For a few years when I was in high school, I kept lists of the books I read every year. Back then, I kept them on the computer, and I categorized them as I went along. I ended up not liking that strategy, because I can't find the files anymore, and because I think it's kind of interesting to see what order I read books in (though seeing how many ( Read more... )

Arrived at poll ~7:15, voted ~8:30. Lots of sweet stories, but for now, just photographic evidence:
( in reverse chronological order, 'cause that's how my cell phone rolls )

LSA abstract submitted. Now on to the next insanity! ;c)

Wow.  Just ... no.  Do they actually think this will convince anyone?

from: [address that doesn't exist@uchicago]
reply-to: [entirely different address@gmail, that bastion of credibility]

subject: Dear Uchicago.Edu Email Account Owner(WebNews Email Account Update)

MESSAGE FROM UCHICAGO.EDU

Dear Uchicago.Edu Email Account Owner.WISH TO INFORM YOU THAT WE ( Read more... )

... or, Attack of the Footnotes and Odd Analogies:

To discuss the thoughts and motivations of “the real Rush Limbaugh” would require expertise in
both the psychological sciences and the psychic arts, neither of which are within the disciplinary
purview of this paper. The truth is that “the real Rush Limbaugh” - the flesh-and-blood human
who opens ( Read more... )

Hey, smart people!  I've recently had an idea that I can't actually flesh out without knowing something about blackface - its construction in modern media, its meaning/effects, that sort of thing.  And I don't, really.

My question to you-all is this: what should I be reading about (modern) blackface?  Classics, new cutting-edge stuff, anything that ( Read more... )

My darling checks my 6-minute-and-change transcript of Rush Limbaugh for accuracy against the sound clip - despite being utterly uninterested in How People We Disagree With Do Fascinating Things With Language ( Read more... )

To the few people on my friends list who:

a) use ASL as their primary language,

and

b) haven't seen this yet, even though it's been cross-posted shamefully ...

I'm looking for people to participate in a study I'm running, which looks at newly-created signs.*  As part of this study, you will watch video clips of signs and rate them on a scale of 1 to ( Read more... )

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I hardly know whether to use my "language" icon or my "crazy dog lady" icon for this one, since my great love of Get Fuzzy stems from my great love of very silly dogs.  The strip in question here (from two days ago - hat tip to Barbara for pointing it out), though, only features Bucky Katt (and not Satchel Pooch), so "language" icon it is.

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