http://www.historiann.com History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:51:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Historiann went to see Elvis Costello and the Imposters and The Police last night at Red Rocks.  This was my first show at that venue--it's a gorgeous setting in a natural red rocks amphitheatre, very beautiful as the sun sets behind you and the lights of Denver appear.  I never went ... http://www.historiann.com/2008/07/23/please-dont-stand-so-close-to-me/ I've been thinking a great deal about the gendering of the internet, and the ways in which women's blogs (and feminist blogs in particular) are subject to more intense and more personal attacks by male commenters on the blogger and other blog commenters than blogs by men or that don't ... http://www.historiann.com/2008/07/22/gender-sexuality-and-commenters-on-feminist-blogs/ Duh.  (And where are Senators Obama and McCain on this?  Inquiring minds want to know!) Sign the petition, in the name of all that is right and just in the world.  (H/t Lambert at Corrente.) http://www.historiann.com/2008/07/21/deciding-against-planting-an-acorn-is-not-the-moral-equivalent-of-chopping-down-an-oak-tree/ TO:  Sir Paul McCartney FROM:  Historiann RE:  Comments concerning your performance in Québec Congratulations on the successful show, sir--it's wonderful that you were greeted by such a warmly enthusiastic crowd yesterday, and addressing it in French occasionally was a very nice touch.  But in the future, in the course of mollifying one Canadian ethnic ... http://www.historiann.com/2008/07/21/memo-to-sir-paul-colonialism-is-invisible-to-the-colonizer/ Maybe because it's almost back-to-school time, but vaccinations are in the news on my blogroll.  Pal MD has an unintentionally hillarious post about some scandalously stupid reportage on a so-called "victim" of Gardasil.  (Longtime readers will recall that support for inoculation/vaccination are just about the only thing that Historiann has in ... http://www.historiann.com/2008/07/20/back-to-school-report-just-the-vax-mam/ Well, imagine my surprise when I returned from my recent short vacation to find this little invitation in the mail from the University of Colorado.  (While I live in Colorado and work at a university, CU is not my employer--I work at the old aggie school I affectionately refer to ... http://www.historiann.com/2008/07/19/saturday-morning-funnies/ Call me a freeloader, but this seems totally ridiculous.  Since when is it inappropriate to use a university e-mail account and letterhead to apply for another job?  Over at the Chronicle blog "On Hiring," Gene C. Fant, Jr., writes, When I see applications coming in, I really like to see people using their ... http://www.historiann.com/2008/07/18/imaginary-problems-department-faculty-freeloaders-for-using-e-mail-and-letterhead/ "I know it don't thrill you, I hope it don't kill you," as the old (very old!) song goes! Well, Historiann is back from vacation.  (Why can't famille Historiann just rent a beach house somewhere like normal vacationers, instead of doing the Indianapolis 500 from southern New England to Northern New England ... http://www.historiann.com/2008/07/17/welcome-to-the-working-week/ The entire Historiann household has packed up our wagon and we're on our way east for our annual trek through New England.  Regular posting will resume in mid-July!      http://www.historiann.com/2008/07/10/gone-fishin/ By coincidence today, amidst the news of the Senate's capitulation on the FISA vote, I stumbled upon a new installation on collaborative art in the main library at my university, Baa Ram U.  This is a mixed-media merry-go-round of four ponies with questions and answers typed on them that lead the reader/viewer into some ... http://www.historiann.com/2008/07/09/lambert-your-pony-has-arrived-and-man-the-barn-really-stinks-now/