Paper Monitor
13:00 UK time, Tuesday, 28 February 2012
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Paper Monitor is torn - what's it going to be today? Celebrities posing on the Oscar red carpet - or animals posing with their best fox-friend, or astride shopping trollies. The papers are full of photographs of both.
It's a tough call.
Regarding the Oscars, the usual suspects are pictured lining up on Sunday night to out-do each other - Cameron Diaz pouts in cream, Penelope Cruz va va vooms in blue-grey, Michelle Williams dazzles in coral, Uggie looks debonair in a dickie bow.
But critics agree that it was Angelina Jolie's right thigh that stole the show. She gets the Oscar for "most over-exposed right leg" from the Daily Mail, while fans have taken to @AngiesRightLeg to signal their approval.
On now to the other posers. Pad forward , Georgia, who has reportedly become an internet hit with pictures of her balancing between a bicycle seat and handle bars, between two shopping trollies, on top of a fire hydrant and on the back of a horse. Metro describes her as the "queen of canine planking". Her owner is now hoping to visit all of the states in the US and record her standing on "something strange" on the blog Maddie On Things: A Super Serious Project About Dogs and Physics.
The Daily Mail 's page three is dedicated to photographs of . The pair have formed an inseparable bond and the vixen has apparently learned doggy behaviour from the terrier. They are shown enjoying a playfight, jumping for a ball and larking about amid the bluebells. In some of the pictures, the pair strike remarkably similar poses. They are celebrated in pages of the Daily Telegraph, under a headline that plays on the "quick brown fox" pangram.
Finally, spare a thought for the poor creatures who don't get a say over what pose they are photographed in. The front page of the Mail's website carries an intriguing picture of a white mouse holding a teeny-weeny guitar. Click through to the feature and you get the headline: "Is this the most bizarre art project ever? Taxidermy class teaches students how to stuff dead mice and pose them up 'as if they were humans'."
Paper Monitor would concur that this strikes one as being quite out of the ordinary. And as the newspaper warns: "This is not a hobby for the faint of heart".
"Susan Jeiven's class in New York on anthropomorphic taxidermy has been sold out since December. The one-day workshop, which teaches students how to stuff dead mice and pose them up as if they were humans, is becoming a popular pastime in New York."
Paper Monitor suggests that the squeakish (pun borrowed from the paper) might want to stop scrolling down the page after the picture showing one mouse holding a wine glass, while another poses in a tutu.
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