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cumulative work 24 Feb 2010 | 08:35 pm
For its 1.5 years as an active platform, PF helped me cultivate the point of view, style and content for my study of “The Twist.” Read it here: View this document on Scribd
Ms. Magazine 19 Jan 2009 | 11:40 pm
While New York City has apparently been hosting a historical reenactment of the Ice Age, my line-of-sight has been basically limited to whatever I can make out through that moist hole my zipped up jac...
The Bitch Bailout 16 Jan 2009 | 04:31 am
A few months ago, Bitch Magazine asked for handouts from the feminist community. In their words “We need to raise $40,000 by October 15th in order to print the next issue of Bitch.” Even though my con...
Prostitution 2.0 15 Jan 2009 | 07:29 am
There’s no better way to describe my moral reaction to Natalie Dylan’s scheme to auction off her virginity than extreme indifference. I’m utterly burning in the white-heat of neutrality. What supposed...
Playboy’s 55 Most Important People in Sex 14 Jan 2009 | 02:01 am
This list, while flawed, beautifully illustrates my earlier proposal that we should place sex at the imaginative center of feminism, not politics. Every one of the figures below is a rich subject for ...
Motown’s 50th and in Defense of the Single 12 Jan 2009 | 05:50 am
In 1959 Berry Gordy founded Motown Records. This year is the 50th anniversary of what I consider to be the greatest record label in pop music history. The beauty of Motown rests in its general commitm...
D.F. Wallace on Irony, Fiction, and Television 9 Jan 2009 | 10:19 am
After the tragic suicide of David Foster Wallace in September, everyone with a basic grasp of the written word took it upon themselves to make me feel like a miserable fraud for never having read him ...
The Decline of the Human Subject in Children’s Films 6 Jan 2009 | 12:38 pm
An axiom: Finding Nemo is a visually decadent masterpiece. Though we may indulge in the cheap and strangely commonplace pleasures of cultural fatalism ([fill-in-the-blank] today just isn’t what it use...
On Reading Twilight: You Can’t Make Me 31 Dec 2008 | 08:23 pm
It’s true. Though friends and readers futilely continue to urge, I refuse to read Twilight. Yes, my official position is in staunch opposition to elitism, but my the itty bitty tweed-clad side of me i...
Narcissism: The Contemporary (Male) Condition 30 Dec 2008 | 05:15 am
You must read metrosexual-term-coiner Mark Simpson’s analysis of this D&G Time ad: Contrary to what you may have heard, metrosexuality is not about ‘feminized’ males – or even about straight men ‘act...
