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Post-SCMS musings on the value of the word acafan louisaellenstein.comRead: louisaellenstein.com
A seemingly objective position is only subjectivity rendered invisible but still implicated.
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SCMS 2011 Workshop: Acafandom and the Future of Fan Studies louisaellenstein.comRead: louisaellenstein.com
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Against Aca-Fandom bogost.comRead: bogost.com
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On Disliking Mad Men justtv.wordpress.comRead: justtv.wordpress.com
Frank Oz, on Miss Piggy:
She has a lot of vulnerability, which she has to hide, because of her need to be a superstar.
Quoted in Of Muppets and Men by Christopher Finch 💬📚📺🐸
Kermit, while he is no saint, has achieved a wonderful equilibrium in which a common sense and a hunger for the absurd are nicely balanced. Were he to represent common sense only, he would be a prig; if he represented only hunger for the absurd, he would just be another of the show’s eccentrics. It is the fact that he has managed to embrace both extremes that enables him to function as he does.
Christopher Finch, Of Muppets and Men 💬📚📺🐸
Want to read: Digital Black Feminism by Catherine Knight Steele 📚
Played Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego? via the Internet Archive with M. this morning & explained that Moscow is no longer the capital of the USSR bc the USSR is not a thing. Get the World Almanac from the Internet Archive if you’re going to play. 🎮
What we do is character comedy.
Jerry Juhl, head writer of The Muppet Show, quoted in Of Muppets and Men: The Making of the Muppet Show by Christopher Finch 💬📚📺🐸
Woohoo, I think I wrote the introduction of this article, yay me. Back to chipping away at the lit review…
Here’s me in 2018 unknowingly arguing the key finding of my dissertation: information literacy models should include creation.
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Oh hey I got so excited about becoming Dr. Hirsh that I forgot to share photos of my Data make-up test on my non-cosplay accounts. Here you go! 🖖🏻#Trekkie #StarTrek #StarTrekTNG
Y’all is Kevin Feige okay? Has he ever, you know, been outside? Somebody should probably take him to a park.
Am I always tired because I’m:
A) a newly minted PhD recovering from dissertating
B) the parent of a young child
C) a person living with chronic illness
D) about to turn 40
E) all of the above
(Pretty sure the answer is E.)
Biggest takeaway from the first 5 episodes of SHADOW & BONE is that I want to get really good at embroidery & goldwork and make all the keftas. Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous. 📺
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Rebuilding the Web We Lost anildash.comRead: anildash.com
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The Web We Lost anildash.comRead: anildash.com
O hai.
the early blogosphere was full of people who obsessed over “correctly” labeling and organizing content.
Anil Dash, The Lost Infrastructure of Social Media
Finished reading: Amelia Bedelia and the Surprise Shower by Peggy Parish and Barbara Siegel Thomas 📚
I have been so focused on writing my dissertation for so long that it’s a challenge to write a lit review short enough for a journal article. 📝