cake or death?

[lolaraincoat]

I had intended to do a year-in-review post, plus also complete a lengthy exegesis of Spike Lee's New Orleans documentary When the Levees Broke (to sum up: wow, wow, wow) but instead I am grading. The second-year survey class is making me suicidal again. We've had the by-now traditional references to "slaves who were badly paid" in the midterms and oh so many more facts which are not. Many of their essays have begun with the dread phrase "In today's society" despite my repeated and specific warnings that if they used that phrase they would be cruelly mocked in front of their peers. They all seem to agree that while everyone has a race, only women have gender; in fact, one student made that idea (and I use the word loosely) the basis of his paper's argument. I have to get through seventeen more of these essays before tomorrow morning's class. Or I guess I could just kill myself now. Augh!

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[hederahelix.livejournal.com]

You know, one of my favorite parts of popslash was that Joey from NSYNC was legendary for wearing vaguely inappropriate t-shirts. (He's allegedly been spotted in ones that say things like "*NSUCK" and "I go to *NSYNC concerts for the pussy." )

When we got photographic proof of him in this one, I about died with the glee. Because on the long list of reasons that popslash has always read as so damned lesbian to me (aside from the fact that early Lance Bass with his bad bleach job looked like any number of women I knew who played rugby, and that Chris Kirkpatrick dressed like half the dykes I know), is that the boys just make it so easy for us to appropriate them as, you know, as ladyjax would say, being into the girly bits.

Glad it helped, and glad you liked my little rendition. Sadly, after last night's batch, I could add more, but some of them pain me too much.