And the award for Most Predictable And Yet Still Rather Heartwarming News Story Of The Week goes to: Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman’s engagement announcement.

According to the bandwidth fairies, the picture below is the MOST requested one on this site. Have it again, go on. Treat yourselves.

Have a happy life together, Amanda & Neil!

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And, as a special bonus, an audio-only clip of  one of his very early songs, ‘The Gospel According to Tony Day’. Been humming this a lot over the last few days. All the fault of this week’s Patricia Hewitt/Geoff Hoon anti-Brown publicity. It mentions “Pat Hewitt”, see.

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Happy birthday David, you magnificent creature.

David Bowie in 1969

London’s fireworks were pretty spectacular this year. Enjoy!

New Year fireworks at the London Eye

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Here’s my right arm, e’en as I type:

Queenie in plaster

Actually, that was a week ago. But it’s still on there and will be until January.

As luck would have it, I’m right-handed.

Queenie writes like a deranged killer

I’m hoping to be a lot more prolific in the new year, but please bear with me in the meantime. The Twelve Days Of Christmas posts aren’t likely to appear after all. And, despite the poignant banner at the top (which I prepared long before my injury), my friends and family will unfortunately not be getting many hand made gifts (which I didn’t). Buttocks.

Still. Worse things happen at sea and on land. Hope you’re all having a magnificent advent so far. Regale me with festive gaieties whenever the fancy takes you.

What’s that you’re saying, tea leaves?

You predict that Queenie will resort to posting another video with the word Queenie in the title, rather than write a proper post of any consequence?

And yet, despite this slatternly tendency, it’ll still be well worth viewing?

Good heavens. It’s uncanny.

This is a new project and I’m quite excited about it. Here’s what it’s for.

It seemed to me that while there’s often plenty of righteous high profile reaction to mainstream media when they publish racist, homophobic or imperialist articles, sometimes what seems to be pretty virulent hatred of women passes under the radar. Time to redress the balance. And to see the funny side, of course. Laughter is more powerful than polemic.

So Misogyny Watch will point out when the media is guilty of sexism, or gender hate, and link to it so everyone can make their own minds up. And yes, I do realise the Daily Mail trawl alone will take hours.

So far, there’s just a Twitter account, but the blog site will follow soon. I’ll cross-link from here to there, so hope you’ll drop by and say hello when it’s up and running. If you notice an example of anti-woman hatred in any media, please send a link to @MisogynyWatch on Twitter, or email to me at Postculturist for now (official MW email address to follow).

Thanks to everyone who’s supported MW so far too. It’s only a few hours old and we’re already off with a bang. Love and great karma to the retweeters!

Follow MisogynyWatch on Twitter!

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The Canary Wharf security team – or “fake police”, as they’re called here – don’t look happy at all. Particularly when they’re on the receiving end of the hugs.

What freaked me out, while discussing this clip, was the realisation that not only wouldn’t the children have any clue what a great album Hunky Dory is, their parents (my generation) probably wouldn’t either, unless they were particular music fans (like me & my pals).

Because that album came out in 1971, when their GRANDPARENTS were young adults.

*Queenie’s entire world spins off its axis*

Anyway, here it is. I’m not a gooey cheek-tweaking grown up generally, but bless.

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David Bowie - Hunky Dory (1971)

NO, because here’s a new Spotify playlist themed accordingly! See, there’s always an upside.

Click the picture, plug in your headphones and roll around mentally in a pile of imaginary leaves. Careful not to squash any hibernating hedgehogs. You know the drill.

Official Postculturist AUTUMN playlist on Spotify

Tracklisting:

1. Robyn Hitchcock – Autumn Is Your Last Chance
2. Modest Mouse – Autumn Beds
3. Saint Etienne – Suburban Autumn Lieutenant
4. Yo La Tengo – Autumn Sweater
5. The Flaming Lips – My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion
6. The Kinks – Autumn Almanac
7. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Autumn’s Child
8. Lambchop – Autumn’s Vicar
9. Strawbs – Autumn
10. Billie Holiday – Autumn In New York
11. Devendra Banhart – Autumn’s Child
12. The Small Faces – The Autumn Stone
13. Pet Shop Boys – The Samurai in Autumn
14. Donna Summer – Autumn Changes
15. Euros Childs – Autumn Leaves
16. Vashti Bunyan – Autumn Tears
17. Carla Bruni – Autumn
18. The Tiger Lillies – Autumn Leaves

Comments, critiques and “Oh my Christ, I can’t BELIEVE you missed out…” retorts all gratefully received below.