Apparently the fact that wealthy white gay people want to be just like other wealthy white people is news again. The Sunday Times magazine had a story on how young gay boys are nuts for nuptials, profiling a handful of white Boston gays in their 20s who have gotten legally wed. The interview subjects discuss [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2008
That Dream Within a Dream
30-Apr-08If a Blog Falls in a Forest…
28-Apr-08Aim high indeed! Linked to by The Soc Shrine! But I wonder what this means for the Life Course of this blog. How does exposure on the internets correlate to aspirations, plans, and attainments? Over at cruciferous, Dean has posted and commented on a talk that addresses the “cognitive surplus” of blogging, suggesting that attention [...]
Sean Bell Verdict
24-Apr-08The Queens judge presiding over the Sean Bell case is announcing his verdict tomorrow. If you haven’t followed this, here’s a Google news search of articles on the case. Somewhat surprisingly, given all the important things going on with Britney Spears and Jennifer Aniston, local and national media have actually paid a fair amount of [...]
I’m My Own Worst Frenemy
23-Apr-08I can’t stop fiddling around with this blog. I’m obsessively adding things, fixing things, testing things, changing things. I thought it would help with my diss work by getting me to write on things I’m reading/thinking along the way, but that assumes I have any time left for diss work after all the blogging is [...]
I’ve been enjoying this song by Andrew Bird called Tables and Chairs. It’s a nice corrective to the kind of ascetic-activist denial-of-fun to which I and some of my political co-conspirators can be prone. (Who said that thing about if I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution?) The song ends: [...]
Neoliberalism and Conscription
21-Apr-08One of the best articles I’ve read recently is Deborah Cowen’s Fighting for Freedom: The End of Conscription in the United States and the Neoliberal Project of Citizenship. It’s a really tight, focused read on the relationship between the restructuring of welfare programs in the U.S. and the end of the draft/launch of an all-volunteer [...]
Frakkin’ Airlocked!
19-Apr-08After what I think most of us agreed was a lackluster start, Season 4 of Battlestar Galactica got so good this past week. Obviously, I am freaking the frak out. In case you still think you are too cool for a show set in outer space, watch this recap of Seasons 1 through 3 and [...]
We’re In a Warehouse
16-Apr-08There was some interesting conversation about student evaluations over at Scatterplot a bit ago. One thought I’d add to the conversation — in some cases (I’ve had this experience) what is so upsetting about negative student evaluations (especially public ones, or public sites like Ratemyprofessor), is that they are right. Or at least touch on [...]