I know a lot of people who said that the video for Hungry Like the Wolf (Duran Duran) played into notions of the Savage Negro, and therefore was racist ( Read more... )

micheinnz posted a video from back in the early days of MTV and was talking about how it blew her mind at 11. That made me remember this gem from INXS:

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I think watching it was the first time I understood sexual subtext. I remember it taking my breath away. I was 9 in 1982 when this video came out ( Read more... )

This video shows a cat riding a dog, with a rat riding the cat. Reminds me of my childhood when my BF A. and I would take her dog (Gato was his name) out for walks, with her cat (Tramp after the dog in "Lady & the Tramp") riding him.

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Ah, the good ol' days!

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I've been thinking a lot about the Horace Mann Facebook Scandal. The NYMag article intro says the following:

When students created Facebook pages that viciously attacked a teacher, and when their wealthy parents on the school’s board defended them, Horace Mann was forced to confront a series of questions: Is a Facebook page private, like a diary ( Read more... )