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I have taken up pilates.
God, my fucking abs. My arse. Oh god.
Here are all the thoughts
By dogpossum On 13th January, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In lindy hop and other dances, music, people i know, running, teaching, wimminz
This is a journal type blog entry, rather than a cleverly developed argument or discussion. Because I just can’t be fucked.
I went to see Tuba Skinny again last night and stayed up too late and it was all fun. Except I got quite tired by the end because I had had a [...]
January round up
By dogpossum On 11th January, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In academia, c25k, djing, fitness, ideas, lindy hop and other dances, menz, music, people i know, running, speakeasy, swimming, wimminz
(photo of Mary Lou Williams, extremely awesome woman pianist, who fucking PWND the fairly dick-centred boogiewoogie piano world, from here. She was all about OWNING the discourse.)
I’m back running, desperate to get some serious exercise during the christmas dancing drought. So far it’s going well, except today I did run [...]
gender is a social construction, originally uploaded by dogpossum.
Now I know why the physio told me not to worry about the fact that the little figures in my exercise diagrams were all men. ->
-> he was trying to tell me that gender is [...]
Link round up: competition and lindy hop
By dogpossum On 14th November, 2011 · 1 Comment · In bugs questions, fitness, lindy hop and other dances, music
Giselle Anguizola & Chance Bushman vs. Hyunjung Choi & Soochan Lee, ULHS 2011 prelims
I don’t have time/brain to make this a proper story right now, but there are some interesting bits and pieces about judging dance comps floating about at the moment:
Bug’s Question of the Day (on FB), Friday 11 [...]
(Try To) Write About Jazz
By dogpossum On 1st November, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In academia, article ideas, books, djing, domesticity, fitness, learning, lindy hop and other dances, menz, music, research, thesis, wimminz
(Photo of Amiri Baraka by Pat A. Robinson, stoled from here).
Long time no post. I’ve been busy with a few different projects lately, most of them impeded by vast quantities of randomly-generated anxiety. I’m bossing some DJs for MLX11, I’m bossing some DJs locally, I’m sorting some solo dance practices, [...]
Another reminder that green/feminist movements are as marked by gender and class as right wing politics…
I’m seeing correlations between slutwalk discourse and this little trail of articles dealing with race/food politics/gardening/environmentalism/cycling. While I’m fascinated by discussions of food and health and environmentalism as a socialist project, for a while now I’ve had a little [...]
Fuck that shit. I’m not wearing no fucking high heeled shoes.
By dogpossum On 5th April, 2011 · 10 Comments · In fitness, lindy hop and other dances, lolfrankie, wimminz
[EDIT: this is a post responding to a series of arguments provoked by Sarah's post. Some she makes herself, some have been made by other people.
EDIT no2: if you're just new here (and I'm suddenly getting a lot of traffic), you might be interested in reading about my general philosophy of following
My attention was caught yesterday by a thread on Yehoodi about a blog post by Sarah Breck titled Why women should wear heels. Sarah took down the original post and replaced it with another, but I’ve just had another look and seen that the post is back up again. My post, here, is [...]
Hans Monderman
did away with traffic lights,
made people negotiate
and
prevented accidents.
Hans monderman.
Shared space Wonderman.
