a gutless wonder. Couldn’t go two rounds with Winnie the Pooh. The most effective Labor ad out there, to my eye, is the one where she talks about… Read More ›

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