2011 Melbourne Cup thread
It’s that time of year again. Post whatever you like about the Melbourne Cup – tips for Tuesday, anecdotes, trivia, deconstruction, equine sock puppets, fashion advice, hangover cures, etc.
On banning the Burqa
Nicolas Sarkozy wants to ban the Burqa. The French National Assembly looks set to agree. Despite all the blah about ‘Western values’, women in the West also have issues with compulsory sexualised visibility. The claim that this regulation of dress [...]
Brüno: "No big deal, whatever"
“The most famous Austrian since Hitler” When Brüno was released in Australian cinemas it was received less than enthusiastically by a member of the Melbourne queer press. The columnist wasn’t pleased with Sacha Baron Cohen’s turn as an Austrian gay [...]
"Electric Dreams" are not just in the home.
While the format of Electric Dreams is now thoroughly familiar – a modern-day family is placed in a facsimile of some past historical era, and their reactions to it recorded for the camera, this BBC reality show (screening early on [...]
The new Facebook and the New New Face
A couple of signposts from the strange new world we live in, both from New York magazine. Vanessa Grigoriadis offers one of the most insightful analysis pieces I’ve seen on Facebook, asking Do You Own Facebook? Or Does It Own You? Chronicling the backlash [...]
A cuddly bear in a pink tie v. a Commie!
Read all about it over at PollieGraph! Crossposted at LP in exile, where readers may leave comments during LP’s server woes!
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Mel at Footpath Zeitgeist* has a post up about the ethics of fashion: There has been more and more mainstream media coverage lately about issues of ethics in fashion, which is giving consumers this kind of knowledge. Sue Thomas’s opinion [...]
Free your inner Winona
<img src= "http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/freewinona.JPG" According to Yen Magazine, the 90s are back. Or something. (Actually from a bit of shopping recently, I think the 80s are back – skinny knit ties or puffy sleeved dresses, anyone?)… Anyway, since the last time [...]
Tan No More
Never thought I’d be writing a post here based on a conversation with my hairdresser (but then I never thought I’d live to see the Immigration minister openly avowing that African refugees are less welcome here than other kinds or [...]
Lazy Sunday
So, since we don’t live by politix alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all! Mine was much less frenetic than last weekend, and I enjoyed a [...]
What's going down in Melbourne town
If you need further proof that the decade about to be mentioned was the worst ever, have a look at Super Bodies: Heroic Fashion of the 1980s. Showing at the National Gallery of Victoria until 3 February 2008, the small exhibition [...]
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