We've been Simpsons-ised

Dann

This is a pretty cool way to promote The Simpsons movie...even if the caricatures don't look ANYTHING like me or Helen.
Try it yourself at http://www.simpsonizeme.com/index.php.

Helen

REVIEW: ollyollyoxenfree! #3

Subtitled, "A DIY game zine", this is a nifty collection (A6, 28 pages) of instructions for fun games for kids and adults who want to be kids, submitted by a variety of folk. Most of them I was not familiar with - Acorn!, Deathbox, Finger Baseball, Punk Like Crazy - but they all seem like the sorta games (and variations there-of) bored kids devised on hot summer afternoons during school holidays. Do young people today still play these games? Or do they all sit at home and play with their Xbox and Wii?

Will my baby Jones want to play games like Hopskotch and Red Rover when she gets older? Has this childhood magic gone forever?

Not if ollyollyoxenfree! has anything to do with it.

If you want to order this issue (or future issues or back issues), e-mail Cheyenne and Shakes at skirtfrompants@yahoo.com or write to them at: 127 Pope Street, Louisville, KY, 40206, USA. It's only US$1 (or trade) per ish. Make it US$3 if you're from overseas.

Ten pioneers of striptease

Blaze Starr

THESE clothes-shedding legends paved the way so women in 2007 could do dildo/lesbian bucks' shows on the Gold Coast or shoot ping-pong balls out of their vaginas in Bangkok. Huzzah!

The full story is at www.yesbutnobutyes.com/archives/2005/10/ten_pioneers_of.html.

Stephen Colbert's Tek Jansen

I AM sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo buying this. :D
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20043846,00.html

Stan Zemanek (1947-2007)

I TRY to avoid cliches, but.....................

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Brave new world...?

WHILE walking through Church Street Mall in Parramatta the other week, a gentleman handed me this leaflet published by the Jehovah's Witnesses.

Nice illustration, by the way.

However, I don't know whether I really want to be part of a "peaceful new world" where idiots allow their children to feed grizzly bears and pat lions.

Call me crazy but that strikes me as a bit irresponsible on the parents' part.