So finding this glorious little video linked on Shakesville really tickled me. It's set to 'Fuck You' by Lilly Allen and is gloriously non-worksafe and queer. It's really given a lift to my day.

Which was improved upon even further when a phone conversation between Ezekiel and Captain Horatio revealed that we'd all been big fans of Gauntlet back in the day, so after a wee bit of a nostalgic gigglefest, I dug up this rather nice remake and gave it a whirl ... every time I heard 'you have shot the food' I felt like I was seven and sitting in my friend's conservatory playing Nintendo again. If you were a child of the Gauntlet era as well, go check it out. It's passed the virus and malware checker gauntlet and is exceedingly good fun.

Next up, Ezekiel has introduced me to Sarah Haskins and her info-mania spot, Target Woman, where she gives a very amusing and more than a little satirical commentary on a Gillette advert that we'd been discussing that made me look at it a little differently. If you like what she has to say, the link I've given you there turns into a happy little rss feed when plugged into google reader - you know it makes sense.

After all that levity, a quick finish on something serious. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, or DSM, currently in it's 4th edition (or is it 4.5? it's all a bit dungeons and dragons) is currently under review by the great and good so they can figure out which of us they intend to pathologise and why this time. A rather controversial figure named Ray Blanchard (famed for a lot of appallingly shitty and phobic writing about queers of various stripes) is taking a key role in revising the section on Paraphilias, and seems to be trying to brand everything other than PIV/PIA sex between able bodied, cisgendered adults as being a great big filthy peversion. I never liked the man before, and have even less reason to now.

Read more at Why feminists should be concerned with the impending revision of the DSM by Julia Serano on femilisting.