Archive for April, 2008
“It’s always open season on gay kids”
So writes Eve Sedgwick in Tendencies (155). As I read more queer theory and more about the history of LGBT movements, I have become increasingly interested in the sissy: the faggot, the “effeminate,” the girlyboy. In LGBT Studies this week we’re reading a chapter from Piontek’s Queering Gay and Lesbian Studies about how the Gay [...]
Outside: the MMORPG
A few weeks ago, Dennis linked to this amazing review of Outside, which is, unfortunately, only part of a longer thread. Classic:
Traditionally Outside receives extremely high ratings by those who like to see others play it, and these people are in many cases comfortably ensconced Inside themselves. Outside was released many years ago, it was [...]
Stop-Loss and Lacan
I saw Stop-Loss last weekend, an intense movie about soldiers returning to Texas from Iraq. A few of them are stop-lossed, meaning that although their service is supposed to be over, they are being redeployed. The movie revolves around the struggle of one soldier, played by Ryan Phillippe, of not wanting to return to Iraq [...]
“there is no such thing as writer’s block”
So said my writing teacher my junior year of college. A skinny man influenced by Buddhism and Tom Romano, Bob Tremmel had captivated my attention like no other English teacher had done since I was in high school. It was probably his class that turned me from someone interested in teaching literature and ideas to [...]
what is your take on corporate comments?
Occasionally I get comments on my blog from corporate folk. They’ll chime in on the discussion and then, as if they are objective, discuss some company that deals with the issue in some way and link to it. I’ve been approving these comments, but editing them before I do by taking out the hyperlinks from [...]
abortion akin to tiananmen square?
Librarians, students, feminists, writing teachers — heck, anyone who cares about information literacy, access to information, politics, etc. — here’s something you should be aware of. Via Nels, the word “abortion” has been blocked as a term in an information database:
Ten days ago at the University of California in San Francisco, librarian Gloria Won was [...]
1993: when “the internet” was just “internet”
Go here to see a news video from 1993 that discusses this new thing called “internet” (woah, without the article “the”!). The descriptions of emoticons is classic! Some other classic quotes (the first of which is all too familiar even today):
“There are no borders on the Internet.”
“It has more soul than any human being I [...]
using feed2js in blackboard
Alright, I hate Blackboard, but we’re using it at OSU. A month or so ago, Jon Dorbolo (of Technology Across the Curriculum) showed me how I can pull in an RSS feed into my Blackboard site using feed2js. You can go to this site, enter an RSS feed, and it will generate javascript text that [...]
notes from the interblags: just some links
I’m going to have to give up on writing on some of these things, though I’ve wanted to. Some tabs that have been left open on my browser over the last month or so:
• “The White Anti-Racist is an Oxymoron: An Open Letter to White ‘Anti-Racists’” by Kil Ja Kim at ChickenBones: A Journal
• Being [...]
Headed to Penn State
I’ve let the graduate programs that I was accepted into know, and now I’m announcing it here: I’m headed to Penn State in the fall to work on a PhD in English, focusing in rhetoric and writing. I’m excited!!
It was a tough decision among four great programs that I have a lot of admiration [...]
