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For quite a while now I have been wanting to go to a roller derby bout. It’s a relatively unknown sport in the UK but it looks like so much fun:  funky outfits and spunky names with a speck of violence thrown in for good measure.  Roller Derby stands for the alternative, the feminist, the punk, the sassy, the inked, the powerful.  My local team is the Birmingham Blitz Dames but alas I am not free for Roll Britannia, a two day tournament being held in London this weekend.

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I am determined to get to a bout at some point though.   There was a podcast about Roller Derby by the superb Stuff Mom Never Told You (from the How Stuff Works super-site) which was very informative about the history of roller derby and whether it is a sport or a spectacle (conclusion: a  bit of both!).  I love the foxy names which the competitors give themselves… I wonder what mine would be?  Kat Nip? Kiki Pow? Unfortunately, my favourite Kitty Kitty Bang Bang is already taken.

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I am looking forward to seeing the new film Whip It (Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut) – here’s the trailer:

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