I recently became obsessed with Hamilton the musical, just like the rest of America. It came into my life during NaNoWriMo, and I found the timing serendipitous. I was so inspired by the marriage of hiphop and American history that I figured the words would flow from my mind faster than my fingers could type […]
Brandi Carlile and I are the same age. Even if it weren’t true in human years, we would be the same age in soul years. She gets me. We are soul mates not in a romantic sense but in the sense that her soul tells my soul what it feels because my soul is cripplingly […]
I started watching Glee this season.  I was late to the party, as usual.  I don’t know what went on last season because I only watched one episode, the Lady Gaga-themed one called “Theatricality.† I don’t suppose I have to tell you that this part made me cry. (Forgive the quality of the video. It […]
It seems fitting that this event—this significant cultural moment—will go down as the only noteworthy thing that happened in November of 2010 according to my blog. I succumbed quite willingly to the hype surrounding the New Kids on the Block/Backstreet Boys performance at the American Music Awards last night, and it was basically exactly what […]
In women’s studies, we make a fair bit of fun of people who tend to preface their statements with “I’m not a feminist, but…â€Â And when we aren’t mocking these people, we’re discussing how their rejection of the term indicates its historical misuse and derogation by the media. Obviously, I don’t have a problem with […]