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Why are complaining against the “Vote Blue no Matter Who” concept? It’s objectively very useful to progressives, who have an…
" If ACT had floated the bill knowing it was doomed to fail, then absolutely." ACT's two right wing coalition…
Like when AOC dressed up in white and cried at a fence Remember the Alamo, right? All no respect, fuck…
The reason it’s one of the go-tos that come up when I think of performativity, is also the reason I…
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Category Archives: Popular (and unpopular) culture
Cultural Appropriation in Fantasy Writing: Learning to Laugh With Each Other
Within western fiction written by whites, there is always the problem of writing about other cultures. I don’t mean writing about people not of one’s own race, although that sort of diversity poses its own problems.* I mean, writing about … Continue reading
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Dr. Who and Feminism's Failure To Get Shy Men Laid
Since I don’t have time to write a post today — or, rather, I don’t have time to write a post NOW, because I’ve just spent a bunch of time leaving comments on a thread at “Feminist Critics” — I … Continue reading
Bring Back Joss
My grandmother died on the weekend. I’m going to try and write something about her life at some point. In the meantime all I’ve got energy to write about is TV. They aired the season finale of Heroes* in NZ … Continue reading
Sopranos — "Don't Stop"
(Spoilers are an inevitable part of life. And of this post.) I loathe the mob-drama genre. But I make two exceptions: Miller’s Crossing and The Sopranos. The smart opinions about The Sopranos’ final episode are split — some people hated … Continue reading
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Some Thoughts on Khaled Hosseini, reading from A Thousand Splending Suns
I went to a reading by Khaled Hosseini last night, at the bay area Book Group Expo. Khaled read from a section of his new book A Thousand Splendid Suns, which someone described as being the history of Afghanistan viewed … Continue reading
The Problem With Classical Music or What is Wrong With Our Middle Aged White Male Population?
Rachel’s Note: This is for all of those people who like to blame hip hop for everything. We have a problem in this country–classical music is corrupting our middle aged white male population. It has really gotten out of hand … Continue reading
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The Characterless Female, as seen in Jonathan Letham's You Don't Love Me Yet and Lost
Last semester, I was privileged to take a fiction workshop with Marilynne Robinson, the author of Housekeeping and Gilead. In one of our later class sessions, we were looking at a beautiful story by one of my favorite writers in … Continue reading
What fence are you referring to, Corso? What happened there? I can only assume that Corso means that if AOC…