Did you know that most of our linkspam titles come from Oz music lyrics? Trying out this new thing where we share the source.
Onto the links!
Month: July 2016
Second Form at Malory Towers – Chapters 6 and 7
These chapters have more butt action than a Chuck Tingle ebook*, without mentioning bottoms, bums, buttocks or derrieres even once.
* not remotely true, BUT they have more butt action than the rest of Blyton’s entire oevre put together, and Blyton was almost as prolific as Dr Tingle.
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Asian-Australian Self Care
It’s been a hard little while, right? We’ve had to deal with Pauline Hanson, and a whole lot of ugliness, and some gross Islamaphobia right here, normalised in our media, and it’s been hard. It’s still hard.
Sometimes activism gets tiring, and you feel pathetic and useless when you need to take a break. But it’s important. (I had to go on holidays, for a number of reasons; not least because my counselor thought I was burnt out from 24/7 activism)
Sometimes you can’t go on holidays, but you still need to look after yourself.
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museum shops of the world: stasi museum, berlin
Yes, that’s right, I am reviewing the museum shop at the Stasi Museum in Berlin.
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linkspam rock
This is two weeks because Liz didn’t post this last week; she was too busy having fun in the world (legit).
No Award watches Cleverman 1.05 and 1.06
This week on Cleverman, Liz realises that the time difference whilst Steph was travelling meant she couldn’t frantically text her thoughts to Stephanie; Nerida and Linda continue to be smarter and more competent than the men of the family (sadly, we don’t get to see much of Alinta); Blair makes a truly terrible pun; Kora calls Koen an arse; Sloan continues to be deplorably boring and Steph texts ‘wow WOW’ to Liz quite a lot.
Because we had to wait until Steph’s return to Australia to review these, we’re reviewing them together, plus a season overall.
1.05
Liz: Three renowned Indigenous stage actors out of five.
Steph: Three renowned Indigenous stage actors out of five.
1.06
Liz: Three renowned Indigenous stage actors out of five.
Steph: Three and a half renowned Indigenous stage actors out of five.
Reading the Hugos 2016: Novelettes
FUNNY STORY: so I thought I was eligible to vote for the Hugos already, but then I realised that I didn’t have a membership for the current WorldCon. So, a few weeks ago, I bought a supporting membership … for WorldCon 75. You know. Next year’s WorldCon.
But now it’s all sorted, I have a supporting membership to the right con, and more importantly, I have the Hugo packet.
Museum Shops of the World: Museum of Brisbane
Instead of posting last week’s linkspam on Friday, I was in Brisbane, visiting the museum shops of my youth.
Back in the day — which is to say, the early to mid 2000s — the Museum of Brisbane was a funny little museum in a basement below City Hall.
(Steph interjects: a basement in a city that floods is a TERRIBLE place for a museum, Brisbane, wth.)
(Liz adds: City Hall is above the flood zone!)
It contained your standard local history exhibits, covering Indigenous cultures, the convict era and the 1972 floods, but sometimes it also featured totally whackadoo art instalments. My favourite was the film of a guy humping a mud puddle — sans pants — and apologising over and over again to the planet.
My favourite part of the Museum of Brisbane was the shop — in fact, it was the very first museum shop I fell in love with. It carried your usual doodads and whatnots, but it also had local history books that you couldn’t get anywhere else.
I was excited to revisit the museum and its delightful little shop last week.
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Second Form at Malory Towers – Chapter 5
Chapters 6 and 7 make a good pair, so I’m just doing 5 this week — in which Daphne’s less personable side makes an appearance.
Museum shops of the world: Schwules Museum*
Stephanie is still penguining it up in Europe, putting the “world” in “Museum shops of the”. Here, she reports on the Schwules Museum* (the asterisk is part of the name), which is dedicated to “archiving, researching and communicating the history and culture of LGBTIQ communities”.
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