Eat my linkspam
Quinoa, espresso and bruschetta: the foods getting your tongue in a twist:
Has nobody else ever come across the little rhyme 'I asked the girl, in dulcet tone/to order me a buttered scone./The silly fool has been and gone/and ordered me a buttered scone.'?
Also, this piece on Jilly Cooper and changing fashion in bonkbusting, reminds me that in her book on class she claimed that there were people who might be quite wealthy but were overcome with cultural shame at the fear of going to some upmarket restaurant and committing mispronounciation. As for that article, I am really, really shocked that in one of Cooper's novels that I haven't read (because I'm sure I must have read at least a couple back in the day), some woman leaves her posh husband because he is not into BDSM - wot! a public school product that is not into le vice anglais? how can this even be? I can only suppose that the subtext is that he is the bottom and she is fed up of always wielding the lash.
Come to the poncey post-modern fairground with amusing retro touches: Margate's Dreamland rises from the ashes. Does one not feel that shortly after an accident involving latest state of the art fairground rides it might be inadvisable to position this, 'the Scenic Railway, a majestic wooden rollercoaster built in 1920 and all but destroyed by arson in 2008' as the 'crowning glory of the park'?
A foundational figure in my own culinary development: Marguerite Patten - my extremely battered and well-used copy of her Every Day Cook Book is still on my kitchen shelves.
Is Jurassic World sexist? Assessing the film's key females of the species. Query: is it a Bechdel Pass if this involves dinosaurs?
Depressing piece on domestic abuse of women in Russia: this is particularly depressing as I've recently been looking at some of Mitchison's writing in which she explicitly mentions 1930s Soviet poster campaigns against the attitude that it's appropriate and even to do with love. This entry was originally posted at http://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2291352.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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