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The White Father of Two White Girls

I spent about an hour on Twitter talking through @millicentsomer’s Dear Television piece on the Louie premiere with @zunguzungu and @angusjohnston (as well as Lili herself). Check it out. My only note...

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What to a Blogger Is the 5th of July?

* By request, I made a Storify (my first!) of our conversation about Louie 3.1. * Next up in the “definitive takedown” series that has made An und für sich so rightly famous and so terribly feared: the...

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All the Tuesday Night Links, and It’s Really Tuesday This Time, or Maybe...

* I put up a MetaFilter post on the Daniel Tosh rape threat incident that got so much attention today, which is a relatively decent read as Internet comment threads go despite expectedly high rates of...

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Louis C.K. as Rorschach Test

Louis CK’s appearance on the Daily Show last night confirms for me that the guy is some kind of comedy Rorschach test. What I heard was a man talking with sensitivity about rape culture on national TV,...

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Monday Night

* Sandy links: Did Climate Change Help Create ‘Frankenstorm’? “All weather events are affected by climate change because the environment in which they occur is warmer and moister than it used to be.”...

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Saturday Night Live Wins a Game

Well done, C.K.

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Tuesday Night Wrapup

* From the too-good-to-check file: Samuel Beckett Used to Drive André the Giant to School, All They Talked About Was Cricket. * This scandal has everything! Jeb Bush caught up in LEGO-related corporate...

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Happy Monday

* Secret origins of gonzo journalism: “The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved,” by Hunter S. Thompson. * What’s so frustrating about really upper class kids who go on to become elite pundits and...

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Tuesday Morning Links!

* Fear of Stigma Lingers About Use of Family-Friendly Policies. Should You Have a Baby in Grad School? * Don’t Drink Starbucks Free College PR Stunt, Full of Bees. Some details. * Sun Ra: jazz’s...

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Thursday Morning Links!

* In Landmark Decision, U.S. Patent Office Cancels Trademark For Redskins Football Team. So the Redskins will be forced by lost revenue and unrestrained anti-Redskins bootlegs to change their name — at...

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Tuesday Is Soylent Green Day Links

* Exciting news! My book, Octavia E. Butler (the latest in the University of Illinois’s Modern Masters of Science Fiction series) has a November 1 publication date and a pre-order page on Amazon! *...

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Every Possible Monday Link

* 8 Quick Thoughts on the Emmett Rensin Suspension. 21st Century Blacklists in New York. * The second issue of the MOSF Journal of Science Fiction. * Huge, if true: Ongoing Weakness in the Academic Job...

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Fall Break Links! Every Tab I Had Open Is Closed!

* New open-access scholarship: Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling. My contribution is on Rogue One and the crisis of authority that seems to have plagued all the post-Lucas Star Wars...

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Return of the Son of Linkblogging: The Return!

With some new responsibilities post-tenure, a new work-childcare schedule that I’m still getting used to, and some intense end-of-the-summer deadline crunches, I haven’t had the time to do a link post...

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