Sugarcubes vs. B52s: Bands from the 80s with female lead singers and then some guy just kind of talking sometimes.
What a weird trend, right?
Yearly Archives: 2007
Performative Identity and Buddhism’s Concept of Self
If only it had been Judith Butler, and not Mahapajapati Gotami, who had been seeking ordination as the first Buddhist nun! Maybe the Buddha could have peeled that onion early on. See also our good pal pratītyasamutpāda.
Dirty Dancing’s Anti-Capitalist Message
Recently I, together with my housemates and a bottle of Bushmills, revisited Dirty Dancing. We were all floored by this scene when Robbie — one of several rich, privileged villains Baby is caught between in the film — busts out … Continue reading
Text Is Now A Verb
I hesitate to elaborate further, the statement itself being so complete, but it tickles the postmodernist in me endlessly that text is now officially a verb and that it can almost certainly stand for the transferral of cultural capital. Well, … Continue reading
On Disposable Gender
In each stall of the women’s restroom at my workplace there is a little metal trashcan meant for menstruation-related refuse. 51% or more of you will be familiar with such things. What makes this particular incarnation of the beast interesting … Continue reading