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Who are your Heavy Friends?

Posted on October 06, 2008
Isn't amazing how YouTube always seems to... amaze? Here's the artistry of Screamin' Lord Sutch - who many consider to be the grandfather of Goth/Shock almost a decade before the Alice Cooper's of the world came on the scene. His most notorious album was Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends, which had the likes of Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, John Bonham and is largely considered to be one of the worst albums of all time - as Sutch was lacking serious vocal talent, especially considering the musicians with whom he worked...

the hudsucker proxy

Posted on October 06, 2008
An enjoyable film, available for instant viewing on Netflix! Kind of strange to watch it during the current economic climate, though. Also can't help but wonder what the rules about leveraged buyouts were in 1959, such that the board felt like it needed a dummy president to drive down the price of the company's stock so that they could buy up the shares...

things I am excited about

Posted on October 05, 2008
1. Cognitive sociology2. Gerd Gigerenzer's heuristics literature.3. Nicholas Epley's perspective taking studies.All three are related, and were I actually fluent in the literatures I could explain how.Also, admin law in the news.

weekend report

Posted on October 05, 2008
What I actually ended up doing (and for which Wolfson will probably judge me and my tastes):We didn't end up doing the performance art flash mob thing. Instead I made a pretty terrific baked challah bread pudding (made with homemade challah, my challah was a little dry but beautiful, but hey, it was my first time baking bread!)...

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ig nobel

Posted on October 03, 2008
Seriously, how do you use Diet Coke as a contraceptive? Like, do you pour it over stuff, or do you merely ingest it as usual? Look, the linked article doesn't say. But apparently the study is wrong, and I guess you would pour that effervescent stuff over junk as they did in a petri dish...

Froomkin's Roundups

Posted on October 03, 2008
Law prof Michael Froomkin publishes an excellent roundup of "McBush/McSame Bashing" every Friday that I always find informative and provocative.

and don't think I'm not serious about this

Posted on October 02, 2008
If she says "Joe Sixpack" one more time, I swear I will bake another batch of challah so that I can punch down dough, because I'm like, non-violent and stuff.The other option, were I the violent type, would be trying to track down a Palin-supporter in Liberal College Town and smacking them upside the head and telling them "now let that be a lesson to you all...

why sarah palin is bad for feminism

Posted on October 02, 2008
Emily Bazelon says it all:So instead of bowing out, she heads into her debate with Joe Biden with expectations so low either she or her opponent seems bound to trip over them. For women who are watching this all unfold, this means a lot of analysis, much of it angst-ridden...

possible things to do this weekend

Posted on October 02, 2008
None of these are really mutually exclusive:1. Participate in performance art flash mob thing.2. Try to find a showing of "Religulous."3. Go to the planetarium.Votes?

New Kid on one difference b/t law and grad school

Posted on October 02, 2008
#1,004: You can wear bright pink polish unironically.I totally gets what she means. At the graduate level in the humanities departments, you can only cop to liking mainsteam, plebeian amusements in an ironic way, or in a socially critiquing way. I suppose, if I liked watching shows about rich white people, I would say that I was ironically into Gossip Girl for a class analysis of the noblesse-sans-oblige and their Teutonic-sounding last names...

not as advertised

Posted on September 30, 2008
Things that lie:1. Nextbus.com. Damn bus is never there, satellite tracking or whatever.2. Peds' "no show" socks. They show!3. CBS News. Journalistic integrity my visibly sock-clad foot.

jeremy thinks it's the end of the world. do you?

Posted on September 30, 2008
My post-apocalyptic skills are as bad as Jeremy's. So, what do I do, knit my way out of this financial crisis? Bake cookies and hope that they can be exchanged for penicillin?I was talking to TD about the financial crisis, and all I know is that the House rejected the proposal, thus fulfilling it's part of the bicameralism-and-presentment part of the whole Constitutional structure, but that the bill will probably be amended and adjusted and voted on again with the same mandatory Constitutional process, however long that takes while the economy goes further down the tanker...

the soft bigotry of low expectations

Posted on September 30, 2008
This is just plain sad:?I think she has pretty thoroughly ? and probably irretrievably ? proven that she is not up to the job of being president of the United States,? David Frum, a former speechwriter for President Bush who is now a conservative columnist, said in an interview...

weekend report

Posted on September 28, 2008
What a great weekend. I don't have classes on Friday, and he took his Blackberry on the road and phoned it in (literally, as we had to pull over while he participated in a conference call). I found ingenious ways to pre-prepare and pack jambalaya and a gateau de crepes for his birthday dinner, and our one-room cottage was cozy and comfortable, with a little iron stove and a tiny kitchenette that reminded me of my 300 sq...

I Hate Gwyneth Paltrow

Posted on September 26, 2008
I have a strange attitude towards celebrity culture--I hate it, but I can't seem to tear my eyes away from the stray bits of copy I might by chance encounter via Jezebel or the supermarket checkout line. It is not unlike watching a trainwreck. But while we may feel some obligation to look on the plight of our fellow man and sympathize and help (kind of like why some suggest making eye contact with a stranger during a crisis in order to get them to help you), there is nothing redeemable and everything awful with paying attention to celebrities...

I hope you're in a good mood this morning

Posted on September 25, 2008
I recently heard a presentation by Nancy Rothbard of Wharton on employee emotional affective reactions and their effect on work performance. Her study is fascinating (I won't cite from it, as it's a work in progress and under review) in how it operationalized an arguably non-controversial idea: your mood affects how you engage others, and your subsequent interactions throughout a day, and your performance and engagement on the job...

not the response he was looking for, but how do you respond to that?

Posted on September 25, 2008
The butcher shop is totally a place to get hit on, if one were into that. One of the guys is still quite attentive, although he hasn't stepped it up from asking me what I'm doing this weekend, to which, I presume, one could do more than reply "brunch and laundry...

stuff that's in my head but not on my blog

Posted on September 24, 2008
1. Michele Lamont's Money, Morals and Manners. Excellent comparative study of French and American white upper middle class men and the values they identify when they create boundaries and distinctions between themselves and others--moral, socioeconomic, and cultural...

You know you are truly batshit insane when...

Posted on September 24, 2008
You wake up shaking from a nightmare in which you've spent all your worldly wealth by buying over $7,000.00 worth of Peeps. Yes, Peeps. I'm pretty sure nobody's ever bought $7,000.00 worth of Peeps, total, in their entire life. Except possibly advanced scientific labs (perhaps the dream was a very indirect form of dissertation anxiety!!)...

pedagogy in the news

Posted on September 22, 2008
I'll be traveling for most of tomorrow and then going straight to class and then straight to bed, but for now, some links from today's NYT magazine:Bad teaching evaluations can ruin your life if you are a bad or polarizing teacher who teaches at a liberal arts college that values teaching but are teaching evaluations a really good metric of teaching ability or are they really just bad mirrors of student dis/satisfaction? (in a nutshell, without proper grammar)...

friday non-blogging

Posted on September 19, 2008
I dig this song. Video is a little creepy with all of those dismembered legs and gyrating bodies though. Like what is this, a Fifty Cent video? But you try to find a non-objectifying music video. I blame the patriarchy. Actually I have no idea what this video is supposed to mean...

palin baby name generator

Posted on September 18, 2008
Here.Mine:Belle Lettre, if you were born to Sarah Palin, your name would be:Krinkle Bearcat PalinVia Kaimi at Concurring Opinions

admin law in the news!

Posted on September 18, 2008
I've been meaning to post on the Dept. of the Interior's sex, drugs, and rock and roll scandal, but for now, this!:ABC News' David Wright reports: At a joint rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Thursday, Republican John McCain slammed the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) for being "asleep at the switch" saying that if he were president, he would fire Chris Cox, the chairman of the SEC since 2005 and a former Republican congressman...

genius idea that makes me sound high

Posted on September 18, 2008
I've actually never been stoned (no, really!), but I got up early to do work and prep tonight's dinner, and I was thinking that they should make a tubular tupperware so that you can pour your garlic-ginger-lime-chili (with honey) marinade over your 1...

i need to connect my TV

Posted on September 18, 2008
Last night we went to a benefit thing for our local public broadcasting system, which introduced a lot of new programming for both the radio and the local public television. We went because his company is helping them with their "Green Initiative," and because it's fun to eat appetizers and mill around gold sponsor watching (a lot of scarves) and watch an hour of previews...

things I find annoying, #1,006

Posted on September 17, 2008
This whole "lifestyle branding." Probably why I never pulled a Gatsby and coveted the stylings of Brooks Brothers, Polo Ralph Lauren (really now...), or even the vulgar version of Abercrombie and Fitch (which used to be a real outfitter for the likes of T...

oh no she didn't

Posted on September 16, 2008
Frances Bean Cobain blogs!The teenage years I'm forced to take part of are supposed to be about "finding myself" and discovering what is right and what is wrong. How can i possibly go about doing such a thing if every move i make is under the scrutiny of the public eye...

veronica mars

Posted on September 16, 2008
I liked Season 1. I kept thinking it was set in Newport Beach, when clearly it must have been some suburb in San Diego, and then I realized that no one outside of Southern California would have been able to tell the difference. I liked the snappy, plucky heroine and her pariah status among the rich spoiled brats who once called her their own...

random roundup

Posted on September 16, 2008
Apologies for the lack of interesting, original content of late. Things have been busy. I have actually resorted to Leechblocking myself from most sites of interesting content, and trying not to read too much political coverage because I used to be prone to anxiety attacks...

mixology

Posted on September 16, 2008
I have found that I am better at making mixes for others than for myself, even an emotion centered mix (dude, I'm sorry your grandmother died; mazel tov on your baby, etc.). Road trip mixes notwithstanding, when I try to make a mix for myself, it ends up being extremely emo and too narrowly single-genre...

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