Interesting piece (yes, very occasionally she does do interesting, is the moon blue tonight or something?) by Michele Hanson, on the Alternative Miss World party, the first of which she participated in in 1972: ' the jolliest, most imaginative, ridiculous, daring and non-competitive competition ever'. And the 12th is happening next month.
The ( Read more... )

Five questions from frankie_ecap:

(1) ( How did you and partner meet and how did you know he was the one? )

Further to my postscript on this post, and additionally stimulated by oyceter's post on a manhwa version of Little Women which does some Rather Odd Things, and my going WTF at the intelligence that someone has been commissioned to write New Pooh (Winnie of that ilk). (OMG: 'Michael Brown, chairman of Pooh Properties, which manages the affairs of the Milne ( Read more... )

I don't know if I've posted this theory before - I can't find it in old posts but the earliest ones aren't tagged. Feel that I may have mentioned it in commenting somewhere.

Anyway, it is my 'What-If' theory:

Supposing Virginia Woolf had actually faked her suicide?

I always think how very lowering it must have been with Leonard and Vanessa sitting ( Read more... )

There seem to have been a number of conversations across my flist during the week about Jo March and her (?un)romantic fate.

There seem to be about as many people who still bear Louisa May Alcott a grudge for not letting Jo marry Laurie OTP 4EVAH! as take the line that Laurie = Lousy Love-rat of whom Jo is well quit (with subset of Amy = sister's- ( Read more... )

Further tributes to Susan Sontag in today's Guardian.

'Mummy track' keeps women from top jobs
Sex and power report reveals female representation in public life is still limited by employers' failure to accommodate family needs.

This is news? I thought it was still a fact of life.

This week's Wisdom's Folly, on the text 'The grass is always ( Read more... )