Let’s just say that this week isn’t happy under the cut, but it is full of compassion and anger both
Year: 2016
No Award watches stuff: Cleverman 1×02
We’ve received feedback saying that it’s sometimes hard to tell whether or not we actually like some of the media we talk about. (In fairness, you can usually tell when we hate something.) So we’re entering a brave new world of giving media points out of five, although, David and Margaret style, Stephanie and I are giving individual points and reserve the right to disagree.
(We also reserve the right to wear fabulous earrings.)
ANYWAY, episode 2 of Cleverman: Jorah Mormont is building an ark, Waruu is a dickhead (but a hot one!), Naked Corpse Lady has clothes now, and there are more women.
Liz’s rating: Four Renowned Indigenous Stage Actors out of Five.
Stephanie’s rating: Four Renowned Indigenous Stage Actors out of Five
24 Terrible Life Lessons from Australian Music of the 90s
Previously on No Award: 53 important life lessons from Australian music of the ’90s
Look, the 90s weren’t all hypercolour and flower hats. We took some terrible things to heart in the 90s, too.
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The linkspam is over
It’s Friday, and that means … linkspam!
And also a scheduling change: thanks to a certain penguin cancelling her presentation at Continuum, Liz will be on the Fandom Drama and Journalism panel at 3 pm on Sunday. (That’s my birthday, so you have to be nice.)
Setting Jane Austen’s cads, bounders and douchebags on fire
Our own post on books we love to re-read has sent me diving into Austen. Again. Specifically David M. Shapard’s annotated editions, which are only US$9.99 on Kindle, and are full of fascinating facts and context and whatnot. I’m quite bummed that the annotated Mansfield Park (my favourite Austen novel, FIGHT ME) isn’t out until next year.
This re-read got me thinking about Austen’s troupe of terrible jerks. Each of her books presents its heroine with a Bad Romantic Option, but they’re all terrible in different ways, and to different degrees. But I think we can all agree that they deserve to be set on fire — the only question is, who do we burn first?
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No Award at Continuum
It’s the Queen’s Birthday this weekend, which means two things:
- It’s also Liz’s birthday (although only on Sunday, despite her ongoing attempts to stretch it out over a weekend and beyond)!
- It’s Continuum!
Liz and Steph are both on panels at Continuum, although sadly not together. Here’s where you’ll find us…
No Award watches stuff: Cleverman
Last week saw the premiere of Cleverman, an Indigenous SF/superhero series airing on the ABC. We at No Award have been very excited for this show; here are some links and feelpinions!
All the linkspam you left behind
Last weekend’s gluten-free, vegan black forest cake pancake stack. No food is featured in this linkspam. Continue reading “All the linkspam you left behind”
#squidlit
Two things No Award loves: squids and literature. So, of course, we combined them!
No Award reads books (over and over again)
One of the things we hear a lot from the YA and Middle Grade authors of our acquaintance is that one of the best things about writing for young people is that they don’t just read a book once. They’ll revisit it again and again, and their reactions to it change as they grow.
It’s been a while since we were part of the young reader demograp
hic, but we still have favourite books or series that we reread — and also works that we used to reread, but have now moved on from. Let’s talk about some of those books…
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