- Sophie muses on some of the financial demands parents face today.
- Steve wrangles some violent crime stats to assert that domestic violence reporting is up and actual incidence of violent crime is down. (I hope he's right.)
- artandmylife considers the Montana book awards and NZ art books.
- Deborah shares an article on the absurd sexism of British primogeniture, which she wrote for the NZ Republican Movement's newsletter.
- kakariki sees the poster I, errr, posted and raises me a colouring book.
- Dancer looks at the trend for ridiculously skinny male models, emulating their female counterparts.
- Ari covers developments in contraceptives for men.
- Idiot/Savant examines what is wrong with The Listener these days, and roasts them for their sexism.
- Anjum writes about the situation facing liquor store owner Navtej Singh's widow.
- Meganwegan discovers that apparently she is only pretending to be happy and fulfilled.
- The Token Sinner asks whether guitars are the most pretentious musical instrument ever.
- And finally, mmmmm cupcakes.
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Monday, 16 June 2008
The Odds & Ends Drawer
I spy with my little eye...
Thanks for the links! I should have written about all the Montana fiction finalists being woment his year, but there is a whole feminist essay in whether you can or should focus on women artists/writers separately or not
ReplyDeleteI see someone's been reading. :) Thanks!
ReplyDeleteAlso, that colouring book is hilariously cool. :D
Thanks so much for doing this. I wouldn't be able to procrastinate nowhere near as efficiently if it wasn't for the odds and ends drawer!
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks for including RCS too :)
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No problem folks. I really love that colouring book, a friend brought a copy back from her trip to the USA and we both fell about laughing!
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