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Pecha Kucha in Public Speaking

By ~LS~ On October 23, 2010 · Add Comment · In Pedagogy, Rhetoric, Technology and tagged Tagged With: For Wordies, Pedagogy, Rhetoric, Speech, Teaching, Teaching Activities

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Pre-grading Procrastinatory Thoughts

By ~LS~ On September 29, 2010 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: For Wordies, Pop Culture, Silliness, Teaching, Work Sucks

1. Procrastinatory is a real word. I looked. But Webster’s online dictionary is now subscription based. WTF?

2. I’ve decided to wave just like Willow — with large smiles and much enthusiasm. I’ve put this decision into practice. It seems to be going well.

3. After many years of trying to explain in simplistic language why we don’t call Asian people “Oriental,” I’ve finally decided just to show a picture of the world “upside down.”

4. Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp in the same movie? Way too much hawtness in one movie. However will I stand it?

5. My fifth post today. Obviously I’m feeling chatty.

6. Ben Affleck is a better storyteller than he is an actor. To this day I still don’t understand why Kevin Smith let his monologue in Chasing Amy go on for fifteen minutes. He’s [...]

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Ben Franklin’s Facebook Status

By ~LS~ On July 4, 2010 · Add Comment · In Fun Facts, Humor, Random Musings and tagged Tagged With: Al Franken, Books, Facebook, For Wordies, Humor, Silliness

Today’s Times Book Review section has a nicely written, humorous article on Ben Franklin and his Almanac: Ben Franklin is a Big Fat Idiot. The title made it mandatory reading for me given my utter adulation of Al Franken. In fact, the author, Joe Queenan, seems to have as much of a crush on Franklin as I have on Franken.

To his disappointment, Queenan discovered that the Almanac was not nearly as inspirational as he remembered it to be and so he laments the resultant bit of tarnish on Franklin’s halo. His claims that Franklin’s aphorisms failed “the acid test of validity and usefulness.” Take this one, for example: “Keep your mouth wet, feet dry.” Ok, I agree, teh stoopid.

The first thing that came to mind as I read the article was Facebook. Ben Franklin seems to have written down whatever [...]

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Email signatures

By ~LS~ On June 24, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Humor, The Quotidian (yadda yadda), The Web and tagged Tagged With: For Wordies, Silliness, Weird Stuff

Lately I’ve been getting a lot of email with a certain type of signature file that cracks me up. Usually the emails are from people in corporate offices, but some people at school have them too. They are wordy, legalistic disclaimers about privacy and liability. They are often difficult to understand and they sound full of it. I know the people who have these signatures attached to their emails usually have no control over their presence. In some cases, though, that’s not the truth.

So I’m taking revenge. I have written my own signature file and here it is:

Caution: electronic email sent through the internet is not secure and could be intercepted by CARNIVORE, Echelon, NarusInsight, Amazon.com, Google.com, or other government or commercial surveillance entities. For your protection, do not send any information whatsoever over the internet. Any information that you do send will be considered the intellectual property [...]

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A day of lessons in stereotypes

By ~LS~ On March 25, 2010 · Add Comment · In I have to work?, Politics, Race and Racism and tagged Tagged With: BRCC, For Wordies, Pedagogy, Race

Today has been an interesting lesson in stereotypes.

Lesson one:

I had a guest speaker from Deaf Services in BR come to my Interpersonal Communication class. He was dynamic and interesting and the students loved him. Before his visit, I decided to learn a little more about Deaf culture the capital D is important to people in the Deaf community). I’ve been fascinated about it ever since a friend of mine demonstrated the way that sign language is not a literal interpretation but a more poetic one. She did this by signing a song. I’ve learned a long time ago that it’s your responsibility to educate yourself about others who are culturally different rather than to expect them to translate for you. I think the most memorable statement came from Audre Lorde who said that white women expect women of color to “stretch across the gap of ignorance.” So in [...]

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Pornification

By ~LS~ On February 25, 2010 · Add Comment · In Capitalism, Feminism, Generations, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Consumption, Feminism, For Wordies, Generations, Pop Culture, Rape, Sex, Sexism

Recently on WMST-L, the Women’s Studies discussion list, someone posted a call for papers about porn culture. The call was clearly anti-porn and the posting provoked a brief but rapid pro-/anti-porn debate before the moderator shut it down for being inappropriate to the mission of the list. Those old issues from the feminist sex wars still prickle at us feminists and I’m predictably on the fence about porn. I content myself to remember the title of the book, Pleasure and Danger, because porn is both those things, a crucial point about sex that we should always remember.

But one thing that does bother me is the pornification of consumer culture. I mean this in a different way than the typical use of the term as a comment on the how advertising borrows heavily from porn’s tropes and porn itself has infiltrated every aspect of popular culture. I’m [...]

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