Archive for the 'books' Category

Songs I Am Currently Enjoying Exhibit H: “My Whole Family Thinks I’m Gay,” by Bo Burnham

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

My Family Thinks Im Gay - Watch more Funny Videos
So, the sound quality isn’t so great, but the premise is provacative, but handled well — he avoids suggesting that being gay is bad, just that sticks to griping about how frustrating to have his family make assumptions about his sexuality while lampooning stereotypes of gay […]

Public Service Announcement: Free Comic Book Day

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

Dr. Fredric Wertham warned of the dangers of comics for young minds. [source]
Be advised that it is Free Comic Book Day, and you should therefore go to your local comic store and pick up something — for free. While the assortment varies by store, and not every comic book store is on board, there […]

Pre-order Republic of Barbecue

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Republic of Barbecue: Stories Beyond the Brisket
Republic of Barbecue: Stories Beyond the Brisket is the result of a massive amount of work by a team of eleven graduate students (including myself) working under Dr. Elizabeth Engelhardt in collaboration with the Southern Foodways Alliance and the Central Texas Barbecue Association. The book features excerpts from the […]

The Informers about to hit screens

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Trailer for the Informers. [source]
The above trailer is for the latest cinematic adaptation of a Bret Easton Ellis book, the Informers. As an undergraduate, I did some fairly significant research on Bret Easton Ellis’s work, and believed at one point that his work was the sort of thing I would study in graduate school. Through […]

Amazon’s big glitch

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

RN Lee’s Amazon Fail logo from Cheryl’s Musings. [source]
For those of you haven’t heard yet: Amazon stripped a bunch of books dealing with sexuality of their sales rankings, a manuever that disproportionately affected books addressing issues of interest to the glbtq community and/or involving glbtq characters. People on Twitter got hacked and started posting and […]