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Babysitting redux

Blogger on the Cast Iron Balcony - June 19, 2008 - 9:45pm

When a couple is so dysfunctional, so mad or evil and stupid, as to starve their twin babies to death in their own house (besides letting the preschoolers roam free in the street begging for scraps), guess which member of the equally culpable pair is made to carry the can, even now, in the 21st century? Read more »

You’d think it was the Muppet show, but different Henson

Blogger on the Cast Iron Balcony - May 28, 2008 - 12:16am

For the last couple of weeks, longer than the furore over Bill Henson’s photographic exhibition, this photograph has stared out of the Entertainment pages of the local paper.

Rightly or wrongly (and we’ll probably never know), people have speculated for over a century about whether there was something creepy about Charles Dodgsons’ photographic sessions with the young Alice Liddell. Read more »