Archive for April, 2008
April 30 2008: Jingwen’s Competition #3 Winner
The winner of Jingwen’s third competition is Emsz!
As detailed in the original competition post, Emsz will receive a prize pack consisting of “Hollywood Fashion Tape” products, all provided courtesy of a competition I myself won on Missy Confidential.
I must admit that something she told me outside of this competition affected my decision as well. Anyone who can tell me that she gave a very Amanda-esque gift to her mother is bound to be in my good books! Sure, I did mistake her meaning at first and think that she bought her mother a vibrator (!)…but the real gift is so much better! A book of vouchers that entitles her mother to tell Emsz to clean out the shed, clean the house, wash the dishes, do the laundry? Very much full of win!
Congratulations Emsz! Your prize is now in the post - and I’m sure your breasts will thank you for it! For all other entrants - better luck next time! For those who didn’t enter, but who read this blog - the next competition (for a brand new movie DVD!) will be posted at the end of May, so stay tuned!
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April 30 2008: Reviews In Ten Words: April 2008
Non-Fiction
- Greg Behrendt & Liz Tuccillo: He’s Just Not That Into You: Only read if you haven’t fallen into the traps yourself.
- Susannah Fullerton & Anne Harbers (editors): Jane Austen, Antipodean Views: Nice to know that I’m not the only Australian Austenite.
- Rob Gifford - China Road (A Journey Into The Future Of A Rising Power): Following ancient Silk Road, to understand mentality of modern China.
- Pete Jordan - Dishwasher: Antidote to materialism, washing dishes to travel, unencumbered by possessions.
- Kyle MacDonald - One Red Paperclip: Trading story secondary to important advice of believing in oneself.
- Russ Radcliffe (editor) - Best Australian Political Cartoons 2007: Excellent collection of caricatures, no one is exempt from mockery!
- Eva Rice - Who’s Who In Enid Blyton: A trip back to childhood, with pixies, goblins, and Moon-face!
- Jordan Tate - The Contemporary Dictionary of Sexual Euphemisms: Surprisingly stomach-turning for someone crude. Complete with graphic pictures!
- Anna Warwick (editor) - Dating Disasters: Horror date stories makes your life feel that bit rosier.
- Kim Wilson - Tea With Jane Austen: Examination of tea culture in Regency England, with Austen references.
Fiction
- Sam Baker - Fashion Victim: Potential for greatness, but doesn’t live up to ‘thriller’ tag.
- Sophie Gee - The Scandal of the Season: Alexander Pope, renowned poet, in a web of court intrigue.
Movies
- Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008): Hard to feel sympathy for a protagonist who’s a loser.
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April 29 2008: Fedora
Quite possibly the world’s coolest hat, and not just because it has the luck to be worn by me ($9.95AUD at Sportsgirl, Australian’s equivalent of TopShop!).
Fedoras were immortalised in the 1942 film Casablanca, starring none other than Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. I don’t consider myself a romantic, but that film? It makes me cry every time.
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