But first: Does anyone want the three special EW True Blood covers? I got them free at work and am happy to ship out to someone who'd want all three. It's Anna Paquin with Moyer, Skarsgard and Manganiello in poses like American Gothic ( Read more... )

Okay so this is the thing: If you have issues with the royal family as a symbol of imperialism, or with weddings in general and particularly Christian ones? Totally valid! Write about it! Share with the class! Some folks on my flist already have done so this week ( Read more... )

I don't usually post links here (that's more for twitter, or sometimes tumblr) but this essay by Linda Holmes on NPR's Monkey See blog is so excellent that I don't want to spoil it for you by pulling a quote:

In Praise of Cultural Omnivores

Oh, and there will be preliminary color war voting later this evening!

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I'm hoping my friends who are also older than 35 will chime in on this post! Because this is the thing: when you're young, and you aren't up on the latest hippest new thing, it can be sort of charming. You can choose to be a luddite and people might find it either tiresome or cute. But once you're over a certain age, you just look like you're ( Read more... )

Took an unannounced internet break for ten days or so (not that anyone noticed, so I'm glad I didn't announce it or now I'd look like quite the egotist!) I'm catching up on a few things, so don't be surprised to get some comments on older entries.

A few weeks ago I made the post on being the bestest little media consumer ever which is a topic I've ( Read more... )

( or, a bit of a rant in list form )

Introduction to the NewSouth edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry FinnFantastic reading. If all you've seen of the current controversy is "they're taking out the n-word!" and/or sarcastic comments on Twitter, I urge you to read the introduction. (Particularly because they aren't just removing the word, but replacing it with " ( Read more... )

Two big links that lead me to two big thoughts on two big issues, but really really, if you care about either issue please follow the links.

First, my pal kalichan wrote an amazing post about a week ago: What's Love Got To Do With It: My Thoughts on *fail that everyone who's interested in such matters, especially in the way social justice is interacting ( Read more... )

This entry isn't about one thing that one person said, but probably about five different things I've been told, by many different people, in the last little while ( Read more... )

ironic product placement is only ok if you take no money & beyond that give all the income to something ironic. like the Klan. -Amanda Palmer

(That link takes you to sparkymonster's entry, in which there are many photos of the product placement in Lady Gaga's "Telephone" video along with photos of various Klan activities. Work safe, but definitely disturbing ( Read more... )