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on the dawn of SuperMundanity

I’ve been batting around an idea in my head for an academic paper/conference presentation (probably for next year’s PCA/ACA) and I’d like to do something that I’ve done before that has worked out pretty well for me. I want to outsource some of my thinking and brainstorming to the internet. What I’m looking for here…

On the trailer for Cats…

I just watched the trailer for Cats. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtSd844cI7U I have some thoughts… but first some caveats: When I was a little kid, I actually loved this musical. I don’t know why… but Rum Tum Tugger was just one of my favorite songs. I have this movie as one of my picks in the VoxPopcast Box…

21st Century Swearing… for the kids!

I have a weird question for people who know children… that is either you have your own or you just hang out with anyone… I dunno… age five through fifteen or so… often enough to notice the way they speak (nieces, siblings, just random friends, whatever). I was just talking with some friends about the…

Everyone fucking hates Santa!

So, I was talking to my mom about how my niece was terrified of Santa when she was two and at the same time I was also listening to the most recent episode of VoxPopcast(cheap plug, go subscribe to my podcast) where Jessie Sage mentioned that she was afraid of Santa as a kid and…