The live exemplification proved her thesis: I bartered a sack of saucisse au poivre for a damn good bottle of a local Sylvaner. But if internet trades are really the future of commerce, how can I convince my ISP to take my art-college pocket-lint sculptures as payment for my bill? |
Keeping up the swingin' theme of this year's conference, B'Dul's
analysis shimmied its way into our hearts by linking the dance
maven's wardrobe to contemporary events. But if black crinoline
really marked the nation's mourning of the assassination of
MLK, and if puffs of lime-green fuzz on Cissy's top told us
it was okay to party again in the '70s, how are we to know ourselves
now that she's adorned in grandmotherly simplicity? Where's
Bobby to help us jitterbug our way through this long slog of
political retrograde? |
Jones' creation of "The Glammy Mammy" through digital
morphing of Al Jolson, Hattie McDaniel, Mrs. Butterworth, and
Halle Berry gave graphic punch to his always cogent prose. But
the shocker was when the screen made its final shift: to the
Tea Party's Obama-as-the-Joker image. It's story, but it's hardly
folky. |
Twissle rocked our bootayz with a thumping thesis: the City of Angels now contains America's foundational myth, and reality TV is its apotheosis. At bottom, it is irrefutable, but are we really that desperate to believe? |
A mindless showing of surgery highlights: Teresa Guidice getting her "bubbies," the Botox party in Orange County, Heidi Montag before and after. Uh, wasn't there supposed to be some commentary? Afterwards, the attendees complained in the lobby and took to various social networking sites to express their irritation. Ulruch stuck his head out in the lobby and said, "That's my point." My friend from kindergarten thinks he's full of it, but this woman I once met in a bar isn't so sure. |
In theory, the wisdom of the crowd makes the best decisions—you know, like it did with the housing market. And the creation of the Tea Party. And the popularity of Jersey Shore. But the stout Mott-Stauffer was not deterred by these stats and unleashed a cage full of uber-rodents on the crowd, cowing us into admitting acceptance of the notion. |
Econotation:
Surviving Troubled Times Through the Subtleties of Online Barter
Cissy
King, On the Fringe: Sartorial Meaning-Making in Popular Dance
Uncle
Rebus: Iconography, Semiotics, and the Politcs of Griopression
Flea
to The Hills: Bass-line Lessons in La-La Land
The
Heidi Montards: Reality TV, Cosmetic Surgery and America's Idiocy
Epidemic
Hyper-Vole:
the Enhanced Evolution of Woodland Mammals through the Unnatural
(S)Election of Crowd-Sourced Decision-Making, an Economics of
Randomized Hate