Friday Links Wants a Touch Screen TV
Tobias Buckell talks about a topic very dear to my heart: Tech and Five Year Olds
Karen Gillan’s Hair will Appear in Star Wars V. Not Karen, just her hair.
The issue of clothes and women in politics is a sticky one – on the one hand, it was frustrating as hell to see former Prime Minister Gillard constantly having her fashion discussed ahead of her policies, and that Prime Minister Abbott’s clothing choices were never policed as closely as those of his daughters. But as this post on departing Governor General Quentin Bryce notes, fashion choices can be a vital political tool for women. And frankly I have also taken quiet pleasure from the sight of her bright and undeniably feminine outfits in a sea of black business suits. What I wasn’t aware of was the degree to which Bryce’s feminism informed her time in office. If we have to have dames in Australia again, she’s a pretty good choice. As long as she also gets a white charger and a lance as part of the ceremonial bumpf. The lady would look good in jousting armour.
The Women’s Prize for Fiction, formerly the Orange Prize, is now the Baileys Prize. Smooth. Very excited to see an Australian crime novel on the list – Burial Rites by Hannah Kent, which the universe keeps telling me I have to read.
Marianne De Pierres has been on a nonstop blog tour for her new futuristic Australian Wild West science fiction novel, Peacemaker. She wrote a guest post here on my blog on the topic of My Female Heroes.
Gwendoline Christie is interviewed – this classy actress is one of my favourite things about Game of Thrones.
Very sad that we lost Sue Townsend this week, a witty and warm writer who captured decades and decades of British life and pop culture references through dark humour with the Adrian Mole diaries. I loved and hated Adrian at the same time – those books were so much not fun to read, while at the same time being incisive and brilliant. I have a soft spot in my heart for her novel The Queen and I, which is an alarmingly post-modern piece of science fiction about a reality that never happened, in the guise of a domestic comedy of manners.
The following video put an idea into my head. An idea of Kristen Bell and Amy Adams co-starring in Harley and Ivy, the musical comedy. I now can literally not think of anything else. Why does this movie not exist already??? It can also be a Broadway show.
