Friday, November 23, 2007

Overheard in New York

Blonde: You're seeing your astrologist tomorrow?
Tattooed girl: Yeah, my pussy's been tingling lately, and I need to find out why.
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection

Part memoir and part surrealistic perspective on culture, A Beginner's Guide to Immortality illuminates some of the most mysterious phenomena affecting our species. What is creativity? What are the religious implications of mosquito evolution, simulated Matrix realities, the brain’s own marijuana, and the mathematics of the apocalypse? Could we be a mere software simulation living in a matrix? Who is Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and Emanuel Swedenborg? Did church forefathers eat psychedelic snails? How can we safely expand our minds to become more successful and reason beyond the limits of our own intuition? How can we become immortal?
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Monday, November 19, 2007

Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School

Demonstrates how the "specter of the fag" becomes a disciplinary mechanism for regulating heterosexual as well as homosexual boys and how the "fag discourse" is as much tied to gender as it is to sexuality.
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