If you want some time out from all the cartoon hullabaloo, my bloggies have sent their usual selection of weekend treats. First Mark goes cruising with Lee Tamahori. How did they get that up so fast? He also points to this for all the ginges out there, The International Ginger Kids Foundation.

Chris notes comedian Rowan Atkinson is urging the British government to back down over its religious hatred bill, particularly with regards to the right to criticise religion.

“Oh, how I feel for Mark Vender, an unpublished writer who decided to take his first novel to January’s Hay Festival in Cartagena, Colombia,” says Chris. “Vender concludes: ‘a successful writer’s qualities must extend well beyond the written page’.” How true.

We haven’t linked to Clive James’s site before, but we should have done. It’s everything literature should be. Here’s his interview with Martin Amis. Chris also recommends Emily Bell on Julie Burchill’s writing, and more on the Penguin podcasts we wrote about here. Jeremy Ettinghausen at the Penguin Group in the UK writes to say that the artist we liked is called Chris Hutchings.

Stephen offers, from Popbitch, the dinner party guide to Orthodox Jewish pop music. The top three are: 1. David Lazzar - the Hassidic Jewish Fred Durst, who “blends heavy metal with Old Testament themes”; 2. Jew Da Maccabi - the best orthodox Jewish hip-hop artist; and 3. YLove - the top black Hassidic Jewish rapper.

And that’s a rap.