December 2011
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Can all school teachers be like this, please?
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed...
September 2011
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Waiting
Waiting for this baby to come. Feeling a bit like this girl in the first minute (the Plum is Harry, natch). I expect the first months to be a bit like what follows.
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Problems with babies & toddlers
Eagerly counting down the days.
reallyreallyreallytrying:
Tiny little fingers and toes
No good bones
All of the bones are very soft & the skeleton quality is poor
Can’t move properly, likely to die in the wild
Colour of the eraser on the end of a pencil (white babies only)
No knowledge at all basically
Legendary smooth butts
Overly proud of butt smoothness, probably
Suffer from...
August 2011
6 posts
It’s not every day someone who sits on the Amazing Babes list comes to town.
Ira Glass has just announced a string of Aus dates for January, including Sydney Festival. Here’s a blog I wrote for them about it (I’m pretty excited).
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Got A Girl Crush: ATTENTION TEENAGE GIRLS WITH... →
gotagirlcrush:
Our crush-dar is peakin’—Tavi’s at it again!
tulletulle:
For a site I am starting in September we are doing a monthly feature called FRIEND CRUSH where you nominate a friend or girl you admire [stalk] from afar from your school/community and talk about how much you love her and we…
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***tumbleweeds***
So things have been slow of late at fyiordie.
i have been in a crazy mess of paperwork trying to finish everything before I jet off to Cambodia & Eli has been doing something far more important and awesome: MAKING A BABY. Yes, a real life little human. (Not yet out in the real world, but incubating in her belly. lucky baby!)
However, I offer the following photo essay celebrating the...
July 2011
12 posts
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Footballers & Rape
My sister wife Karen Pickering has written a great article about the recent Andrew Lovett case on the Vine.com.au
“In the case of Andrew Lovett, we are once again transfixed by the terrible spectacle of another footballer accused of raping a young woman.
That this whole sorry episode is more evidence of a hugely problematic culture within the AFL is clear – binge drinking, abusing...
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When the TV show begins to turn on itself
Malcolm Harris has written a really interesting reverie on the last season of Entourage at The New Inquiry. He manages to pinpoint some of the reasons I slowly edged away from the series over the years. His suggestion that the show is performing a meta reality check for its audience a la Milton’s Satan in Paradise Lost is, while p’haps a mere hopeful...
The New Inquiry: Support Aaron Swartz (please... →
thenewinquiry:
We just learned that Aaron Swartz, a long time friend of The New Inquiry, is facing up to 35 years in prison for his commitment to open knowledge.
Aaron is the visionary behind Reddit, Open Library, watchdog.net and Demand Progress. He is also the author of Raw Thought.
From
Weekly Round Up
Guys. Woah. It has been too long. So long that I feel to anyone who reads this blog I need to let you know - this is not Anna! It’s Eliza! We started this blog exactly a year ago (an incredible coincidence!) as an online salon between the two of us. I am the bad half, here to resurrect my commitment to being better.
So, hey readers. I’m Eliza. And Anna, I hope you’re okay with...
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Bob Ellis is a not relevant to my interests
So yesterday this happened and the internerd collectively let out a loud -stopalreadypls- sigh.
And Bob was all like:
John Birmingham superbly responded with this.
And the world let out a -we’redonehere- sigh.
and moved the fuck on.
There is a fantastic extract from Sophie Cunningham’s essay on the need for a women’s prize in literature (published in the most recent Kill Your Darlings) on the drum website.
The gender differential in every area of the literary world is shocking. Surveys consistently find women read more books than men, especially fiction. As Ian McEwan once put it, “when women stop reading,...
June 2011
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Jonathon Brandis
A couple of years ago I moved into a house and to get to know my housemate a bit better we decided to go get a drink together. While we were at a bar we began discussing teen idols of our youth. (As you do). We soon realised we had both been obsessed with Jonathon Brandis from Sea Quest DSV. Similar interests: new friendship JACK POT.
As we reveled in this new bonding glow we talked about how...
“I think it’s a kind of black cynicism about today’s world that Ellis and certain...”
– SLAM DUNK David Foster Wallace!
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Cinderella ate my daughter
Fantastic excerpt from Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein in the Guardian here. Definitely worth reading, I NEED this book!
Girls’ attraction to pink may seem unavoidable, somehow encoded in their DNA, but according to Jo Paoletti, an associate professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, it’s not. Children weren’t colour-coded at all until the...
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Your weekly basketball news
A guest post by Hon Boey.
I guess the big news of the week is the Dallas Mavericks taking home their first ever Championship ring. But to everyone who doesn’t live in Texas the big news is Shaq calling it quits.
Former Lakers player, Mark Madsen has listed his top 10 Shaqisms, when playing with him in LA:
“There was a cute flight attendant on one...
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How Sassy (Should Have) Changed My Life →
If you subscribed to or even occasionally read Sassy, the teen-girl magazine that existed from 1989 to 1996, then that makes you, approximately, a pro-choice registered Democrat who came of age listening to alternative rock. You grew up on R.E.M., the Smiths, the Cure, Throwing Muses, Sonic Youth, Liz Phair, Hole, Bikini Kill, PJ Harvey, My So-Called Life, and John Hughes. Your romantic ideals...
May 2011
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Your weekly basketball news
A guest post by Hon Boey.
It’s Finals time so all the NBA ballers are on holidays with their wives. Here are some recent tweets from NBA players:
Roy Hibbert: Bout to c Lion King on Broadway. I loved this movie as a kids. I refuse to c cats.
Spencer Hawes: Hangover part 2 was entertaining yet a little disappointing. I’ve decided to see it again to try and catch more the second...
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I heart the internerd
AMAZING article by Jess Stanely here about the INTERWEBS. Get on it!
reading lists
Conor Friedersdorf, associate editor of The Atlantic and all round genius, has listed his (nearly) 100 favourite pieces of fantastic journalism here.
May you never be lacking of something to read again. You’re welcome.
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Fashion on the field
Oh gawd, file this one under “what in the whaaat???” Starting on Wednesday, female badminton players around the world will be forced to wear skirts in upper level competitions in an attempt to gain “popularity” with audiences in the lead up to the London Olympics. Yup, following waning television ratings during competitions it seems that the Badminton World Federation is...
