It’s 8 years to the day since Kirsty MacColl was killed by a power boat at the age of 41. I still miss her – she had released a brilliant album just before she died and had so much more to give. Here’s one of her biggest hits, her cover of Billy Bragg’s “A New England”.

Still, no one has been held accountable for Kirsty’s death – see www.justiceforkirsty.org/

I was amazed to see the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald today which features Snoop Dogg in a Holden, surrounded by a mob, in Redfern, right outside the house that we lived in for six years in Hugo Street. It’s almost enough to make you wish you’d never sold the house! Wow.

Here’s the story: Rudd gives $20m to black scholarship fund.

via AfterEllen

UPDATE: Sorry, this video seems to have been deleted. It’s a shame!

What a blessing for us all! Now roll on the new album Britney! We still love you!!

I even have a sweater EXACTLY like that one.

And if I wasn’t Lara, the next closest is Jacqueline Bisset:

I must try that hairstyle.

“The Olsen twins admire Snoop Dogg’s chalice.”
via the Gothamist

Me thinks they have their eyes on some gin’n'juice.