I would love to see Verka Serdyuchka vs Dame Edna Everage in a Eurovision comedy drag showdown. Inspired by the BBC on Ukraine’s Eurovision entry.
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From the Age’s Odd Spot for Saturday March 31, 2007 (basically it doesn’t want to work but look for the entry on bogans).
It’s so unfair, why can’t we have this in London?
Horror film fans dressed up to look like an army of the undead have been stomping the streets of Brisbane, Australia, in an annual Zombie Walk.
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More from the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival:
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This is really hard to review, partly because it’s part of a PhD thesis and in some ways is quite a personal project, and partly because it’s so London/Wotever-centric. It still feels like a work in progress. I think it must be very difficult to edit a film you’ve made with/about your friends, and within those constraints it’s a good film; but without those constraints it might have been a better film. But I really liked it as an experimental or exploratory film, and I liked it as a showcase for Club Wotever. It had lots of interesting ideas and I could imagine some of them being made into more focussed short films.
(I abuse the word ‘really’ almost as much as I abuse the word ‘lovely’. And Bar Wotever afterwards was lots of fun and I didn’t even have a hangover the next day.)
Without knowing much about him I’ve always had a bit of an intellectual crush on Issey Miyake.
Toadzilla. Be very afraid.
“Word-of-mouth marketing, the latest advertising boom in the US, is coming to Britain”, says, the BBC.
That thing about the Portuguese discovering Australia is in the news again: “A 16th century maritime map in a Los Angeles library vault proves that Portuguese adventurers, not British or Dutch, were the first Europeans to discover Australia, says a new book which details the secret discovery of Australia.” Map proves Portuguese discovered Australia: new book
Also from the BBC: “The woman who invented the modern incarnation of Mother’s Day was so distressed by its commercialisation that she tried to copyright the date to protect her idea.”
According to the BBC: “Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister were written not only to entertain but to promote the idea that working for a unified public interest was a myth – as argued by Margaret Thatcher’s favourite theorist, James Buchanan.”