Okay, so I'm in my "Practical Criticism/Writing About Literature" class and we're reading "Battle Royal" by Ralph Ellison, which later became the first chapter of his novel Invisible Man (which I haven't read, but I know it's about experiencing racism in mid-20th-century America).  So we're talking about the implications of being "invisible" and ( Read more... )

Fall classes are starting tomorrow, and my only Monday/Wednesday class is American Literature I, which is almost guaranteed to be quite boring.  So in order to stay happy, I'm going to post some awesome videos I found on YouTube that pay tribute to the other CJH:
( Captain John is back kissing boys and running around to boyband songs. Why? Because he CAN. )

Okay, I'm in this class called "The History of Women in Pop Culture," and I really, really like the teacher and the subject matter (we've talked about the history of flappers, women in film before the Hays Code of 1930, and women working in bomber factories during WWII, and now we're discussing Wonder Woman; eventually we'll get to magic as a ( Read more... )