Sunday Reads
Tongue Untied: Big Red Monkey Bootie and Pornography Author Ian Kernan quotes from an article spoofing monkey porn, scientific research, and the ever looming gender question. Culture Kitchen: Does the Bible Make Me Look Fat in this Dress? A look at the body politic, tied to Terri Schiavo and the Christian religion. Whirled View: Anger [...]
...read moreNational Poetry Month
If I observed National Poetry Month properly, this blog would turn into all poems all the time. One of my favorite series is John Berryman’s Dream Songs, poems arranged around ordinary events, often spoken to and through an alter-ego named Mr. Bones. Although Berryman was considered part of the confessional movement, he scorned the idea [...]
...read moreGrab the Febreeze, Honey
I know Mac has written about this before, but now it’s my turn. I got hungry last night and poured myself a big bowl of Kashi cereal. I ate it in front of a movie, not thinking too much about my mild lactose intolerance or the cereal that will henceforce be known as “colon blow.” [...]
...read moreA Little Bird Tells Me…
…today is Roxanne’s birthday. Go give her some (nice) birthday wishes.
...read more“Exhaustion” Is Fair
Ethan regaled the finer points of tornado drills in the car this afternoon. They have to go out in the hall, he said, and kneel in front of their lockers with their hands over their heads. And when the teacher calls their names, they must say “here” or “present.” I asked him if he knew [...]
...read moreApril Fools
Just so you know, this was the project I’ve been working on. And, I’m available for web design.
...read moreFriday Random Ten – Now With Downloads!
Happy April Fools Day! If it’s Friday somewhere, it’s time for the FRT. No joke. Load up those mp3s, set to random play and list the first ten that grace your eardrums. 1) Iomos Marad – Each 1 Teach 1 2) Norman Greenbaum – Spirit in the Sky 3) Tanya Stevens – It’s Over Now [...]
...read moreSurvey for Political Bloggers
Via Media Girl comes this academic survey for political bloggers of all shades: My name is Anahí Lazarte and I am agraduate student at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Currently I am working on a project related to political blogs. I am looking for volunteers to share their thoughts about blogging. If you know [...]
...read moreFood For Thought
I’m tired and busy and sore and don’t feel like coming up with an appropriate and original title for this post or adding any commentary to anything I write. But Chuck heard this funny little fact on NPR today, a fact with philosophical implications that I’m too tired to decipher: The 44 Democrat senators represent [...]
...read moreOne Rumor and One More Injury
While waiting for my project partner to show up at my house (dude, where the hell are you?), I took a long walk to campus to get some iced chai. When I walked into the coffee shop, by this point dripping sweat down my forehead and off the upper lip as I tend to do [...]
...read moreFemininity and The Wimp Factor
Media Girl (in the comments of XX) points to this interview by Stephen J. Ducat, author of The Wimp Factor: Gender Gaps, Holy Wars, and the Politics of Anxious Masculinity. If you didn’t get the point of Hillary hatred, the recast of war hero Kerry into a Frenchman, or the offensiveness of calling Edwards “the [...]
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