December 2011
51 posts
Some initial thoughts on Homeland
- so this is like the post-Bush “24” for the Obama years. Doubt-ridden, unrighteous anti-terrorism.
- surprisingly woman-oriented—even feminist—undertones. At times, masculinity or masculine power is on trial, not Islam or American imperialism or any other poles on the patriarchal scales of right and wrong.
- Morena Baccarin is just too “sci-fi babe nerd...
I hope it comes out that Drake and Abel Tesfaye...
“People just get things wrong. They read them wrong, or remember them wrong or...”
– What Is Good Fact-Checking? | Mother Jones (via rubenfeld)
H-Grad is getting way real this holiday season
Recent discussions on the H-net listerv (I know, Web 1.0) for graduate students which is normally devoted to “how do I get money” and “where can I get a plane ticket” and “department politics”:
- weird sort of culturally chauvinistic one-off message from some Continental who doesn’t understand why American grad students always complain about their...
I don’t think I invented the gin+earl grey hot toddy but I certainly enjoy it more than anyone right now
Watch(via Muslims of France: Colonials - Muslims of France - Al Jazeera English)
I haven’t watched this yet, but it’s on the queue. It’s lazy politics to just cry racism and colonialism at the French government, even though that is what they are. There’s a lot of history to this that’s specific to France. Hard-won secularism, and the balance of duties (as opposed rights)...
“Ask anyone who watches this season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills how...”
– “After the Suicide: Understanding The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” by Tess Lynch for Grantland.
Also uses the delicious phrase “emotional napoleon”, not as in the emperor, but as in the emperor of cakes
Big Pete from The Adventures of Pete & Pete did a... →
T R I C K L E D O W N: I find this point of view... →
trickledown:
I find this point of view expressed by the National Ugandan Social Worker association to be interesting, even though I don’t agree with their conclusion supporting the anti-gay legislation in that country
Therefore, the tendency to argue that same-sex attraction is an innate condition and…
IMO, the hardnosed and pseudo-scientific distinction between instinct and...
“Education does not turn a man into a creature of blind wants, a prey to ever...”
– Edward Carpenter, “England’s Ideal” (1887)
everything lately has just been r.i.y.l. the sea and cake you know?
Off the Mat, Into Court: Lawsuit Pits Bikram and... →
I’ve been going to Yoga to the People since 2007 - first through their podcasts from my college dorm room, then all their studios in New York, and now in Berkeley.
I did the “Traditional Hot Yoga”/Bikram classes for about 2 or 3 months when they first opened the Chelsea hot studio in 2009(8?). Reading about Bikram then, I knew a lawsuit was in the mail. The pose sequence was...
opened:
Summer Camp - Brian Krakow
Of all the...
“‘Pearl Harbor’ is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on Dec....”
– Roger Ebert, in his review of the much-derided Michael Bay film. (“Of all the negative reviews I’ve written, this one may have my favorite first sentence,” Ebert said on his Facebook page today.)
“The whole of my winters, as well as most of my summers, I had free and clear for...”
– Thoreau
Doctor Love: Nerds and Male Privilege →
opened:
helloscarecrow:
nicolemarietherese:
Brett: i think this is up your alley so far
Brett got me an article on Nerdom and male privilege for Christmas.
It’s interesting, smart, and very well written. I’ll be honest, the nerds I tend to run with are of the comedy-slash-comics-nerd variety and I’ve never had firsthand experience with anything close to what’s addressed in this...
Doctor Love: Nerds and Male Privilege →
nicolemarietherese:
Brett: i think this is up your alley so far
Brett got me an article on Nerdom and male privilege for Christmas.
It’s interesting, smart, and very well written. I’ll be honest, the nerds I tend to run with are of the comedy-slash-comics-nerd variety and I’ve never had firsthand experience with anything close to what’s addressed in this article. But the plight of Female...
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“It’s based on a novel by Brian Selznick, who obviously knows the magic...”
– My little sister’s minute-review of Hugo for the Minnesota Daily
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WatchIt goes without saying this delighted every fiber of my being, right?
more chats with Mom
me: [gchat status] WHO IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD KEEPS PLAYING TLC AND RIHANNA AND CAN WE HANG OUT
mother: Can you really hear that all the way from Flossmoor? Awesome.
Canary in the coal mine →
Why has the idea of publicly funded higher education crumbled so quickly in England? James Vernon explores the origins of an academic culture that has internalised market rationalities and traces the concept of education as a personal investment back to the playing fields of Eton
reminders of Salman Rushdie's 'bimbo problem'...
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“I like being a mess; it’s who I am!”
– Ally McBeal, you guys.
