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Disabled Dolls - The Debate

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Posted in on June 27, 2008 at 11:44 am

The air is thick with all sorts of things at Bizarre Towers: clouds of toxic gas, biblical plagues of winged beasts, wisps of neon yellow smoke…most of them emanating from Picture Editor Tom Broadbent’s crotch region. Today, though, the air is full of debate. Earlier this week, we saw a girl with Down’s Syndrome appear with her father on BBC breakfast TV to talk about a series of Down’s Syndrome dolls which have been produced, and we can’t stop talking about it.

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HEXellent - New horror attraction in Blackburn needs eerie actors, creepy characters and peculiar performers

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Posted in on June 18, 2008 at 6:31 pm

Desperate to be in the limelight but still stuck under the strip lights of the British Gas Call Centre? Toiling in Tesco or stacking shelves in Sainsbury’s when you should be lapping up your encore? Want to be treading the boards, but are just bored instead? This might just be your chance to spend the summer using your acting skills to make people soil their smalls with fear…and get paid to boot.

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New Designers Exhibition 2008 - talent more fresh than a vacuum-packed foil-wrapped daisy

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Morning puffalumps.

The New Designers Exhibition is running from 3rd-6th and 10th-13th July this year, in Islington, London. I’ve gone for the last two years and seen some entrancing innovations, from taxidermy brooches and bracelets made from teeny tiny teacups with macabre prostitute animals frolicking across them, to business cards in the shape of ice lollies with details printed like a joke on the stick and mirrors that morph your reflection into the shape of the queen’s head. I LOVE fresh, new design and seeing what quirky creations the twisted tick-tocking clockwork brains of the latest crafty generation are coming up with, and I’ll be reporting back on the most interesting finds I uncover. Anyone else going to visit or exhibit? Read more

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Christina Aguilera’s steampunk jewellery range - a load of hot air?

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Posted in on June 17, 2008 at 7:02 pm

I’ve had a few phonecalls from escape artists and magicians lately telling me they’re performing at the launch of a steampunk jewellery range fronted by Christina Aguilera. I can’t find any info about this mysterious bling, though - anyone know about it? Am I being steam-Punk’d, or does this stuff really exist? Is it in our midst, and I’ve just mist it? Are there any more steam-related puns I can jam in here?! Read more

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Hamming it up in Parma

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Hear ye, hear ye, ’tis Foxtrot of Ye Olde Bizarreville here, greeting you in a medieval (media-evil?) style today. Why? Because I’ve got a backlog of news to share, and some of it seems so ancient to me now that it might as well be running around a straw-strewn courtyard kicking a pig’s bladder about and having putrid chamber pots emptied on it from castle turrets. Read more

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Fur Balls - some ‘professional’ bollocks about the Furry Fandom that really got my goat…

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Posted in Challenge Alix, Furry Fandom, Furries on June 1, 2008 at 11:03 pm

…and you all know it’s never good when someone gets Foxy’s goat. My goat is my sole mode of transport. How the hell am I supposed to get around without my trusty steed? Guess I’ll have to stay put and grumble about this article by The Times Online’s Doctor Thomas Stuttaford which suggests that folk who like to dress up in costumes or indulge in other fetishes have a ‘problem’ which should be ‘treated’ with therapy and drugs. Jeez, I’m glad this guy isn’t my local practicioner, or I’d have had my personality pulled out with pincers and every last drop of difference doped away by now… Read more

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