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Frist!
Second Frist!
Brisbanites of a certain age might vaguely recall the day when <a href=”“Boy George closed Coronation Drive.
Twenty-five years later, 4IP’s studios are now a boutique hotel and Mr O’Dowd is taking a bit of a break from public life
http://theland.farmonline.com.au/news/nationalrural/agribusiness-and-general/general/fourlegged-chicken-freak-of-nature-or-science-askew/1409259.aspx
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http://theland.farmonline.com.au/news/nationalrural/agribusiness-and-general/general/twoheaded-fish-mystery-deepens/1406893.aspx?src=enews
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2 heads on one , four legs on the other – when will we have a EU style review of chemicals used in food production?
Speaking of ‘Frist’. How interesting that CNN (of all outlets! They are not called the ‘Communist news network’ for nothing – in Russia) carry a story laudatory of President Bush.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/15/frist.bush/index.html
Note the author. Frist indeed…
MarkL
Canberra
How surprising that Greg Sheridan wrote a long song of praise to Bush in the OO today,and how surprising that a member of the Israeli Propaganda dept should call CNN the Communist News Network.
Are they trying to be too even handed of the GAZA thing
John Ryan, here’s a friendly tip about propaganda: if you want people to actually believe your ludicrous point of view (and I do mean *your* ludicrous point of view, not “one’s”) it helps if you don’t screech quite so much.
Terangeree,
re yoyur link to Boy George opening the Stereo 10 studios, the link doesn’t work (I think the inverted Commas killed it) I’ve seen this and it’s a time capsule to a time when AM Top 40 radio was king and you could indeed get crowds to a radio station promotion which didn’t involve humiliating the listener, or be as Boorish and Crass like Kyle Sandilands.
For your viewing pleasure
Damn. New computer.
Anyone who’s interested in Liberals with egg on their face, cast your eyes over to SA for a bit. The Libs there may have just lost the seat of Frome to the independent mayor of Port Pirie. Plenty of info over at Poll Bludger, Antony Green’s ABC site, etc.
Also, the world is full of idiots. Actually, make that frightening idiots. America, what a weird and wonderful place…
This is for Pavlov, if you are reading. A little more about the circulation of stereotypes which go uncommented.
If you want a beautiful evocation of the school marm stereotype in all its mysoginist glory, go see Doubt, the movie. I thought Judi Dench had nailed it in Notes on a Scandal, but Meryl gives it such titanic proportions, it threatens to break out of the screen all over the audience. All that red rimmed gothic rage. Although the movie gives its obligatory nod to the subservience of women in the church, I have to agreee with a critic, who thought the movie would have been better off if called “Blood Wimple”.
Heh.
Careful though, Casey. I did indeed once comment en blog on the misogyny of the Judi Dench character stereotype in that film, on a comments thread at someone else’s blog and not as part of any kind of stoush, and immediately got called insane by a well-known and respected fellow blogger. He did not address me directly, of course. But there are all sorts of reasons why these things get left uncommented-on — not least, these cautious days, by me.
Saw the shorts of Doubt yesterday at Slumdog Millionaire, and want to see it if only to watch the two titanic talents of Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman on the screen at the same time.
Oh and Bird of Paradox (fabulous nom de blog there), what excellent news. I was hoping that independent would win it.
That Michael Crook is aptly named, hmmm.
The world is full of mystery. How did my gravatar suddenly reappear, after disappearing for a month or so? Ah. well, I’m glad he’s back. (But my hair’s shorter now, for the moment.)