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This Things I Think: Tricky Dicks
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This Things I Think. I wish I could be everywhere that people are doin' art, so that I could see it before the public sees it, and I could keep them from bein' titillated, or aroused, or in any way confused by the counterculture.". Just got finished writing a lengthy, historical (slightly critical) diatribe on Richard "I am not a crook" Nixon, and I thought this would be a great sounding pad to get out all the cultural Nixons that I squeezed into my concluding paragraph- and those that could not fit.
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This Things I Think: Spinning the Black Circle
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This Things I Think. I wish I could be everywhere that people are doin' art, so that I could see it before the public sees it, and I could keep them from bein' titillated, or aroused, or in any way confused by the counterculture.". Spinning the Black Circle. This Pearl Jam song, "Spin the Black Circle," comes off their phenomenal album Vitalogy. 1994), and is lyrically worth considering in light of my new-found interest in this aural delight:. See this needle.a see my hand. Spin, spin.whoa. I say ambiguo...
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The Virtual Feminist: April 2010
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010. The End of Solitude.Really? By William Deresiewicz. He discusses the voracious need for 'more and broader connectivity' and this idea of there being an absence of solitude (particularly among teenagers). This was written over a year ago. :) Here's an excerpt:. If you're not personally, physically in the presence of others than you're not really 'with' them, are you? Some would argue that even then (especially when you're texting while. What would we do? How would we behave?
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This Things I Think: Men of a Certain Age
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This Things I Think. I wish I could be everywhere that people are doin' art, so that I could see it before the public sees it, and I could keep them from bein' titillated, or aroused, or in any way confused by the counterculture.". Men of a Certain Age. So, I finally saw my first John Cassavetes' film, Husbands. 1970), followed shortly after by my second, Gloria. 1967) and Rosemary's Baby. I was sucked into Gena Rowlands acting- who wouldn't be? I truly could- and eventually will- talk more about Husbands.
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The Virtual Feminist: CONFESSIONS OF A VIRGIN BLOGGER
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010. CONFESSIONS OF A VIRGIN BLOGGER. I feel awkward and resistant. . The vortex of information overwhelms and alienates, yet intrigues me when I give in. . In this rapidly advancing digital age of flips, blips, twits and microchips, I am still new and inexperienced. . The fear of not knowing how, where or why to blog has kept me from it for far too long. . What do I say? How do I say it? Classic chick rhetoric. . Ahh…the perfectionist strikes again. . Does anyone truly repres...
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The Virtual Feminist: Audio Visual Thinking: The Journal of Academic Videos
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Thursday, February 24, 2011. Audio Visual Thinking: The Journal of Academic Videos. Haven't posted in awhile and much to share! In the Slovak Republic at the moment teaching as a foreign lecturer at a University as part of the Fulbright program. I just received word from my classmates from grad school who worked on putting this project together. Check out Edition #2 of Audio Visual Thinking: The Journal of Academic Videos. Http:/ www.audiovisualthinking.org/videos/issue02/roland barthes/.
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The Virtual Feminist: BUCA DI BEPPO DISTURBS ME - OBJECT TO OBJECTIFY?
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Monday, February 15, 2010. BUCA DI BEPPO DISTURBS ME - OBJECT TO OBJECTIFY? Have you ever noticed the pictures hanging on the walls at the Buca di Beppo in Claremont, CA? Last Friday evening a friend and I opted to endure a ridiculous hour-long wait and make Buca our restaurant of choice (I must have really had a craving for homogenized Italian food and clamorous environments). It gave me a little time to observe. . In this picture, a slick, dark-haired man and a voluptuous woman are sharing an enormous...
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This Things I Think: March 2010
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This Things I Think. I wish I could be everywhere that people are doin' art, so that I could see it before the public sees it, and I could keep them from bein' titillated, or aroused, or in any way confused by the counterculture.". I wanted to comment on Professor Oishi’s lecture two weeks ago because I just finished watching a film that I think connects, in a curious way, to the Halberstam article “The Transgender Gaze in Boys Don’t Cry. 8212;but one of the most intriguing things Akerman does is use onl...
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This Things I Think: This Movies I Seen
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This Things I Think. I wish I could be everywhere that people are doin' art, so that I could see it before the public sees it, and I could keep them from bein' titillated, or aroused, or in any way confused by the counterculture.". This Movies I Seen. Maddening and delightful The Sublime Object of Ideology. 1972) shocked me in its reception. I wasn't shocked, per se, but I was intrigued how many people had never seen (let alone heard of) Fritz the Cat. Or Gone with the Wind. A Bucket of Blood. Fame) as a...
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This Things I Think: January 2010
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This Things I Think. I wish I could be everywhere that people are doin' art, so that I could see it before the public sees it, and I could keep them from bein' titillated, or aroused, or in any way confused by the counterculture.". In Which the Olive Garden is Lectured and Dissected. Not really, but then again neither The Sopranos. Nor The Jersey Shore. Much bothered my particular sensibilities. It's time we don't let them off the hook so easily. What I specifically find fascinating? Here's a thought: wa...
