a brief Britney digression (aka
Here’s an example of how, as I wrote in my last post, I’m usually so pro-women as to be considered anti-men when it concerns conflicts between the sexes. I’ve never been a Britney Spears fan, don’t really know her music, her videos, etc., but...Old Spice is for men with a sense of irony, a poetic sensibility, and a sophisticated appreciation of chicks in short shorts
I hesitate to bump Jamie’s musing on the Britney/K-Fed romance, but I caught this Old Spice commercial over the holidays and thought it was significant. Of what, I’m not entirely sure. Some big chunk of it is making fun of the traditional sports-is-life...The plight of the unloved (Asian) man
I just got my new issue of N+1, a New York-based journal that’s the closest thing there is in America, at the moment, to a hip intellectual journal, and the really killer essay in it is by Wesley Yang. It’s called “The Face of Seung-Hui Cho: Virginia...On being lucky
I’ve been thinking, since reading Wesley Yang’s excellent essay on the Virginia Tech shooter, about the fact that for as long as I can remember, even when I was at my most lonely and romantically/sexually desperate, I never felt anything like how Yang...E-Edition
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