Doubt Your Idols
Flannery O'Connor was always my most LITERATY famous. I felt she was more literary than others, because I never truly 100% undertstood everything I read, and...
Reckoning with Reality TV
The reckoning of Vanderpump Rules has charged on and I am sure some are tempted to think, “with all that is going on, why should I care about a reality...
What your advisor's non-response means
You’ve written your advisor a question. They don’t answer. As time passes by, this is what it means: Five minutes: They hate you. You’re an imposter. How can...
Tuesday Golden Girls Recap
Season 1, Episode 8, “The Break In,” as reviewed by Blanche's Chinese Vase I am, or was, Blanche's gorgeous but short-lived Chinese Vase. I used to live by...
Chromatica
There’s nothing I can say about the atrocities going on that (1) haven’t already been said and (2) haven’t been said better. However, I do want to think...
Thursday Lifestyle recs
Just living my best life, and want you to as well. Open a Diet Coke absent-mindedly and leave it by the couch and forget it. The next morning, rediscover it...
Wednesday reads
A lot of the internet is garbage. Here is the good stuff to read. We Were Rooting for You: On the Changing Legacy of Tyra Banks Twilight of the Mentors: Or...
New Alt! Ack! Podcast
I’ve gotten my act together and edited our latest Alt! Ack! podcast, in which Patrick lauds praise on my recent publication. Listen here. Works mentioned:...
Tuesday Golden Girls recap
Season 1, Episode 5: "The Triangle", Reviewed by Your Coworker Who Is Trying to Recruit You Into a Cult, Which Also Happens to be a Pyramid Scheme Oh hey,...
Tuesday Golden Girls Recap
Yes, it’s Thursday. I know. Season 1, Episode 4, "The Transplant", reviewed by a New Mother Who is The Best Ever at Parenting and Won't Stop Reminding You...
If you hate students, maybe stop teaching
It’s that time of year where my Facebook feeds are full of graduate instructors (and now, even full faculty) start complaining about students’ habits,...
Tuesday Golden Girls recap
Season 1, Episode 4, "The Transplant", reviewed by a New Mother Who is The Best Ever at Parenting and Won't Stop Reminding You Oh hey, while we are both at...
Some great weekend read that are not about COVID-19
In these times, we all are struggling, and being together, while apart are more important than before…is the commercial that plays three time sin a row while...
Desdemona Does Dallas
Like everyone delivering CONTENT during these “unprecedented times” I too have a podcast, but I/ve been lagging in editing the episodes. Here is one we just...
Tuesday Golden Girls recap
Season 1, Episode 3: "Rose the Prude", as Reviewed By An Extra on the Set of the "Entourage" Movie [This a reminder that this was originally written in 2013...
"These are unprecedented times..."
This is supposed to be about grad school, so let’s discuss. Higher Education is not just circling the drain, it is just about to go in. It was already under...
You need to calm down.
The first two listings on the call for papers site.
A quantitative analysis of Melrose Place
I made this during a zoom meeting. Sorry it is not peer reviewed. I’ve been plowing my way through Melrose Place and mark my words: I will write a book about...
Your Tuesday Golden Girls Recap
Season 1, Episode 2: "Guess Who's Coming To The Wedding," Reviewed by an Editor of a Women's Magazine Well, ladies, it’s wedding season so you know what that...
The GG in GG Allin stands for Golden Girls
Once upon a time, when recaps were a thing, I had the idea that I would not only recap all Golden Girls episodes, but that I would also so this conceptual...
What hot right now in COVID-19 Culture
In the spirit of upgrade/downgrade, what’s hot/what’s not, cheers/jeers, I’m here to keep you on the cutting edge. WHAT’S OUT/ WHAT’S IN Bernie Sanders /...
Please hate this
Quarantine has given us so much CONTENT. And, like a river of waste, most of it is shit. The cartoon above, shared on Facebook, really gets my girdle....
Special people only reading list
Alas! We have the first academic pub from the ‘rona. Also, get up on those edited collections that no one reads because they cost over $100 to the public!...
Showgirls, the novelization: You want it, you pay for it
Previously: Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 And, if you like it (or don’t), consider subscribing to support me in my cultural academic journey? [Explicit content,...
Academic papers, one year from now.
COVID-19: The self-expression of youtube stars during he coronavirus Self-distancing in Hogwarts: simulated models of the spread of COVID-19 among the four...
as a treat
Despite everything, I’ve received several pieces of good news, of which I’ll parcel out it is the only good news for a while. My first academic publication:...
It's inevitable
My plan was to not post anything about the massive historical moment currently going on, but I am breaking it because I am PLOTZING over this moment from...
Culture Home School
Ever heard of something called podcasts? Let me scream every true crime podcast that exists. Just kidding! I want to recommend a limited series podcast to...
I got an adrenaline rush while canceling everything.
Unless you are a contestant on the German version of Big Brother, I don’t need to tell you what is going on. I work for a national academic organization, and...
Canva templates that bum me out
Oh hi. I didn’t see you there. Want to trick everyone thinking you are a graphic designer? Use Canva. They have thousands of pre-made templates, many of...
Showgirls, the novelization: She Can Dance, Huh?
Read Part one here and part two here. And, if you like it (or don’t), consider subscribing to support me in my cultural academic journey? [Explicit content...
The Baffler is killing it
The internet has killed culture writing. (The internet is not a subject! It does not have agency!) But you know what I mean. The Baffler, on the other hand,...
A Father's Love
There’s nothing like a father’s love for his child. Sometimes that love blinds the father from the hard truths about his son, about how he is not the child...
aLT! aCK!
I was informed that the last link to the Positively Pop Culture Podcast episode in which I guested was not working, so let’s try this again. And while we’re...
Strength Through Discipline, Strength Through Community
Hello the semester has started to I am of course freaking out despite having done this eight times prior and always figuring out how to get everything done...
Showgirls, the novelization: She doesn't suck
Read Part one here. And, if you like it (or don’t), consider subscribing to support me in my cultural academic journey? [Explicit content ahead, obviously]...
Showgirls, the novelization
If you write something and no one reads it, it doesn’t exist. So I will be sharing parts of my magnum opus, a novelization of the film Showgirls. [Explicit...
Snowy day reading
I’m lodging a complaint somewhere (God? the atmosphere?) because it’s snowing badly and I was planning on driving 30 minutes away to see Parasite in the...
Travel tips for introverts
Make business cards to hand to people around you on your flight, saying “As an introvert, I don’t like small talk, as I am much more of a deep, intellectual...
More moments of 2019
I just want to mention some moments from popular media that made an impact on me, mostly from television: Years and Years, “The Erstwhile Sites” The...
Oscars Y2K
Hoo boy, those Oscar nominations. Here’s my take: they don’t matter. But they do matter. In what world is Ford v. Ferrari an important movie? Ahem, film?...
Dystopian AF
You wake up in your house. A house. But there’s only a few rooms. An apartment? It resembles something like an apartment that used to be….decorated in clean...
I don't like fun or whimsy.
A list of things I don’t do: karaokebowlingamusement parksbars, especially at night, when crowdedhikingAnything animated (except for cartoons for...
Citations needed
There was a twitter post few weeks go asking “what is something that is known in your profession but never talked about because it would unravel everything”...
The Delight of Watching the Demise of an Organization
The romance genre is still not taken seriously— no surprise since its a feminized genre. But while we hail Jedis and Yodas as the icons of culture, romance...
Do you use that to call your mother?
Lately I’ve been thinking about this clip from 1999, when Triumph the Insult Comic Dog roasted Star Wars fans waiting in line to see The Phantom Menace. It’s...
What to read instead of Harry Potter if you just now realized that JK Rowling is a bigot
Literally any other book.
Culture school
Hello inner-circle, A-list only readers: There have been SO many hot takes about so much culture, there’s a lot to weed through. Here are the ones I think...
Top films of the decade, although the markers are arbitrary times stamps of the Gregorian calendar
My top 50 of the decade!!! I do this to not only show off my sophisticated cultural knowledge, but maybe have others discover something they might not have...
End of Line
Continuing my completely subjective decade end film follies! Now, the best movies (films? Should I say films?) that have an ending that made me squeal with...