The next time I go to the UK and France I’d rather like to do a tour of various stone circles, menhirs, dolmens – any megaliths really – of Britain and Brittany.
myth/legend
Friday Hoyden: Scout Finch
Mary Badham as Scout Finch in the 1964 film of To Kill A Mockingbird I only read TKAM last year, after having had it on my “must read” list for yonks. I thought Scout was utterly fabulous, totally relating to… Read More ›
Sigh
(Now crossposted at Feministe – I’m guest-blogging there this week. Thanks, Jill!) 10 points to Indian journalist Saira Kurup for debunking the myth of bra-burning feminists as part of a column about the history of the bra. -100 points for… Read More ›
Friday Fun – “Museum” edition
aka When is a museum actually a theme park? Here it is: the Ken Ham’s Creation “Museum” post that Hoyden had to have, made much easier by the recent spate of LOLCreationists online. Image Credit: Dancing Spring PZ Myers put… Read More ›
Previously Unknown Phenomenon
This is the container of leftover sausages I put away in the frig last night. This morning when I woke up and went to the frig for milk, not a single one of those sausages had been eaten. What can… Read More ›
Karen PWN!S! TEH n00bs
Karen Healey of Girls Read Comics and They’re Pissed riffed off Lauredhel’s Anti-Feminist Bingo Card and created an Anti-Comics-Feminist Bingo Card. Apparently some fanboyz have been having a whinge at her about it, so she has called forth the mighty… Read More ›
Wotcher, orright?
Which God or Goddess are you like? Your Result: God Zeus You are Zeus. You are fierce and stong, and you like to throw lightning bolts at people who deserve it. You are fearless when it comes to fear,… Read More ›
xkcd pwns teh internets
I don’t know why any of us are even bothering to pretend that xkcd is not our new insect overlord (except for Cory Doctorow, who escaped in that bloody balloon). Excuse me. I have to go and save that map,… Read More ›
Weekend Wibbling: From Peri to Fraggles
Don’t ask me why, but I’ve been contemplating fairy mythology in kidlit and TV, specifically fairy proxies like The Fraggles and The Borrowers. This idea – that there is a whole world of tiny, wise and/or mischievous creatures, that are… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 