Two more weeks until finals! Let the countdown begin! Patrick Goddard — Ordinary Folk Desmond Reed — Guinea Pigs World Famous Audio Hacker — Sabbath Snoopelin (Remix) Pheugoo — Rock Your Body Everyday People Black Eyed Peas (feat. Justin Timberlake) — My Style Strike Anywhere — Instinct Pat Benatar — Heartbreaker 7 Year Bitch — [...]

For one of my research papers this semester I’m looking into how LGBTQ* individuals present themselves, what they talk about, issues of identity that are (or are not) addressed, and the conversations spurred (among other things), as mediated through video blogs (vlogs), specifically on YouTube. I love YouTube. While trying to find relevant literature (for [...]

The Partner and I went out tonight — gasp! I know — (1) to celebrate his raise and (2) to stave off my impending mental breakdown with The Demon Liquor. Know the theme song from Absolutely Fabulous? Well, I am a wheel, and I shall surely explode by April 30th. Care to make bets? We [...]

Those of us who participate in this nerdy meme obviously love music. Are we nerdy about our media players, too? I am. I’m a fan of Winamp and have been using it for years now to play music and video (when it will play the video, that is; otherwise I use VLC). I have one [...]

For my queer theory class we are reading Trumpet: A Novel (1998) by Jackie Kay. A poet, this was Kay’s first novel, based loosely upon the life of jazz musician Billy Tipton. I picked it up yesterday afternoon and began to read it. When I put it down an hour or so later, I was [...]