The other day during a much needed lunch break a few colleagues and I got into a conversation about social drug use. What else would a group of new Ph.D. students be talking about in the dark corridors of the academy! I think I started us on our downward spiral as I was complaining that [...]
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Some call this shadow I’m Brailing walls in Paris down rue Jacob night, having
satisfied both cultural & sexual curiosity, within visual pulse of the neon deus ex
machinas, reptilian instincts keen to the jazz dizzying dervishing whirlwind Id.
Again, limestone weight of Time coupled with glass desublimation of the [...]
Aaron at Emvergeoning retells a obscure piece of Punk Rock history and South Texas lore through what he describes as, “collaborative web-based detective work.”
See, San Antonio’s Outrage! or, The Great Rock’N’Roll Poster Swindle.
Yesterday evening (gmt + 1) Danish teevee news live fed President Obama’s announcement that Chrysler will head into bankruptcy protection. Can anyone tell me if the CNNization of Danish news along with its increased obsession focus on live “breaking” coverage of D.C. political intrigue is merely a figment of my imagination?
A few weeks ago, thinking [...]
Quite some time ago, I wrote a post about The White Stripes’ “The Big Three Killed My Baby”, where I read the song as a critique of the car industry in Detroit and how Jack White saw Detroit being destroyed by reckless profiteering and bad industrial habits. As Stuart pointed out to me, there is [...]
During a few email exchanges last night, spurred by a delightful “le Experiment de Palourdes,” I slid into some rather long ruminations about food, my time in Greece harvesting olives, my Danish colony garden and family among other things.
In my friend’s final reply I read that he’d assumed I was in California, perhaps because [...]
Here is my latest academic contribution to the project of enlightenment in the form of outpouring of textbooks.
BETWEEN GAZES: FEMINIST, QUEER AND OTHER FILMS is a text book in which I introduce key terms in feminist, queer, and postcolonial/diaspora film. My point of departure is in the question “what do you want from me?” Although [...]
The Orange County suburb in Shenyank, China. h/t ata
Photograph by George Steinmetz for National Geographic.