The sixth season of Celebrity Big Brother UK is underway.
Rapper, self-confessed “shit-stirrer”, and supremely annoying fuckknuckle Coolio, who has been engaged in a prolonged campaign of sexual harassment against Ben and Michelle, is the one getting on my wick the most.
This article from Cliqueclack, “The 15 most kickass women on television“, gets it pretty close to right, I reckon, in content if not in order.
Friday Hoyden: Candice Bergen
Why do I have Bergen pegged as a Hoyden? The characters she has played on television does bust submissive femininity norms, so that’s part of it. But I think it’s her bad singing that has really reeled me in. It’s hard enough to sing in public when you can hold a tune, but it takes a special kind of hoydenish chutzpah to do it when you can’t. And I like that.
This, THIS is why I love Dexter. [Swearing, no violence, subplot spoiler for season 3, ep 12.]
The rumour mill seems to be spitting out a fairly uniform product this week: that Paterson Joseph will be the eleventh Doctor. (If you’re sick of next Doctor speculation, check out io9’s 45 coolest moments in Doctor Who history instead)…. Read More ›
Monty Python and Led Zeppelin have decided to make high definition recordings of their most popular material available on YouTube. Python seem to be reaping the rewards in a boost to their DVD sales, because as their introductory clip below… Read More ›
Yes, the promised Children in Need trailer for the Christmas special (titled The Next Doctor with a trademark Rusty tease) aired this week.
The creator says: we are going to run down through 20 of what we believe are the best lines from all four seires of doctor who starting with series one… Enjoy Did they get all your favourites? Or should they… Read More ›
The work this must have taken! Forty-five years of Doctor Who summed up by one phrase. This was a birthday present I made for my friend’s 40th in 2005. We have a long-running in-joke about the phrase “What are you… Read More ›
Research casts doubt on ‘obesity epidemic’ New government research shows that levels of childhood obesity have remained largely unchanged for the past decade. For the first time since the mid 1990s, government scientists asked a large number of Australian children… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 