NYMAG.com, Lacan, Mad Men…

Good job, Culture Vulture.
I’d say your Lacanian analysis of the newest episode of Mad Men was pretty strong. You did miss out on an interesting aberration in the psychoanalytic schema, that being Bettie Draper. 
This woman has no mirror, no ‘Ideal-I’, as Lacan puts it in his impossibly dense treatise on “The Mirror Stage”. She represents [...]

Sarah Palin Debacle

UGH!
I just had a ridiculous, 30+ min convo with my Papi about the Bristol Palin scandal burning up the wires. It’s ridiculous! Needless to say, the veep candidate was NOT vetted. (Where is K. Rove when you need him?!) Talk about skeletons in the closet, or, um, the womb… 
No one can deny that the GOP [...]

This Election Isn’t About Me, It’s About…Hillary?”

Get off your knees Joe Scarborough. Barack Obama straight up stole the line – “This election isn’t about me, it’s about YOU” – in his keynote DNC speech from Hillary Clinton’s rhetorical arsenal. This is what she has been saying all freaking year, people! Verbatim. I just may vote for John McCain, especially if his [...]

Hillary at the DNC

I just witnessed a sad feat while gorging on pasta and bread after a long day of work (yes! I got a job managing a juice bar!) According to MSNBC tv, Hillary Clinton just elected to give her delegates to Obams as announced by Nancy Pelosi (in a very chic suit)…
I have my own theory [...]

It’s the All Boys Club at the Box Office

In what turned out to be my last precious hours before a traumatic flying experience (wait, that’s redundant) I happened to catch most of Ben Stiller’s newest raunch fest “Tropic Thunder”. Besides a rather disturbing opening sequence that I was hopelessly unprepared for, the scatological humor and endless political incorrectness made me laugh in spite [...]

ALL MY EXES LIVE IN TEXASDARLIN

My guilty pleasure these days: reading every shred of blogosphere dedicated to Barack Barry Hussein Soetoro Obama Durham Jr.’s Birth Certificate. And no one feeds the monkey like Texasdarlin, one of wordpress’s own. Thanks for your commitment, I know that HRC is quietly cheering you.

Can I Get an Amen?

I can’t be the only college grad struggling to find a good job. At least that is what I keep telling myself. I wouldn’t attribute the failure to lack of trying, I’ve certainly sent out enough resumes and filled in enough online applications. Maybe it’s my almost inapplicable Russian Major that is preventing me from [...]

Mad Women

O my, why are we obsessed with Mad Men?! 
Thursday’s Child and I were recently having a lively discussion about Betty Draper and why she’s such an evil bitch on the show. We ask, why do the writers portray her as an entitled spoiled wife who resents her children, as opposed to a sympathetic woman whose [...]

It’s Spelled Blogher…

Maybe we should all start posting as men, George Eliot steez. Is it that we are women that our blogs aren’t taking off? Is it that we are bad writers? Or is it simply that we talk about things that (less than half) the population couldn’t give a shit about like breast-feeding?
Check it out in [...]

Response to last post

Speaking as an unemployed just-grad myself, I have been thinking about taking that exact same path suggested in the last post. But two things are keeping me from plunging headlong into 3-4 more years of college: a) don’t want to shell out the 100,000 bones, b) am worried that I will end up with a [...]