by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jul 9, 2009 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Sarah Gibbons over at Cherchez La Femme posted about the death of choreographer Pina Bausch this week. Sarah also mentioned Ed McMahon, Michael, Farrah, as well, but left out Billy Mays, Gale Storm, and, well, if you're into this kind of thing, the list goes on...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jul 16, 2009 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
On and off, I play poker online. Three weeks ago, while playing, I was looking up the players I was sitting with on the ole webbarooni (not worth going into, but there are ways to research your opponents as you play them) and saw that one of them, Amir Lehavot...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Jul 28, 2009 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
More on poker, and race. First off, Amir, from my previous post, finished well into the money in the Main Event of the World Series of Poker, coming in 226th out of 6,494 for $32,963. Not bad for a week's work.In the past few years, the Main Event of the WSOP has...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Aug 7, 2009 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Okay, so this is over the top, to be sure, but, ignorant of much beyond H. L. Gates' name and face and maybe a sound bite (byte?) here or there with Charlie Rose, and having not followed the arrest story very closely, I did me some late night googling, just to...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Aug 14, 2009 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
About a year ago I had one of my idiot-genius punster moments. Punsters, you know what I’m talking about, when you come up with a bon mot that you think is genius but everyone looks at you like you’re an idiot. (That is until your pun becomes, say, a...
