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• Now there’s only love in the dark

  By lauredhel on 2007-08-26 • ( 3 )

  “. . . and on the night of December 11th, the moon was long into the night as though all bloody, and after, it was darkened. Also, on the night of December 16th, the heavens were seen to be as… Read More ›

• Malcolm Turnbull’s environment cred

  By tigtog on 2007-08-26 • ( 2 )

  Helen at Blogger on the Cast Iron Balcony has a nice summary of this week’s brouhaha with the Minister for the Environment reacting badly to criticism from a fellow corporatocrat, Geoff Cousins, about the seemingly fast-tracked approvals process for a… Read More ›

• Race, class, disability, sex; sex, disability, race, class; class, sex, disability, race; getting off the roundabout and meeting in the middle, dizzy as all get-out, but trying to find which way is up

  By lauredhel on 2007-08-26 • ( 5 )

  So. The big ones. Sex, race, disability, class. (Add your own: sexual orientation should be in there, heteronormativity and how that functions, trans issues, religion or lack thereof, lots more.) But I’m on my choice of Big Four today. And… Read More ›

• Weekend Wibble: Fragments of IM

  By lauredhel on 2007-08-25 • ( 7 )

  [following a conversation about soccer teams, in which it was established that Arsenal is the only team for which is it unacceptable to barrack] lauredhel: I watch other TV crap lauredhel: (though rather more deprecated TVcrap than sports, interestingly) tigtog:… Read More ›

• Saturday Stuff.

  By lauredhel on 2007-08-25 • ( 2 )

  What I’m reading: Canada’s Chronicle Herald reports that Jenny Dionne paid a cover charge at her regular bar the Dome, had one drink, then nipped out for a smoke. She was refused re-entry under the “No Fat Chicks” rule. Trendwatching.com… Read More ›

• Friday Hoyden: Dagmar Berne

  By lauredhel on 2007-08-24 • ( 4 )

  [image from National Pioneer Women’s Hall of Fame] As a teenager, Dagmar Berne, of Sydney, was sent by her widowed mother for a “good education” in a private school, Springfield Ladies’ College. The curriculum included such traditional “ladies’ accomplishments” as… Read More ›

• Passive backlash.

  By lauredhel on 2007-08-24 • ( 11 )

  Well, this “Girls Love Pink Cos They Pick Fruit, Fuck, and Have Babies!” study would be a prime example of Why We Need Blogs. I see a lot of whining about bloggers being mere parasites on the underbelly of the… Read More ›

• Well done, Virgil

  By tigtog on 2007-08-24 • ( 1 )

  Chris Henning wrote a humorous piece last week speculating on Wikipedia edit wars between the staff of John Howard and Peter Costello. This week we find that parliamentary staff from the PM’s Department actually have been editing articles of interest… Read More ›

• “No one deserves to go to jail just for being a massive dickhead”

  By tigtog on 2007-08-24

  Comedian Dave Hughes’ latest press release, issued in response to Kyle Sandilands threatening to punch him in the throat in revenge for Hughsie calling him a dickhead on air, even if it means Sandilands going to jail, quoted in full… Read More ›

• The colours of the rainbow…

  By lauredhel on 2007-08-23 • ( 1 )

  Enough of bad news and snark for this week. Have a smile on me. Or rather, on Raymond Crowe and Louis Armstrong. http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/774922/great_shadow_puppetry.swf If the embedded video isn’t working for you – go straight to the video at Metacafe.

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