Finally got caught up on Bill Maher, and Scrubs.  Behind by about five Dresden Files so not sure we'll follow that; need to save the space for everything else ( Read more... )

The Final Project Proposal meeting actually went very well.  Dr. Wald (and "Priscilla" is officially okay) distilled my somewhat pedestrian proposal into something much more brilliant and exciting, which of course is what I tried to say and had written very poorly.  Essentially, why does literature inform us about sociological implications better ( Read more... )

Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television
Elana Levine
http://www.dukeupress.edu/books.php3?isbn=978-0-8223-3919-9

“Wallowing in Sex is a groundbreaking and important examination of television’s significant role in the increasingly sexualized culture of the 1970s. Painstakingly researched and smartly written, it is a ( Read more... )