Posts tagged: The Danish Girl

Every little landslide, Catch it in my hand

By Weasel, March 5, 2009 3:17 am



Our bijou little den of sin and iniqity is a house of plague this week, we're beginning to consider painting a red cross on the door and having done with it. A crackly throat last wednesday turned into full on oogle bloogle blarg *collapse* for this Weasel when the weekend came and shortly after that it felled Ezekiel too. We are wobbling along in our own little way this week (a little lopsided and not particularly fast) and putting ourselves back together. I've got my fingers crossed that I'll be back in one piece myself by this weekend, there is an Ezekiel to look after, things that need doing here and at work and all kinds of shenannigans I could be shenanning.

The monsterous piece of sparklebunny electro from Little Boots in the youtube video at the top of this post has been helping with things immensely, I swear :) . The news that Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron are starring together in 'The Danish Girl', a movie about Lili Elbe and her wife Gerda Wegener also has me more than a little delighted. Follow this link for some excited commentary at Dorothy Surrenders and some deliciously nsfw examples of Gerda Wegener's art.

In less frivulous matters, I've been doing a lot of reading around recently after reviewing the Analysis 'Breast Screening: the facts-or maybe not' in the BMJ, the open letter from various uk medical professionals published in the times and Sandy's commentary on the whole thing at Junk Food Science. Leaving aside my obvious personal interest in this in the first place, I teld to look doubly close at anything in this area because some of the medicines I take do moderately alarming things to my long term risk of developing breast cancer. Two of the more fun and interesting things I stumbled across were some advice on Breast Massage to promote lymph flow and general health which I've been having a go at and certainly have no objections to continuing with whatever the benefits and the Anti-Bra website, dedicated to encouraging all of us to go unrestrained whenever practical for health reasons, which I am lucky enough to also have no issues with except when I'm exercising. It's nice to have a couple of things that seem to reduce your risk of cancer not be attached to an alt health quack with a dubious supplement for once :) .

But now 'tis time for sleep, as we've arial fitters and the local authority to deal with tomorrow morning, then I've got a story to get written (I didn't manage to post about the new topic, the dratted plague's fault!), busy busy :) .

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