Stephanie–I’m sure there is a real person blogging for the dolls (although I wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out it was generated by some kind of auto-blog software–although if we adhere to the principle “blogito ergo sum” then maybe that’s a person too). Actually, I’d be comforted if either there was a different person blogging for each doll or…
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So Robin’s watching TV this afternoon and sees a commercial for a new line of dolls, which she later characterizes to me as “Teen Slut Barbie.” We do some investigating and find that the dolls are part of a new Barbie spinoff called My Scene. It seems to be a kind of toned-down “Sex and the City” theme–the dolls seem…
A study in blog ecology (all times local to the poster): Saturday 4/19 11:19 a.m.: Anastasios Kozaitis posts message titled “THE LATEST THEORY IS THAT THEORY DOESN’T MATTER” on Buffalo Poetics list. Numerous posts follow. Saturday 3:09 p.m.: Nick LoLordo posts on the issue to the Poetics list. Sunday evening 4/20: Since I get the Poetics list in digest form,…
“K. Silem Mohammad floats like a Butterball and sings like a bee.” He said it, I didn’t–though I wish I had! Also love his reading of a Milton sonnet on the site–you know, it would be cool to see other bloggers taking on some poems that aren’t contemporary like that. Seeing Milton in this context really made me aware of…
Sandra has jumped on the Chinese poetry translation/imitation/satire/parody bandwagon. Welcome!
Joseph Duemer has posted the text of the “SUV poem” that got Stephanie so steamed when she read an article about it in the Oregonian. While I appreciate Duemer’s attempt to actually subject the poem to a (at least semi-)serious analysis, I honestly think the most important touchstone here isn’t Marianne Moore or even spirituals but our great American poet…
Adam Novy, a Chicago fiction writer, wrote to me a couple days ago with some good observations about the whole “theory doesn’t matter” dust-up: “All of us seem to struggle with this theory business, and how poetry (or fiction, which is what I write) “influenced” by “theory” (which probably includes Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Lacan, Derrida, Julia Kristeva, maybe Blanchot, I…
Gary Sullivan has thoughtfully posted “70 Lines from the Chinese,” the poem that caused the back-and-forth between me and David. I’m glad he did–I was beginning to feel pretty strange having this whole debate about a review of a poem I’d never read… I actually got a kick out of reading the poem–it does strike me as pretty funnily melodramatic…
From a transcript of Santorum’s interview with the Associated Press: SANTORUM: Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that’s what? Children. Monogamous relationships. In every society,…
First we had Trent Lott, then Howard Coble. Now we have Rick Santorum. I guess the Republicans really do believe in equal opportunity.