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More on Boing Boing and Violet Blue…
Violet Blue kindly responded to my recent post about the L.A. Times story concerning how Xeni Jardin, one of the Boing Boing editors, removed references and links to her. You can find Ms. Blue’s comments here. To recap, Ms. Blue utterly denies that Boing Boing removing links to her and her work would have any [...]
BoingBoing Brouhaha… L.A. Times Misses Story
Down below the fold of today’s entertainment section at the print edition of the Los Angeles Times is a nice little “Web Scout” column by David Sarno about BoingBoing editor Xeni Jardin quietly unpublishing posts that linked to her former close friend or relationship partner (Jardin is unclear about this, as is her right) Violet [...]
More on “I like big BOOKS and I cannot lie”
Note: this is a continuation of my last post. Digging into this image: The joke hinges on a simple substitution of the word “books” for “butts,” but that substitution creates a collision of two opposite sensibilities. Sir Mix-A-Lot’s song is about a public, joyous, Rabelaisian and loudly-proclaimed love of the bodily and sensual– complete with [...]
Harry Potter meets Sir Mix-A-Lot
I recently ran across this funny t-shirt design, which some college friends pointed out in an email list we all share, and it has stuck with me as a wonderful example of where fat old mass culture and our new, more nimble and infinitely more fragmented niche or slice culture intersect. Take a look: The [...]
Facebook as serendipity engine
I check Facebook several times each day, each time for a minute or two. I have it on my Treo and can check it in bad traffic (yeah, yeah, I know) and enjoy how it keeps me connected or reconnects me with people as young in my acquaintance as today and as old as high [...]
