As academics, we have to admit to being big public radio fans, and we try to choose mates with similar, um, proclivities. But, all things considered, Robert Siegel is no Barry White, and there’s a high degree of childlessness and small families among the NPR set. Wye-Wai’s confessional style, however, caused few scandals: there’s really nothing sexy about not doing it. |
Hard on the heels of Heggs’ feature film Being Barney Fife, this paper glows with the ethereal light that only comes with recognition of the Roshomon-esque structure of The Ghost and Mr. Chicken: whose hauntings are they, anyway? he asks. Delivered in his usual mix of hubris and utter disarray, Heggs’ presentation implicates us all. |
We’re still not sure we understand what this presentation was all about, but it sure was fun, since there’s something about a hometown band. And, you know, big, purple hugs. |
Whoever said that there’s nothing sexy about not doing it never met Frere, whose scintillating analysis shows what gives rise between the notes. |
Brown’s #BlackBooksMatter movement has done much to create embarrassment among major publishers, but it has yet to see real progress at the print-house. This presentation brought us up to speed on current plans and suggested permanent redress, all while featuring Brown’s bitterest form of satire. |
Goh and Vanitches make a convincing, yet terrifying case, that the counterculture was, in its own liberatory way, an actual horrorshow. It’s not true that we agree merely because of the threat of dismemberment. |
Catchy, immersive, and engaging, Gilles-Bland somehow made us feel better about what is really just objectification. |
Smartly scheduled right about lunchtime, Chompsky’s presentation almost convinced us that mustard comprises a major component of universal grammar. The “grammar crackers” were a delicious component of post-paper-presentation s’mores, at any rate. |
Korva ColdMan: Frigidity, Relationships, and the Sexual Side-Effects of NPR, a Journal of Confessional Listening
Barney Fife, First-Person: Point-of-View, Personification, and the Re-Evaluation of Don Knotts
Barney, Fife and Drum: Mayberry as Revolutionary Dinosaur Love-Narrative, a Declaration
Privates of Penzance: Sexuality, Suggestion, and Silences, Elisions of Significance on the Musical Stage
Little, Brown, Sambo: Publishing, Principles, and the Promulgation of Racism, a Policy Recommendation 
Norman Mailer Bates: Counter-Cultural Currents and the Rise of Psychopathology, a Horrorshow in Three Ax 
Peter Tom Wolfe: the New Journalism and the (re)Centering of “Centerfold,” a Sing-Along 
Lingua Franco-American: Cookouts and Condiments as Common Language in American Culture, a Brazing