Blog posts by Carrie Dunn: 2008
Anastasia watch: PDC World Championships
By Carrie Dunn | 22 December 2008, 01:52
After the griping from Wayne Mardle and Eric Bristow, Anastasia Dobromyslova made her PDC World Championships debut today, losing five legs to three to Remco van Eijden (but still finishing with the third-highest three-dart average of any player in the…
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“If I had lost I would have emigrated to Vegas”
By Carrie Dunn | 16 December 2008, 22:40
The wise words of darts player Wayne Mardle, who was given a run for his money by leading female arrers thrower Anastasia Dobromyslova in last month’s Grand Slam of Darts. If she’d triumphed, she would have been the first woman…
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Appropriate games for girls
By Carrie Dunn | 20 November 2008, 00:17
I was covering The X Factor for the Guardian’s website on Saturday night, and, during one of the breaks, was taken aback with one advert featuring Fearne Cotton and Holly Willoughby. Here’s what I wrote over at the Organ Grinder…
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Man apologises to other men
By Carrie Dunn | 28 October 2008, 22:04
It’s taken me a good 12 hours to work out what’s been bugging me about Allen Stanford apologising to the England players. For those of you who don’t follow cricket, Mr Stanford is a very rich man who is currently…
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Rachel wins…and Sara comes third
By Carrie Dunn | 5 September 2008, 23:34
I was waiting till now to post about Big Brother because I wanted to see how the finalists were treated by the crowd and by Davina McCall in their post-eviction interviews. Well, the moment has come, and lovely Rachel Rice…
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Rudy Giuliani says something interesting…and something daft
By Carrie Dunn | 3 September 2008, 22:09
Apropos of the whole Sarah Palin/daughter story, Rudy Giuliani was on Sky News earlier. I’ve not seen his comments reported elsewhere, and I was in the middle of running a 5k on the treadmill at the gym, so this may…
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The didgeridon’t
By Carrie Dunn | 3 September 2008, 19:56
Harper Collins, the publisher, are sticking with their new Australian edition of The Daring Book For Girls - despite the fact that some Aboriginal leaders are outraged with its advice on how to play the didgeridoo. That’s because the didgeridoo…
Beauty at the Olympics
By Carrie Dunn | 23 August 2008, 08:16
I seem to be burning my bridges with lots of my sources of work over the course of the Olympics, but this made me so angry I can’t help but post about it. The Times’s Chief Sports Photographer Marc Aspland…
Is there such a thing as feminist theatre?
By Carrie Dunn | 15 August 2008, 08:17
Don’t worry, I’m not going to ask you to write an essay about it (though I might get my third years to do so next semester), but I’ve seen two very contrasting plays this week with lots of meat for…
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New football magazine to launch. It’s for men, obviously
By Carrie Dunn | 12 August 2008, 12:18
As you may know, in real life I’m a journalist and cover a variety of subjects, mostly sport and media, so I was intrigued to find out that Golf Punk are launching a new football magazine. But wait! Who is…
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We don’t like cricket - oh no?
By Carrie Dunn | 16 July 2008, 23:21
So I was watching Sky Sports’ coverage of the cricket Test match between England and South Africa on Monday, and they had an interview with Piers Morgan at tea-time. They asked him why he liked cricket so much, and he…
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How to choose your PC peripherals
By Carrie Dunn | 29 May 2008, 13:01
I need a new flash drive to store my research on. So I go to Play.com, and see this utter piece of genius. Yes, it’s a PINK flash drive. So who is it for? Why, for the ladies, of course….
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Alcohol FOR GIRLS
By Carrie Dunn | 12 May 2008, 14:02
Occasionally - and you may find this difficult to believe - I find myself in a local hostelry, at the bar, seeking some form of refreshing beverage. This was the case last week, when I was in a pub in…
What men want: a tall woman with dementia
By Carrie Dunn | 6 May 2008, 08:34
I don’t even know where to begin with this piece from the Metro, purportedly in the ‘Science and Discovery’ section. It’s reporting on new research indicating that tall women are less likely to develop dementia, with every extra inch of…
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Danica Patrick makes motor-racing history
By Carrie Dunn | 20 April 2008, 23:01
Props to IndyCar driver Danica Patrick, who’s become the first woman to win an IndySeries race, having finished top of the podium in Japan. She finished just over five seconds ahead of Helio Castroneves (who non-petrolheads may know from his…
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Girls play the flute; boys play the trombone
By Carrie Dunn | 11 April 2008, 13:16
Seriously, single-sex orchestras are the best recommendation people can come up with in their report showing that girls play smaller, higher-pitched instruments and boys have the hefty brasses? How about, I don’t know, working on changing attitudes - as the…
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Male-dominated sport in ‘sexist’ and ‘nationalistic’ shocker
By Carrie Dunn | 10 April 2008, 19:57
I love me my darts, which is handy, being a sports journalist, but seriously, the more I go to Premier League Darts the more I wish I didn’t. If you’re not an arrows enthusiast - and let’s face it, there’s…
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Single? Female? Suicide?
By Carrie Dunn | 28 February 2008, 21:25
Yes, it’s a valid, topical piece of news, reporting on new ONS figures about suicide rates in the UK. The numbers from the ONS indicate that in 2005, 30.8 single men per 100,000 died by suicide, compared with 10.6 per…
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Sugar and spice and all things nice
By Carrie Dunn | 22 January 2008, 08:20
I hate feeling that I ought to start a blog entry with a disclaimer, but I want to be very sure that I’m not misconstrued. So let me say that I think learning to cook is a Good Thing. Everyone…
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Big breasts transform everyone's lives!
By Carrie Dunn | 5 January 2008, 18:13
I couldn’t sleep last night, and switched on the television at about 4am. I was greeted by an advert that totally confused me. As I recall, it was for Stagecoach, and focused on a wacky professor-type named Harold Hooterson (Hooterson!),…
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