Equal Love Protest

And in my hometown too, nokh ...


From here.

"My Gentle Alpaca"

Love the racial profiling of the bushes! Nice one!



Sad :(

Fighting the Princess Meme

I love you, Sarah Haskins.

Loo-lit of the Month

Money for Gurnischt

Bizarrely I love the original. The intro fires me up like nothing else. And this version does it for me too. I am an unabashed fangrrl of quirky reimaginings.

Enjoy!

Cuban Brothers Do Radiohead

The Beauty of a One-Hit Wonder

... is that you don't have to stick around for the second song!

Art Car Booty

These are what came home with me from the Fair. Mr P is not very happy (I think he's scared of Myra Teresa)but these are for my room, to which Virginia said we were all entitled.

Beer-y Funny

One thing I will miss about N19 is the feeling of being framed by a gaggle of glorious gastro-pubs. Also: I love when the opportunity for a funny is observed and fulfilled - why not be amusing or wry or clever? Why not elicit smiles or chuckles or guffaws? (I love a good guffaw!) Suffice to say, I am a big fan of the microbrewery at the always excellent Junction Tavern.

Shame I can't stand the taste of beer. I am a shitty excuse for an Oy-strine.

Movie Trailer

Thanks to my lovely friend Austin for the link. And congratzel tov on the latest addition ... x

4 Chords

The Axis of Awesome at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, 2009 = Awesome!!

"Has The Metric System Given Your House Cancer?"

Some bright spark has come up with the "Daily Mail-o-matic", a headline generator for the British newspaper that makes me proud to be Australian.

Click "refresh" for the following gems:

"IS NEW LABOUR STEALING FROM YOUR HOUSE?"
"HAS POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IMPREGNATED THE MIDDLE CLASS?"
"IS THE BBC GIVING THE COUNTRYSIDE CANCER?"
"WILL TEENAGE SEX MAKE PENSIONERS OBESE?"

I laugh, but through gritted teeth, with a sad, heavy heart. I get a chance to flick through The Daily Fail at Friday night dinners (that and The Jewish Chronicle: I love MamaInLawlessness Plog but we damn well don't share literary tastes) and those headlines could be - to paraphrase every lazy description of Law and Order - ripped from the headlines.

"The Big Chill" at The Big Chill

Have you seen the '80s film "The Big Chill" (Kevin Kline, Phoebe Cates, Jeff Goldblum)? It centres on a group of friends going through all this heavy psychoshit over a weekend? Well Team Chill - members of the April and Oscar Send Off posse - had many, many memorable moments but instead of angst and drama, we had crazy giggles, messy debauchery and the bloodiest best. time. evah!!!! In fact, from now on, I shall refer to it as Bestival - 'cos it's the best (fest)ival I've ever been to!

The following videos are a bit dumb. Should I remove them? Vote "yes" or "no" in the comment section.

Mom, Meet Emoticon ...

I think I'm going to call my mum.

From here.

Eat Your Heart Out, Ally McBeal ...

Spotted on the Embankment, Monday July 27th 2009.

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I love David Mitchell (his columns in The Observer are laugh-out-loud funny) and Robert Webb, but I love even more when men get on board with recognising inequality as the mishegas it is. The fact is that feminism liberates us all. It is so perverse that we have come to be represented as "man haters" when it is so bleeding obvious that men who are with women who subscribe fully to outmoded restrictive gender roles (which invariably inhibit the development of a fully-realised self) are actually the ones living less than love-filled lives.

And I know we're better in bed. Please. I found my clitoris way before it was fashionable ...

What Does A Hippie Horse Eat?

Hay, man ....

Mrs Slocombe And The Power Of Pussy

Last week on Facefuck ... sorry... book, my friend E's status report had her between a rock and a rock. A mutual friend S offered her a hard place, saying he had a few to spare. I commented (as one does in these forums) that his response was "a bit Mrs Slocombe's pussy". S replied that some days everything feels like Mrs Slocombe's pussy.

I share this anecdote to illustrate the power of the collective reference point and a testimony to the talent of Mollie Sugden, who just passed away, yet whose characterisation was so potent as to remain a euphemism for innuendo decades after Are You Being Served? ended. Also as a little shout out to S, big brother of my good friend L, who shares a very similar pop-culture sensibility with me. I love how connections are made across people and communities for myriad reasons. One that tends to draw me to people is "the funny". So to S and all of you out there - in memory of the Marvellous Mollie - keep bringing it. And do put something funny in today's comment section if you feel so inclined, oh wondrous lurky stars.

xxx

Inverted Violet Heiffer

I'm just on my way to see the fabulous 4 Poofs (again not perjorative - I don't think) when I noticed the directions at the bottom of the ticket.

Trippy!

Mug-nifico!

Introducing ... Dogtor Spock and Miaowy Winehouse!

As a three-cup-a-dayer (coffee that is), mug quality is high up on my list of priorities (shallow wench, aren't I?). These are our two most recent additions. They make me smile every time I look at them.