Linky things May 4th through May 5th

Here is some stuff I have been reading that I thought folks might like:

• May 5th – Tiger Beatdown › Shut Your Head Gash: A Polite Defense of Women’s Music – Can I get a “Hell Yeah”!?
• May 5th – THEORY FLASH! Coco Fusco, “Who’s Doin’ the Twist?” in English Is Broken Here (1995) « threadbared – Fusco also tackles the divide that assigns creativity to acts of appropriation of “exotic” or “other” cultural forms performed by privileged persons, and simultaneously decries as derivative those acts of parody, recycling, creolization, and adaptation of imposed cultural forms performed by non-privileged persons. In this troubling formulation, she argues, the privileged person is granted a sense of self-making or creative agency, while the non-privileged person is either a mimic or tragically “unnatural” and “inauthentic.” - I add this rather long quote from the article because I think the whole thing has some interesting ramifcations to some of the current conversation sparked by Diana Gabledon about FanFic.
• May 5th – Midweek Media – Mitchell and Webb Look at Commercials – If only those new kotex ads were this smart.
• May 5th – : Rules For The Masses : (A Kon Convention Special) Foamy The Squirrel – A Flash back to the past, and good advice for some.
• May 4th – Photo – awesome!! All moms should have a Hitachi magic wand and a large tv to watch their porn on.
• May 4th – Roman Polanski can remain silent no more. Anybody got a gag? – What she said!