I have decided to take a little break from blogging. I’ll be back, maybe after the summer? I’m working on developing some healthier boundaries in my relationship with my computer. This may or may not have something to do with having recently seen Wall-E. In the meantime, I’m trying to cultivate some more analog activites [...]
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04-May-09Luck of the Draw
28-Apr-09The two first items on my Google Reader today: Tina at Scatterplot, writing that misfortunes highlight how lucky I am, and A. over at On My Commute, who is feeling lucky no longer putting off the inevitable. A double-whammy of good advice to quit whining and get some perspective — coincidence, or just good luck? [...]
Hello, Dummy! See you tomorrow, Bijoux!
01-Apr-09A few random items, because that’s how my mind rolls on a Wednesday: Last week’s episode of 30 Rock was pretty stellar. Not only do we get the return of the Beeper King, but we also learn a new term for laughing so hard you pee your pants: “lizzing,” as in laughing + whizzing. Btw, [...]
Dang, Rethinking Sex is Heavy
05-Mar-09Am writing from Philadelphia, where I’m attending the Rethinking Sex conference. It’s a real who’s-who of queer studies people, and my brain is pretty mushy after a long day of concentrated rethinking. A few observations: I am more sociological in my approach to questions than I realize; the UPenn campus is kinda dumpy, which surprised [...]
Win Some, Lose Some
26-Feb-09In bad news, I got called a moralistic, over-wrought navel-gazer. In good news, blog stats are up and visits have quadrupled in the past few days. I’ll take it! Welcome new readers, hope you remembered to bring your bongs. I decided not to weigh in over there since I felt trying to defend myself or [...]
Ghost Stories
24-Feb-09I haven’t quite been able to wrap my head around the conversation about racism over at scatterplot. One thought I’ve had is that the pain inflicted by the cartoon under question, the pain of viewing the cartoon for people who know that monkey means them, has gone largely unacknowledged by those who question the racist [...]
PSA
02-Jan-09We interrupt this blog briefly to bring you this other blog: dearjuliedavidandted.
Class Dismissed!
31-Dec-08Happy New Year dear readers reader. The band leaves tomorrow for two weeks of shows in Europe, so I don’t expect to be on this thing much. I look forward to posting, reading comments, commenting on comments, linking to posts, and wasting time looking for stupid photos to add to posts with you in 2009.
The Exhausted Horses Are Shot
12-Dec-08I really have been out of the soc blogosphere loop — I had no idea The Soc Shrine was back! I was very sad to see them go. I really enjoy those little nuggets over there, and I never had the issues with them some bloggers seem to have. But I also have no problem [...]
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