I'm going to turn my LJ into a reading journal since I have nothing going on in my life except reading and writing. I'll try to post something after each text that I finish. Hopefully, this will serve at least two functions: 1) to organize my thoughts before discussing them in seminar/to a faculty member and 2) to have an informal forum in which I ( Read more... )

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Don't choke on your vomit:

Dave Chappelle's Ugly Dress

I just got to listen to "American Doll Posse." After a few listens all the way though (23 tracks, no small feat), I'm concluding that it's the best album since "Choirgirl" (1998, I think). If you're not convinced, here's the first music video:

Big WheelShe sings through five characters (Santa, Clyde, Pip, Isabel, and Tori) and one of them has a ( Read more... )

I was thinking about possible courses that I could design for next year. One of the ideas I came up with is to structure a course around asking about differences between poetry and prose. Is it a distinction without a difference? What formal tricks can be done with each? What happens when the distinction blurs? Does it matter? Literary texts that ( Read more... )

Tourism ad for the Lake District featuring MC WordsworthHere's the original poem before rap conversion. Note the omission of the "A poet could not but be gay" line. Apparently the tourism board doesn't realize the fag-heavy distribution of their target audience ( Read more... )

As good as "shoes" and "text message break up" are, they get old after the 100th time. Here are two new videos that I nominate for replacements.

My Lumps

I'm Not Gay

Best use of queer theory ever:

http://janedark.com/2006/10/futuresex_lovesounds.html

1. One book that changed your life ( Read more... )

"I've already defined this child-aversive, future-negating force, answering so well to the inspiriting needs of a moribund familialism, as sinthomosexuality, a term that links the jouissance to which we gain access through the sinthome with a homosexuality made to figure the lack in Symbolic meaning-production on account of which, as Lacan declares ( Read more... )