3 things that made me go aaaaargh in the paper today...

[oursin]

The new pink pound: The tweenage mag market is growing ever stronger on a diet of princesses, ponies, pals and puzzles. Aaaaaaargh! The pink! The pink! The sparkles! Aaaaaaaaaaaaargh!

Well, I sort of knew this already: the press, sceptical about anything politicians say or do, becomes credulous when faced with medicine. Boy do they become credulous.

And if anyone can explain to me exactly what Germaine is getting at in today's column, I shall be grateful. Brayne haz dumb from the headline A muse's job is to penetrate the male artist and bring forth a work from the womb of his mind onwards.

And on a lighter and less fraught headbanging note, Nancy Sinatra wishes she had been a bad girl: well, the boots song, 'I just wonder did you ever...' and 'Summer Wine' certainly gave everyone who listened to them that impression (in the very best of ways), no?

Comments

[tudorpot.livejournal.com]

A muse's job is to penetrate the male artist and bring forth a work from the womb of his mind onwards. cringes- I don't want to know what she was thinking.

[parthenia14.livejournal.com]

If it's any comfort - it probably isn't - little P. buys those magazines, entirely on the strength of the gift glued to the outside.

Today, she bought Scooby-Doo magazine on the strength of it having a free werewolf paw (brown glove with talons and fake fur). ^^

[dickon-edwards.livejournal.com]

"A muse's job is to penetrate the male artist and bring forth a work from the womb of his mind."

That's possibly the most cumbersome and inelegant article title I've ever seen.

[oursin.livejournal.com]

It approaches being Non-Work Safe as an image!

[shrewreader.livejournal.com]

On a scale of 1 - 20, how pathetic is it that I went googling the Daily Mail article about a pill that makes you feel full immediately?

Answer, btw, is that they were looking for a treatment for Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, and 32% of the patients on the med (all with Parkinson's and Alzheimer's) lost 5% or more of their weight over 14 weeks. Now, granted, that's pretty good for just a pill -- but the prerequisite of 'fatal neurological disease' is a bit much for me to consider it. I'll go get on my bike, thanks.

[tree_and_leaf]

What on earth is GG on? It makes The White Godess look sensible!

Particular head-desking for the comment about Dante and Beatrice, given that - even assuming we can accept what he tells us about her at face value - he seems to have spent a maximum of half an hour in her company, at least in adulthood, and, rather obviously, her death failed to stop him writing...