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A Splendora Tale

By ~LS~ On February 20, 2010 · Add Comment · In This is my life? and tagged Tagged With: Splendora, Texas

Link-o-mania – Post-Superbowl Wrapup

By ~LS~ On February 17, 2010 · Add Comment · In Link-o-mania and tagged Tagged With: Obligatory Links

Women in rock: some things never change

By ~LS~ On February 17, 2010 · 2 Comments · In Feminism, Generations, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Baton Rouge, Feminism, Gender, Generations, Music, Pop Culture, Sexism

Baton Rouge has a new radio station: 103.3. Well, not a new radio station but an old station with a new format. The new format is “Music for Generation X.” That’s me, of course. The old format was “Divas” — not for me.

I listened to the station for several hours today and it’s quite a Frankenstein’s monster in terms of genre. They played everything from Nirvana and Guns-n-Roses to C+C Music Factory, with pit stops at Salt – n- Peppa, and REM, not to mention mid to late 80s disco, hip hop, rock, and the weird, bad music that I forgot existed. Funny, though, I recognized every song I heard, which demonstrates the way that our (my!) listening in the 80s and 90s was rather homogeneous despite the generic differences that existed.

Still, after about four hours of listening, guess what…no women in rock. Ok, [...]

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Valentine’s Day 2010

By ~LS~ On February 14, 2010 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Family, Food, Holidays

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Link-o-mania – Ten more for the road

By ~LS~ On February 6, 2010 · Add Comment · In Link-o-mania and tagged Tagged With: Obligatory Links

1. Unhappy Hipster: It’s Lonely in the Modern World — Ever look at Southern Digest at Home or Architectural Living and wonder who the fuck lives in this shit? And what do they do with themselves? Unhappy Hipster offers Stepford families and interior design porn/architecture porn settings. Great captions.

2. Whole Foods Biopower — Whole Foods is tying employee discounts to employee health such as BMI, smoking, and blood pressure. The amount of your discount is contingent on how you measure up. One commenter suggested that government-run healthcare will adopt this model. Scary thought.

3. Today in Rape Culture (from Shakesville)– Offensive on so many levels. A woman got raped in broad daylight in full view and no one stopped to help. The reporters’ chit chat is shocking to me. [...]

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