Today I have a guest post up on Overthinking It, where I spend too much time talking about blood and Greeks and heroes in the Harry Potter series. Have a taste! Voldemort’s mistake is to think that shedding the blood of others will increase his power. In fact, it increases his enemies, as many of [...]
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September 13, 2011
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Attention, Ladies: Michael Bublé and Josh Groban Battle for Your Love
By aliciaaho in Singing, VoicesLong story short: while driving around, I heard the same two songs back-to-back on the radio. This happened a couple of times. One song made me mad, and the other made me cry. And they’re such an essential contradiction to one another that I’m going to write about it here. First Song: “Hollywood” by Michael [...]
June 13, 2011
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This Post is About Badminton, Kinda
By aliciaaho in Ladies, Sartoria, Society, The Arts, UncategorizedMy senior year of college, once winter was officially gone, one of my housemates or neighbors bought a backyard games set from Walmart on a whim. And that’s how I spent half my senior year playing badminton. I’d played occasionally before, like you do as a kid because—let’s face it—badminton has a certain amount of [...]
February 17, 2011
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Intersect Story Map
By aliciaaho in Travel, WritingHave you guys found out about Intersect yet? It’s a lovely idea for a social space: you write a story from your life, and mark the time and place. Then you can browse around chronologically, geographically, or both—to see what other stories have happened in that place, or what other stories were happening around the [...]
Tags: teh internets, Travel, Writing
November 6, 2010
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Pilot Versus Ballerina
By aliciaaho in Gentlemen, Ladies, SocietySometimes, if you are not a cis white dude, life will up and smack you in the face for not being a cis white dude. Even if all you are doing is sitting around typing crappy prose on your laptop. I was doing just that when the love of my life started scrolling through the [...]
Tags: clothes, feminism, masculinity, video games
October 5, 2010
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The Calculus of Medical Notes: Disability and Higher Education
By aliciaaho in SocietyImagine, for a moment, that you are a graduate student teaching assistant in an undergraduate film class at a large state university. You are poorly paid, and entirely untrained. You have a full courseload of your own, and you are teaching a subject in which you have no expertise. Though your union contract stipulates you [...]
September 10, 2010
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Hamm Reduction
By aliciaaho in Gentlemen, Society, TelevisionHere is what you discover when you start reading the latest ode to Jon Hamm from Details magazine: Hamm swears at bikers. While wearing madras shorts and a baseball cap. Because they impede him from going 140 in his borrowed fancy car, a silver Mercedes that is not yet available for purchase by the public [...]
Tags: feminism, masculinity, Television
August 31, 2010
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Nathan Rabin Fails at Modeling and as a Human Being.
By aliciaaho in Gentlemen, Ladies, Sartoria, SocietyIt may seem like a clever move to self-deprecatingly refer to your own article as a “lousy blog post”, but it doesn’t mean the phrase does not ring true. If there is one set of ads I would purge from all the internets given the chance (and the POWER), it is the marketing campaign spat [...]
August 20, 2010
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Coverings: Best and Worst
By aliciaaho in The Arts, WritingIntroduction: I read books, and as a consequence I look at a lot of them. I look at more books than I read, in fact! Sometimes looking at books makes me want to say things about what I see. So there will be an ongoing series on this blog to talk about book cover design. [...]
August 14, 2010
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A Bechdel Test for Historical Romance
By aliciaaho in Ladies, Romance, Society, WritingLately I’ve been thinking a lot about the Bechdel test and what it reveals about the film industry. And there’s been at least one post I could find on a Bechdel standard for video games as well, which is interesting, even though I could dispute a whole bunch of points in the post (such as: [...]