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. [...]
Linky things May 4th through May 5th
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May 072010
!@#$%!!!!!
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Jul 202009
ya know – Fuck wikipedia’s “we don’t warn about spoiler’s policy” . . . I don’t think i shoud have to worry about TV show spoilers when reading an actor’s bio. After dogding Torchwood spoilers for weeks on LJ I got spoiled in 30 seconds reading one of the actor’s bios. Fuck
Belated Update
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Jun 032009
So most of May and a little of June: ADD meds seem to be working somewhat – I do wish I could find a different head-doc that would be easier to talk to about what efficacy I am actually getting. Right now it is quite clear that she isn’t actually listening to me (Evan sat in on the last meeting and concurred), while constantly suggesting that she will stop prescribing, even when we have found something that gives me some sort of useful effect. I am trying to figure out the best way to address this, it has already been [...]
Drive by late night update
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May 192009
Watched Glee . . . uhm . . . they have stolen all the cheeze and possibly the whiz too. Many things annoyed me, and some amused me. I seriously hope they were going for caricatures, because they certainly got them, and not always in a way that was okay for me (materialistic wife who hates her husbands dreams, minorities as spunky but useful backup, driven career girl and christian/slutty/blond cheerleader, evil high-school cliques, etc I could go on and on. Getting ready to go to Wiscon for my first time. As usual feeling trepidations and shy. I wish I [...]
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May 042009
This video isn’t new, but i saw it for the first time last week – imho, its pretty incredible – and is really addressed to those of us steeped in science fiction media. Us – lim You can find more videos at lim’s page at vimeo.
