I just need to say, if I were still at Simmons, I totally would have been cross-registered at Mass Art this semester to take “Truths My TV Told Me: Deconstructing Buffy”.

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an extremely "full" text, playing on ideological fault lines (the "Hellmouth," if you will) throughout its 96 hours. The series, self-consciously ( Read more... )

i cannot even handle the mooninite controversy. if you haven't heard about it yet, turner broadcasting did a stupid (awesome) thing by hiring a guerilla marketing firm to promote the aqua teen movie coming out in march. so they in turn hired this late twenties kid to put up these lite-brite mooninites all over the city, took video and stills of him ( Read more... )

I'm calling it.

Democratic candidate for president 2012: Jim Webb.

You heard it here first.

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) explaining the origins of bio-diesel fuel:

"You can even get it from squeezing dead animals!"

shows i am flipping between at 830am on a saturday:

1) washington journal on c-span.

2) granite state challenge on nhptv.

and for the record?

i loove granite state challenge.

so when you search for episodes of degrassi on itunes (hey, i don't have noggin, give me a break) and you read the descriptions of the shows, one comes up as "Paige faces her r****t in court ( Read more... )

this

a history teacher in jersey tells his students they will go to hell if they don't accept jesus christ as their personal saviour.

he specifically speaks about a muslim girl in the class going to hell.

a student tapes it so that the school board will believe him.

the community sides with the teacher,

say the student is violating the teacher's first ( Read more... )

so, i'm sitting at work, trying to find a photo that adequately illustrates the mysterious land that is saudi arabia when my colleague announces he cannot find a photo to accompany his article arbout the differences between the 2004 us military counterinsurgency manual and the 2006 edition. so i take a break to see if i can find one for him. i type ( Read more... )

watch this.

also, go vote. especially if you live in a swing state/district.

and if you'd like to learn more about some of the battleground elections, look at radio open source's midterm elections wiki (shameless plug, yes, but one that benefits all,)

i blame nick @ nite's overzealous airings of the fresh prince of bel-air for the return of one of my least favorite fashion trends: the super cropped jacket/shrug thing. in the episode where ashley finally gets her goddamn marketing tie-in, she performs her single* wearing a strapless bra and said black jacket. said black jacket, i might add, is ( Read more... )