Terrible, isn’t this? Women squeezing themselves into 18th century-style corset gowns to make their waists appear smaller.
The result, boobage overflowing at the top of the dress. The term “Squoobs” has been coined to describe this, short for “squashed boobs”. Looks fine to me, but I’d imagine its damn uncomfortable.
And just for good measure, here’s another one of Christina Hendricks.
Is it just me, or is she looking a bit lopsided?
I’m listening to Hunters & Collectors – Tender
I found this after watching a repeat of the miniseries “Answered by Fire” on ABC TV a couple of weeks back. This was a pretty decent program about the vote for independence in East Timor in 1999, and starred Australian actor David Wenham and Canadian actress Isabelle Blais.
Knowing nothing about Isabelle Blais, I googled her, and found that as well as being a very good actor, she also sings in a band called Caiman Fu.
I think this is a pretty decent song, for one or more of these reasons:
I’ve never really watched more than about 10 minutes of “Dancing with the Stars”, but it seems the Australian version is very tame compared to what they get in other countries.
For instance, in Argentina, it’s basically porn. Cinthia Fernandez in a recent episode starts the dance off in a racy outfit with her toga-clad partner. It’s some sort of Roman orgy scene, but with only two people. What follows is less of a dance and more of a mutual strip tease, where Fernandez and her partner pull off each others clothes revealing skimpier and skimpier outfits while they writhe and contort around the stage. By the time she is grinding in his lap while he pours wine over her naked body she’s only wearing a G-string and he’s in his Speedos , then finally he whips off her panties and she is standing there, on national television, completely naked. (For your viewing pleasure, this link has a video of the “dance” – you probably shouldn’t watch it if you’re at work).
Then we have the US version, with accidental nipple exposure, and shock, horror, a fart!
Why is ours so boring, then?
How fantastic is this? I first heard of The Ship Song Project during the last week. This is one of my favourite songs ever, and this treatment of it, and this video, are just wonderful.
Went to Sydney and back today to see “Mary Poppins” at the Capitol Theatre. Didn’t actually plan to go until yesterday – I was a late substitute for my wife who couldn’t go (with my daughter and niece). Even though it wasn’t really a show I’d normally choose to go see, I enjoyed it very much, and it was a high quality production.
If you don’t want to be mocked for being a bogan, don’t act like one.
SBS TV is making a series which is obviously a bit too close to home for some of the fine residents of Mt Druitt, in Sydney’s western suburbs. Called “Housos”, it is about the lives of housing commission residents living the suburban nightmare.
This week residents from a Department of Housing block in western Sydney got thousands of signatures on a petition calling on SBS to abandon the series. Local MP Richard Amery, who presented the petition in Parliament last week, said the series would ”deride decent people”. They also had federal member of Parliament, Ed Husic, on the case:
”Everyone likes a laugh but Housos seems to be labelling a particular type of person in a particular type of way and making fun of a situation they are in,’
Well, they are bogans, and if we can’t deride them, who can we? We have to have our little victories now, before the bogans take over.
You know you’re a bogan if you let your 15-year-old daughter smoke at the dinner table – in front of her kids.
That’s what I’d be thinking if I was Barack Obama and got the ipod of Australian music that Julia Gillard gave him. Zap, delete most of the songs and fill it up with some decent music.
Keepers as far as I’m concerned:
Ditch the rest, Barack.
I missed seeing The New Pornographers this time they’ve been in Australia – why don’t good bands ever come to Canberra? However, it seems like they had some fun with an audience member in Melbourne, joining them on stage to sing one of their songs, “Myriad Harbour”.
This is really awesome!
Well done, Andrew.
I have no idea whether Nicole Richie is a nice woman, or not. Nor do I have any clue what she is actually famous for. I mean what has she actually done except be friends with Paris Hilton (another of those famous for being famous people who are famous for doing what exactly?).
However, I see she was in Sydney last week, at the launch of a shopping centre, MidCity. Reportedly she was paid a $200,000 fee for this, plus a whole swag of goodies, first class fares to Australia and her hotel suite which brought the total cost of her visit to around $300,000. Nice work if you can get it I suppose.
Myself, I think its a sad reflection on our society, and the cult of celebrity that someone would see spending this sort of money on a B-grade celebrity with little in the way of actual achievements to justify her celebrity status, as worthwhile. Nevertheless, MidCity project manager Sam Sproats said the co-owners were "absolutely chuffed" with the results.
"The whole thing has been fantastic and we’ve got far more in PR value than we expected,"
Mr Sproats said. Its also rather sad that quite a crowd turned out to see her. To them I’d say save your hero worship for someone worthwhile.
Went to see “Kick Ass” at the movies today. Loved it. What totally made it was Hit Girl – an 11 year old girl who kills bad guys … its just so compellingly weird.
Violence plus – yep. Crude language – yep. Smut – yep. Great fun – sure!