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quotes of the day

In which I still have no real content. In my defense, grades are due next week. So here are some funny things other people have said lately. The first one isn’t pop-culture-related, but the litgeek in me loves it so … Continue reading

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black snake moan

There’s a lot more I want to say about this one, about masculinity and patriarchy and race and class. But I find that if I wait until I want to say everything I won’t get around to posting anything, and … Continue reading

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links of interest

Sacred Apacow sums up perfectly my discomfort with my love for the bromance: “Somehow, we’re expected to swallow the misogyny in these films because they’re coated in a syrup of kinder, gentler masculinity. . . . [L]et’s not give movies … Continue reading

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in which I have no answers, only gay fish

Why is it that I’m relatively indifferent to rap and hip-hop music in general, yet strangely transfixed by absurdist white-boy rap and hip-hop parody? Discuss. Or just watch, ’cause these are funny as hell.

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newsbreak: sometimes women who are not “hot” can have other redeeming qualities. Film at 11

So you may have run across this somewhere on the Interwebs. Short version: not-young, not-thin, not-”hot” woman appears on Britain’s Got Talent. The judges and audience clearly think she’s a joke and find the idea of a not-conventionally-attractive woman with … Continue reading

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