Objectify This

First of all, this post is long overdue. Listenbetter and Life on Uranus are both excellent contributions to the discussions about life, politics, thongs, and horseracing, among other things. Listenbetter, a wry yet approachable blog, is the brainchild of an proto-journalist whose cutting tongue has won her the admiration of at least one of the [...]

So Lena Chen. Here’s a refresher course. She’s a sexblogger from Harvard who tells stories about her sexploits, with strategically placed psuedonyms and (presumably) enough privacy to retain her sanity and, oh yeah, sell some advertising. Recently, some trouble was roused when her vindictive ex published naked pictures of her on the internet, thus ruining [...]

Despite requests to the contrary, I’m going chthonic. See y’all in a few days.

First, check out the revolutionary dreams of BrooklynSista: she’s got the truth like sojourner and deals deftly with race and politics in the news and popular culture, with a side of Nas’ “One Love” in case things are getting too serious. Then there’s the post-college wasteland. It’s a good thing that other people have lived [...]

So let’s get meta. That’s the parlance of the blogging world, which I joined by accident because I signed up for a class about pop culture last semester. Metablogging is blogging about blogging, as this blog is. It’s called ‘meta’ for short, both by the software that supports the blog itself, and by bloggers in [...]

So, in between waiting for episodes of 30 Rock to download, I got to thinking. Why is it that I so love this TV show about a woman making TV shows, written, produced, directed, and starred in by a Tina Fey, a woman who makes TV shows? Is there perhaps something especially entertaining about entertainment [...]