Roxie's World

You're right that the Doug Aiken piece at the ...

2012-05-21T10:34:25.878-04:00

You're right that the Doug Aiken piece at the Hirshhorm is very un-Washington (and therefore cool)...but there was one projection that was even better. In the early 80s, the Corcoran was supposed to host a show of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs. Before the show opened...much hue and cry...it was the Reagan years, after all. A gallery downtown took up the cause and hosted the exhibit (which was great, but the crowds were overwhelming in the small space).

What happened at the Corcoran was cooler, though. Some activists obtained slides of the images, which they projected on the outside walls of the Corcoran. A couple hundred people showed up...there were flags (U.S. and rainbow), singing, and general hooting at the images and hollering at the Corcoran. There were police on hand, but mostly to keep people from edging into 17th Street and getting run over. It was peaceful, funny, and easily my favorite Happening in my 32 years in DC.

Totes with you on the pleasures of reading other p...

2012-05-21T09:47:24.339-04:00

Totes with you on the pleasures of reading other peoples' mail, Dudley's Human. Goose has made a career out that, as you know. Sorta makes you wonder what kind of stamps poets put on their letters before there were official poet stamps. The mind kinda reels in contemplation of that one, doesn't it? I really must demand that my typist pick up some Owney the Poster Terrier stamps, though. It's unconscionable that we don't have any of those.

Still using our Owney the Postal Terrier stamps an...

2012-05-20T10:37:47.654-04:00

Still using our Owney the Postal Terrier stamps and our Barbara Jordan stamps, so we're not ready to stock up on poets yet. But the reference to Elizabeth Bishop reminds us that another American poet, Joelle Biele, alumna of Queer the Turtle U, has just edited and published Elizabeth Bishop's letters to the New Yorker (Elizabeth Bishop and the New Yorker). Nothing like reading other people's letters, I think!

If this results in more people reading poetry, HOO...

2012-05-20T00:13:40.368-04:00

If this results in more people reading poetry, HOORAY!!! Way to go, Roxie!!!

Oh baby!

2012-05-19T17:37:10.590-04:00

Oh baby!

HAhahahahahaha!!! Good one, Moose. I'll look...

2012-05-19T15:09:48.722-04:00

HAhahahahahaha!!!

Good one, Moose. I'll look for those stamps.

Dark irony!

2012-05-19T14:54:09.764-04:00

*Dark* irony!

Good for her! I'm very sorry the "No&quo...

2012-05-09T22:05:53.092-04:00

Good for her! I'm very sorry the "No" side didn't carry, but every vote still counts.

And I like her tactic of pointing out that we aren't defined by our demographics. Apparently because I attend church at least once a week I'm supposed to oppose marriage equality and support a bunch of other positions that I, in fact, consider decidedly un-Christian. I'm not willing to attach that label to those who do support such positions (and hope they will extend me the same courtesy of respecting individual conscience), but sometimes I wonder what Bible other members of "my" demographic are reading.

Kudos to Cary WASP and the Big Dawg for fighting a...

2012-05-07T18:01:51.399-04:00

Kudos to Cary WASP and the Big Dawg for fighting against such a stupid* law (stupid= all the names that CPP has called it).

CPP--you fucken crack me up! Kelly J.

2012-05-07T17:04:18.339-04:00

CPP--you fucken crack me up!
Kelly J.

I felt the burn. I am now charred.

2012-05-07T11:56:13.936-04:00

I felt the burn. I am now charred.

One hopes that this kind of disgusting hateful bul...

2012-05-07T10:03:38.069-04:00

One hopes that this kind of disgusting hateful bullshitte represents the last gasps of ignorant bigotry from the neoconfederate pig people white christian slime who--thankfully--are losing their demographic capacity to continue fucking this country up.

Thanks, Roxie. I voted early and against, for my n...

2012-05-07T08:20:41.603-04:00

Thanks, Roxie. I voted early and against, for my niece and her partner, my future niece; for all my friends in living domestic partnerships and their children, for everyone else in NC, and for my dogs (if this stupid, mean-spirited thing passes, who knows what will come next? No pets?)

Bitches get stuff done -- and bitching is good for...

2012-05-02T23:28:07.519-04:00

Bitches get stuff done -- and bitching is good for bitches (of all genders).

Ha! Yes, the blogosphere is the perfect place for ...

2012-05-02T23:26:32.316-04:00

Ha! Yes, the blogosphere is the perfect place for a takedown. Too bad poor Fish will never stop by to see it. If only he knew a dead dog was dissing him!

Yes, yes, Physio, your aversion to Twitter is well...

2012-05-02T23:23:47.929-04:00

Yes, yes, Physio, your aversion to Twitter is well known. I'd be willing to bet, though, that if they come up with a social media tool that will fix risotto or automatically pound nails through your, um, you-know-what, you'll be the first guy on the interwebs to have it.

MWAH! Can't wait. I'm investing heavily ...

2012-05-02T22:34:57.947-04:00

MWAH!

Can't wait. I'm investing heavily in SPF 70+ and have my bag nearly packed, 6+ months early.

Aw, shucks, thank you, Janice! Our readers are the...

2012-05-02T21:02:43.496-04:00

Aw, shucks, thank you, Janice! Our readers are the bestest.

Not to worry, Cowgirl. I promise our next referenc...

2012-05-02T20:59:58.914-04:00

Not to worry, Cowgirl. I promise our next reference to Historiann will feature a lasso or a pisco sour. There are limits to what blogging can accomplish -- but we would never have met you without it, so we got no regrets! See you in San Juan, sweetheart.

Thanks for the links, Roxie's typists, and I&#...

2012-05-02T15:11:07.282-04:00

Thanks for the links, Roxie's typists, and I'm not the only one glad to hear that you will still be here for us all. Oh, and if there weren't a blogosphere, how could you make us laugh out loud in your takedown of Stanley Fish? Or snipe back at the "if you don't do exactly what I do, you aren't a Real Digital Humanist (TM)" ethos in the links?

Yeah, something like that.

We try not to get too caught up in the temptati...

2012-05-01T21:54:32.508-04:00
We try not to get too caught up in the temptation to make Grand Proclamations about Technology, Communication, and the Future of Civilization every time some new social media toy comes along that is so much cooler, funner, faster, and easier than blogging. The question for us remains what it has always been: What is the best tool for any particular communicative/strategic goal?

Any tool supposedly designed for *writing* that forbids real grammatical sentences and paragraphs constructed from such sentences can go fucke itself with a rusty fishhook. You will never ever in a million motherfucken years find me putzing around with fucken twitter or pinterest or foursquare or doucheankle or gibberwoot or any other goddamn bullshitte like that ever ever ever infinity bajliion.

Hey Historiann -- creating a space to bitch and wh...

2012-05-01T09:36:05.557-04:00
Hey Historiann -- creating a space to bitch and where others might bitch also creates a space in which work conditions other than those we are bitching about might be imagined and the seeds for practical plans for bringing them into being might be sown. And Janice, hooray for you--"Smart, caring, engaged and awe-inspiring academics--you deserve our commendation." Now that's certainly wonderful to read on this Tuesday with a long, very long To Do list. And Rox, what a wonderful post to wake up to. How marvelous, in fact. Thank you!
--Goose

In the immortal words of Buddy Holly, "A love...

2012-05-01T09:22:23.865-04:00
In the immortal words of Buddy Holly, "A love to last a-more than one day, A love that's love - not fade away" - that's my love for the blogging community we have here.

I hear you all on the exhaustion front. Excellence without Money and without praise is exhausting. But I'm here to say that you rock, here at Roxie's World, and you, too, Historiann! Smart, caring, engaged and awe-inspiring academics - you all deserve our commendation.

Heh--not sure about the graph about me being next ...

2012-05-01T09:14:08.638-04:00
Heh--not sure about the graph about me being next to a Sam's Club-sized metamucil, but I'm totally with you on the energy crisis front. I'm really glad you evoked the ongoing slo-mo destruction of higher ed during the Great Recession, too. I guess I assumed when the global economy nearly collapsed almost 3-1/2 years ago that once things got rolling again, people with college degrees would resume getting jobs & so the attacks on the "value" of higher ed would stop, and the forces that be would lay off & leave us alone.

That hasn't happened, has it? Instead, we're subject to ever more lectures about how adjuncts & online ed can do it bettercheaperfaster, and I'm just tired of the same rhetoric, the same attacks, and the same asinine neoliberal assumptions that undergird all of this.

So, that's why I'm a little tired. Double-dip tired, as a matter of fact, and I'm wondering what the value is in providing a space in which I b!tch about something, and let other people b!tch about it too in the comments. IOW, there are real limits as to what blogging can accomplish.

The cake is (Ruby)red velvet, and there is still a...

2012-04-22T19:10:23.478-04:00
The cake is (Ruby)red velvet, and there is still a good bit left, but there's also lots and lots of palak paneer left from the dinner. You should come by, stuff yourself with spinach -- and let Popeye become your new super strong, ambiguously gay role model!

Hang in there, Will Danger. The force is with you and the Moms are on your side. <3