So you had better do as you are told…
My friends Matt May and Jess Havens (no website of her own, so no link…sorry!) have recently started a weekly radio show called “FutureMixtape” on KEOS in College Station, TX. They’ve asked some of their friends to curate 15-20 minute sets of tunes each week … and they were bold (or foolish) enough to invite […]
Last week’s links
A half half dozen (because some weeks, the Interwebs are less generous than others) of the most interesting things to pass through my browser in the past seven days. Be extra kind to teachers. Be extra kind to servers. Be extra kind to sex workers.
Prelude to a . . . waitasec. What was the question again? [Rerun Sunday]
You can find a brief explanation of “Rerun Sunday” here. The post below originally appeared on 10 Feb 2007. [Possible mild spoilers ahead, depending on just how sensitive you are to these things.] Just came home from seeing The Departed at the glorious second-run theatre around the corner. And it was, in all sorts of […]
Video(s) of the week
Cheating a little here, as these are the sort of “videos” one can find on YouTube where the images involved are irrelevant. I’ll even go so far as to admit that I haven’t looked at any of these videos past the first second or two. So maybe there’s eventually something exciting here on which to […]
Adventures in bookkeeping
I’m on sabbatical for the 2014-15 academic year, and spending it in Seattle: i.e., 1900 miles away from Minneapolis. Relocating for ~15 months poses a number of logistical problems — most of which I won’t bore you with — but there’s one that I suspect will resonate with many of the folks who are likely […]
Why Cultural Studies?: A short tease
Last week, my friend Ted Striphas (so cool that he has two blogs) stumbled across an Amazon link for my really-really-long-time-coming-but-finally-almost-here book, Why Cultural Studies? and posted some nice words of congratulations about it to Facebook. My friend Kembrew McLeod called it “the cultural studies equivalent of waiting for GnR’s Chinese Democracy.” My friend Timothy […]
Last week’s links
A half dozen of the most interesting things to pass through my browser in the past seven days. Reworked pop songs Reworked Virginia Woolf Violent future? Violent media? Pianos that play themselves Papers that write themselves
Driving while . . . mulatto [Rerun Sunday]
You can find a brief explanation of “Rerun Sunday” here. The post below originally appeared on 30 Nov 2006. Michael Omi was on campus tonight, where he gave a smart and engaging talk: “The Contradictions of Colorblindness: Race and Its Discontents.” During the Q&A period, two different audience members — seemingly with noble intentions — […]
Video of the week
I eagerly await someone equally creative finding a way to perform “96 Tears” using nothing but teardrops, and “16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought Six” using nothing but a rifle.
Ten books
If you’re on Facebook, you’ve probably seen some version of the “Ten Books” meme. A friend there tagged me, and I agreed to follow through … but I’d rather do so here. Partially because it’s a way for me to keep up my renewed commitment to blogging regularly, but also because I’d prefer not to […]