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How queer is that?
Did some research for Kerry today on queer Melbourne c.1928-1930. One of the pieces I read pointed out that the front of State Library of Victoria has a statue of a naked male and a statue of a cross-dressing woman flanking its main entrance.
(That would be St George and St Joan of Arc)
Never quite thought of it that way before.
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Chop suey piano.
On Kant and abstract art, as a poem.
Lovely tribute to the late Leslie Nielsen from David Zucker.
About the director of the best Star Wars film, who died recently.
Venus Williams shows definite class.
A Thatcher-themed nightclub has opened in London.
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Correcting a truly spectacular typo.
A wonderful parody of science journalism: the comments are brilliant too.
Amusing skit on Green voters.
Media outlets refusing to run an issue of Non Sequitur manage to make the cartoonists’ point.
It’s John Scalzi, he is writing about Atlas Shrugged: enjoy.
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Having fun with Merlin and Arthur
“Void during a black Presidency”: The Daily Show on how the race card is maxed out.
All the Dr Who opening sequences.
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Malcolm McLaren has died.
Lot of interesting post-tv C20th history now available on C-Span.
Islamist group threatens Somali radio stations to stop playing music. Somali hip-hop artists are hitting back with rap.
Following the media trail of a story about a Palestinian teenager not killed by Israeli forces after all (or by anyone else).
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This music video must have been so much fun to set up and do.
We Are The World, Haiti version.
Meanwhile, for anyone who has ever had Tim Winton inflicted upon them, a wonderful, vitriolic spray about Cloudstreet.
Nabokov reviewed Sartre’s Nausea for the NYT. He didn’t like it.
How the history bug has really bitten Tom Hanks.
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Adorable 10 year old humiliates TV host.
Great ad.
Cutesy global singalong.
Jon Stewart suggests the MSNBC anchor may have gone just a little bit too far: and is very very funny while doing it.
If the Superbowl was directed by Quentin Tarantino, David Lynch, Wes Anderson, Jean-Luc Goddard, Werner Herzog.
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A personal remembrance and appreciation of Brittany Murphy.
A scene from The Matrix done as Lego™ stop motion.
A wonderful 70 minute takedown of Phantom Menace.
About an aid charity ad that is wrong on so many levels.
The BBC decides “should homosexuals be killed?’ is a question to put to viewers.
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Orwell on art and having a moral compass
An email correspondent has pointed out to me that Orwell, as usual, says it best:
"One can see how false this is if one extends it to cover ordinary crime. In an age like our own, when the artist is an altogether exceptional person, he must be allowed a certain amount of irresponsibility, just as a pregnant woman is. Still, no one would say that a ( Read more... )
