Virginia Woolf’s notion of a “room of one’s own” in which women could be freed from the responsibilities of domestic life had a good deal of resonance when she postulated it in the first half of the 20th Century. It could easily be argued that women, who still perform the bulk of housework, still need [...]
Judge Says Artist Can Make Fun of Barbie
It’s about time we regain some of our rights as Americans and making fun of our products is one of those. Thank you, activist judges!
Mattel was instructed by the courts to pay artist Tom Forsythe $1.8 million in legal fees after a series of lawsuits for copyright and [...]
The Missouri Review Rejects George W. Bush’s Poem
Dear Mr. President, I speak only for myself and not the entire editorial staff of the EastWesterly Review, but we would publish your poem for a small fee—let’s just say it would be less than $80 billion dollars. You do understand how things work when submissions are not [...]
Tack-O-Rama Home Page
While I wish they did more research in the design and other sections, it’s still a fun site. The promise of fonts and clipart are nice, and I’m sure one of the wallpaper patterns might end up on one of the computers I manage. You can see their e-cards are similar to our [...]
Lost in Translation
English: “Something tells me I’m into something good.”
Back into English from Korean: “The I in my place the good thing the fact being it silence silence it
is thin and it pays attention.”
T.S. Eliot would wet his bunched-up widdle shorts in glee with the multi-lingual possibilities.
You can get all smart and stuff, at least if you have really good reading comprehension skills and don’t need feedback, online for free now. Of course, MIT is just not MIT without the wacky pranks. See the syllabi, course resources, and so on for classes like “Does Poetry Matter” and “The Art of Counting”. [...]