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RetroPop: Pride & Prejudice & Carly Rae Jepsen
Welcome to the first proper installment of RetroPop! A blog in which I, your humble guest writer, bring together my loves for the Billboard Hot 100 and bodacious bits from female artists of the past. It’s all based on my argument that lady-related pop messages of today are no less worthy... Read more »
Read: An Oral History of Mad Men's Killer Episode "The Other Woman"
The Mad Men fans among us will never forget “The Other Woman.” In a season filled with beautiful, heart-wrenching, affecting episodes, “The Other Woman” stands out as one of the best, and we... Read more »
Seven Must-Hear Bands from this Year's Pickathon Music Festival
It took me two showers to wash off the dirt from Portland-based roots music festival Pickathon last weekend, but I’m still basking in the glow of new music discoveries. Some of my faves after the jump, with links to band websites and performances…
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Bridal Party: You've Unlocked the Bouquet
Oh, Bitch readers. My time with the Bridal Party series is nearing its end. For my penultimate post, I thought I’d share with you something I never knew existed prior to this series. Something so amazing (read: absurd) that I’m not even sure I can develop a critical thought framework... Read more »
Thinking Kink: Playing With Race in BDSM
As with the issue of female sexual submission, racial imagery in a BDSM context is an issue apt to cause heated debates, so I want to include both sides of the argument. Today, I’ll examine the objections to the use of racialized imagery in kink, and in my next post I’ll look at the... Read more »
True Blood: Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Last night’s True Blood started as Bill & Eric’s Excellent Adventure and ended up more like Bill & Eric’s Bogus Journey.
Lafayette is indeed a fine ass motherfucker with some pretty new eyelashes.
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Introducing RetroPop: Connecting Today
The world’s biggest flirt has triumphed over a social revolutionary on the pop charts: Carly Rae Jepsen and her flouncy seven-week chart topper “Call Me Maybe” finally unseated Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” as the longest-running number one single for a female singer with the Interscope... Read more »
Project Runway Season 10: Double Up
Last night was Project Runway’s first team challenge of the season and a blast from the past for longtime fans. How did our designers fare?
Sonjia, you are a treasure.
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Thinking Kink: Gay S&M in Pop Music, Then and Now
Back in 1983, Frankie said “Relax” and a media unsettled by gay S&M did the exact opposite. A generation later, we pride ourselves on being a little cooler with queerness and BDSM, but I suspect there are still some double standards when it comes to gay men getting kinky….
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