This story on Obama's first hundred days is pretty painful to watch:
Huffington Post: CNN Story On Obama's "Swagga" The Most Embarrassing Video Ever?
4 hours ago
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Advice for Graduating Students...
This is probably gonna turn a few people off but I'm a pretty big Chris Matthews fan. Here's a clip of him out promoting his new book, The Hardball Handbook: How to Win at Life, and giving advice for students who, like myself, are about to graduate from college. The key part comes in around the 5:00 mark:
I'm expecting to get a copy of this book as a graduation present.
I'm expecting to get a copy of this book as a graduation present.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Home Stretch
It's hard to believe but I've almost made it to the end of this college thing. In a few weeks I'll be out of here, finally. But between now and then I've got about thirty pages of papers to write. I'm trying to work out how much time I can give myself to procrastinate before I get to doing some serious work. The good news is, all my research is pretty much done and I've got some notes outlined, so it could be worse. But the way things are looking, I think it'd be wise to delay most of my partying until after everything's due. We'll see if I can pull that off...
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Friday, April 17, 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 1950-2009
I don't go on many rants about queer theory on this blog, but when I heard about the death of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick on Sunday night from breast cancer, I knew I had to do a memorial post.
Sedgwick was one of the academics behind the creation of queer theory during the late 80s and early 90s. Her book Epistemology of the Closet has had a profound impact on many fields including LGBT studies and Feminism. She's probably best known for her work on a ideas on the interaction between two views of homosexuality - a 'minoritizing' view, where only gay people as a distinct group have homosexual desires, and a 'universalizing' view, where all people have some degree of homosexual desire. Sedgwick wrote about how both of these views are at play in society and interact with each other. In a review of Epistemology of the Closet, Mark Edmundson summarizes Sedgwick's discussion on how these ideas affect 'gay panic' legal defenses:
The defense plays on the incoherence between minoritizing and universalizing conceptions of sexual identity. "Gay bashing," the juror may suppose, "is something only latent homosexuals do: Those people are sick and deserve judicial mercy." But also (secretly), "That's something I might do: Let's let them off easy." Of course, that thinking sets up scenarios in which anyone ("because we're all a little bit gay") can be identified by another as a homosexual ("someone who's really gay") making an advance, and be assaulted as a consequence. This incoherence leaves everyone, at times, open to blackmail, open to violence...
Anyone interested in queer theory or identity politics should definitely check out her work.
The Nation: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 1950-2009
via Towleroad
Holiday Weekend
Went back home for Easter weekend for the first time since starting college. I haven't been the best Catholic, obviously, so my main reason for going had to do with the fact that my family has been getting along surprisingly well lately. It was the first time all of us were in the same room for a meal in about seven years.
Of course what probably got me through was the fact that my old rock radio station I used to listen to as a kid was playing all 90s metal, so when things got to be too much I was able to go out and drive around listening to old music and feeling nostalgic for my "straight" days. With graduation coming up in a few weeks now I've got a lot to think about, but it was nice to be able to look back for a little while.
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Thursday, April 2, 2009
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