Archives

And I don't know why, but mysteriously, parts of my blog archives don't seem to work. Some of them are just fine, but some are apparently just not there. EEEK! I need to figure this out, because what's the point of having a blog if your blog leaves and goes off into cyberspace? ::sigh::

Website I like

Bitch | Feminist Response to Pop Culture
I found this magazine today, while lurking about the Internet looking for useful stuff about Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (Yes, it is TOO working on the dissertation.... and I am totally NOT defensive about the Buffy part.) So I am capable of getting distracted by magazines like Bitch (but in a way, not, cause it's about feminism, and the popular sort, kinda, so there).

But anyway. Check it out. I might just have to try to write something for them someday when they post new "we need writers for..." statements. That'd be cool. Plus, I like their name.

And I happen to have written four whole pages on my Buffy chapter. :)

Cats

I just wanted to add this here since it was something I just read on Gaiman's website: "the law of Conservation of Cats"-- which basically is if you lose a cat, you will certainly be presented with a new one to take care of. I want to think about that more; but for now, I have other things to do.... it's here to remind me to think.


I wish reminders were always that easy.

Dissertation

Well, I've finally finished the Summer 2003 issue of Women Writers. It's a really great issue-- Lisa Johnson did a wonderful job with the "autotheory" issue. It's our first "special issue" and I'm going to do one for the Winter issue, too, I think. I've got to put out a call for proposals... I really ought to do that now. (thinking of things to say in the call.....)


So now I have absolutely no excuse-- I should be working on the dissertation. I actually have done so this morning by reading this Buffy theory book Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy. It's a good philosphy text; it introduces concepts from basic philosophy in relation to Sunnydale & the Buffyverse. It's already proven very useful in letting me know of the existence of a place where I can get shooting scripts for the most recent season of Buffy, as well as Slayage, the "online journal of Buffy Studies." I already know about Television Without Pity, which is less useful for academic things but really interesting for a look at the popular idea of Buffy + theory & debate. So this is what I'm doing right now. Interesting, huh? And for those of you who think my whole "dissertation" thing is a scam and excuse for me to watch TV, I say "duh."


Anyhoo. Back to the readage. And maybe a nap. I think well when I'm napping-- some of my best papers ever came to me while in the twilight zone between nap & awake-- where the academic muse can find us and we're not distracted by other things. It's hard for her to get out of that Ivory Tower you know.

Drag Queen 2

I just got this email:
"I just want to say I loved the review at amazon .com. I have said for years that I am a drag queen trapped in a straight girl's body. I am also a radical feminist who loves red lipstick. I have just discovered your web site & plan to be a frequent visitor."
Carla


Yay! A fan who isn't required to be one by already being a friend of mine! Hee hee. Also, I secretly suspected that there were many drag queens in a woman's body out there. Now I have proof that there are at least two of us. If you are a girl-drag-queen too, write, and we'll form a club or something. Of course, I think a "club" might be entirely too organized a concept for a true drag queen. Maybe form a loose alliance, with territories mapped off, like lion prides.