Category: Culture
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“Political Shifts on Gay Rights Lag Behind Culture”
Duh!
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Out of this furnace
I’ve been reading a novel called “Out of this Furnace” for one of my summer courses. It’s by Thomas Bell, an author from Braddock, Pennsylvania who grew up in a steel mill family. The novel is semi-autobiographical, following three generations of a Slovak immigrant family from the turn of the century through the thirties. The…
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Fail, fail again.
UPDATED at bottom Apparently since February, Amazon.com has been de-ranking books that are gay-themed in some way, thus basically making them unsearchable as titles on the site, and taking them out of the view of potential readers. I don’t have the “facts” on this, but it does seem to be true. There are many titles…
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On failing to keep up with Racefail
As I’ve not been reading blogs regularly over the past year of my new full time employment plus second-graduate-degree-taking schedule (I sometimes have very little time left in the day for eating and sleeping, it seems), I have remained ignorant of a great blogosphere debate that had been going on for what seems like it…
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Long live art
A really interesting article about the changes in the art world over the past decade or two, mirroring the movement away from global awareness that multiculturalism had been brewing in the late 80s to 90s as the country moved politically towards greater conservatism, and how that has, in the end, handicapped American art as it…
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It breaks my heart
Truer words…
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The Oasis Video
Okay, so this video is now officially making the rounds in the blogosphere. It’s a song by Amanda Palmer, of the Dresden Dolls, whom I love, and before I say anything else, I’ll say I love this song and the video. But I have a sort of critique of it, too. So far I’ve read…
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Q&A
I’ve been spending the past week doing Q&A at the Endicott Mythic Reader’s Group on Goodreads, and there have been some really thoughtful questions. One came in today, to which I just responded. And I’ve decided to post the question and my response here, too. Q: Ghosts and eldritch kids in and of themselves aren’t…
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Playing Security Check Point
Have you seen this yet? Amazing, fascinating, scary, crazy, crazy scary, just plain odd. Toys really do tell us a lot about the world we live in. But more importantly, check out the reviews of the product on its Amazon.com page. Brought to me and then to you via Jed Berry’s Facebook status.
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Loneliness in a crowd
An interesting BBC News article on the loneliness that pervades despite a crowded Japan, and how some people deal with it: Loneliness is a problem faced by many people on these crowded islands. But the Japanese are prone to believe that, in the right circumstances, money can turn a stranger into a friend… at least…