February 2011
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“[Mary] Talbot (1995) is critical of the creation of a consumer femininity in...”
– Allyson Jule, A Beginner’s Guide to Language and Gender, 2008
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“Mary Pipher (1994) identified in the 1990s how adolescent girls internalise...”
– Allyson Jule, A Beginner’s Guide to Language and Gender, 2008
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Johnny Depp: My favorite comic book character is…
“Oh yeah. I was a rock ‘n’ roll kid, mainly, but prior to age 12, when the rock ‘n’ roll sort of took hold, I was a comic-book head. I liked Sgt. Rock. And I loved the Sub-Mariner. I loved Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner.”
Sweet. Good choice!
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“All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but...”
– Christopher Morley, Where the Blue Begins, 1922
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On Reading Poorly Transcribed Erotica
She stood before him wearing only pantries and he groped for her Volvo under the gauze. She had saved her public hair, and his cook went hard as a fist. They fell to the bad. He shoveled his duck into her posse and all her worm juices spilled out. Still, his enormous election raged on. Her beasts heaved as he sacked them, and his own nibbles went stuff as well. She put her tong in his rear and...
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“Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep...”
– Marya Mannes, But Will It Sell?, 1964
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'Assange, a riddle inside an enigma'
Click for an extract from the first biography of Julian Assange, ‘WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy’, by David Leigh and Luke Harding.
Thought this was an entertaining read. Assange’s got quite an erratic history. Will be tempting to purchase.
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“Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.”
– Cheris Kramarae, Paula Treichler and Ann Russo, A Feminist Dictionary, 1996
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“Would it follow that a life with many happy times in it was worth living? Not...”
– Owen Flanagan, Self Expressions: Mind, Morals, and the Meaning of Life, 1996 