by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Nov 10, 2006 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I like this cartoon-y thing (the rest of the which you can read by clicking here) for a few reasons. 1. It’s created by the writer of I Blame the Patriarchy, which is an angry, angry, extremely well-written blog I’ve been perusing lately. Twisty, who...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Nov 12, 2006 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
I have never been able to stomach, let alone enjoy, watching or listening to our great leader . . . until Wednesday. Until then, whenever he came on the radio, I almost frantically jumped to change the station (I do the same with Garrison Keillor, but that’s for...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Nov 14, 2006 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Jamie, I’ve been told (by Jamie), is at work on a magnum opus on the topic of success and envy. The success in question, I believe, belongs to some friends and acquaintances of his. The envy belongs to Jamie. I bring this up because I spent a few hours,...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Nov 15, 2006 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
As Dan noted (save above photo and print so you can say you knew him when!) in his "Demetri and Me" post, I am indeed struggling with writing about fame and its malcontents (F.A.I.M! – a.k.a. Dan and me and most people in America) so far without much...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Nov 16, 2006 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
Here’s another section from the Fame tome I mentioned in my previous post, in which our hero, Subject #263, tells interviewer Carrie-Anne Moss a story, only very slightly embellished, straight from my real life, about fame and its allure in one particular...
