2 is coincidence, 3 is a trend

The Baltimore Sun says that "Does Your Chain Hang Low" is actually just the latest iteration of a subgenre of hip hop called "minstrel rap" (I might argue against the conflation of hip hop and rap, but that's not really the point here). The story references a few other songs, and points to a New York Times article discussing the "Zip Coon" connection.

On Longing by Susan Stewart...I need it.

Does anyone have a copy of Susan Stewart's On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection? The PCL's lone copy is checked out and "on request." If you have a copy, can I please borrow it? I'll be deeply grateful.

Surely somebody must know this

Looking for a book recommendation:

ISO a book that will explain, delineate, etc, narrative forms in film in the 1920s and 1930s.

Should be easy, right? Anybody out there taken a film theory class? John, maybe there's one on your visual culture list or something?

Some friend

James Dobson, of Focus on the Family, was going to help counsel Haggard out of his dreaded and painful homosexuality, but he backed out. "Uh...I'm just really busy right now," he hedged. "It's not that I don't like you. I'm just really busy. Too busy. To focus on your GAYNESS. Gay."

speaking of infections...

you can get $5 flu shots (with student id) today until 4pm at mccombs school of business
and tomorrow noon-4pm at the student services building on dean keaton.

Further Haggard tidbits- the jeremiad never ends!

Click on the title of the post for a great Salon article about Haggard's congregation's reaction to the demise of their pastor. Seeme like the jeremiad is alive and well, at least in Colorado Springs...

Here's a dissertation topic for you...

Can we come up with a name for this style? Redneck chic, anyone?

There was talk of getting t-shirts printed up for the course. I think Waffle House just did it for us.

Jonesy

Wales Millennium Centre - Jones Jones Jones!
I hope your family represented!

Can't hide, sinner

So last year, when I wrote that paper about evangelicals who pray for the souls of cities, this man, Ted Haggard, who is the head of the Natl Evangelical Assn, and the founder of New Life Church in Co. Springs (huge megachurch, I think maybe over 10,000 members), was the author of three of my sources.

In some of those books he recounted experiences sitting outside of "adult bookstores" and gay clubs, waiting to ambush people who came out with the force of his pitying prayer. Sometimes, if the people who came out were members of his church, he'd approach them and see if they "needed his help" getting out of the spiritual pit into which they'd dug themselves.

Now a CO man has come forward telling the world that he and Haggard had sex (that would be GAY sex), and that he helped Haggard score meth. The guy's story is pretty credible - he has recordings of some of the conversations he had with Haggard.

I'm not sure whether to be surprised or not. What makes me mad is that this will probably make no difference in the midterm elections, even though it should, because Haggard has had unprecedented access to the White House (he used to talk to the President or Rove like once a week - that phone line has probably been cut off at this point!). Access which he used to push anti-gay and abstinence-only agendas. Ah, the dark, hypocritical miasma at the heart of that whitened smile...

It's going down

Eat your fishes now, kids. Your offspring will only have your memories.