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ELVIS
in still relevant things written in 2011 for a website that is now defunct… Few stories capture the glory and darkness of the “American Dream” so eloquently as that of Elvis Aron Presley. Nothing about...
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and the part of jacqueline kennedy onassis will be played by kim kardashian...
well, well. so it’s one of those mornings where i went to bed thinking i’d write about one thing and woke up to discover i needed to write about something else. (via @kimkardashian) because last night...
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a change is gonna come… we hope… maybe? (emotions via britney)
ok, ya’ll, let’s do this. and to do this we (obviously) need my emotionally incontinent face twin, ms britney. a lot has happened since we last spoke. for example, the new york times published this...
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harry will marry: stray thoughts
and LO! when you say for years and years that someone HAS TO MARRY, eventually they will and you will be right. (via @KensingtonRoyal) so harry will marry. as was probably likely all along as royals...
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biography has sex problems: edward klein and the c. david heymann dilemma
if we’re having a reckoning, hey, let’s look at biography. this is edward klein: (via twitter) we need to talk about him. edward klein is a biographer. perhaps you know his books: a cheerful lot....
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the pathos of kennedy dolls on etsy, 2.1 (emotions via britney)
HEY-O. you remember our old friends, butofcourse (via) and you know i’ve written about this AT LENGTH. because i find these things terribly poignant. and i think they speak to the human condition. who...
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FACT TIME WITH OLINE: that jackie episode of “the crown”
fine. we will do this. (Jacqueline Kennedy on her way to the State Dinner with Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II) FACT TIME WITH OLINE!!! beware: SPOILERS ABOUND. HOLY BAUBLES, BRO. my father had...
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on presidential portraits
the thing about presidential portraits is that they usually aren’t all that exciting. partly [SWEEPING GENERALIZATION] possibly perhaps because there haven’t really been presidents who were...
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jackie, janet and lee: “women who existed only to captivate the world’s...
today, class, a close reading of the DM’s article of 16 february 2018, entitled: “Sisters who competed to snare the world’s richest men: Schooled by their mother to seek out power, a new book reveals...
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and lo! the daily mail has discovered gaslighting
GRAB ME MY SMELLING SALTS. an extraordinary day has come. (via the daily mail) couple of pedantic things first… just to bring in a little historical context, the daily mail has discovered the...
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the 90s
NINETEEN NINETY-THREE YO pic.twitter.com/lFp9soY2Lu — oh!-'lighn (@oline_eaton) March 16, 2018 sometimes i think 'ah, the 90s weren't so bad. why am i always writing about how news stories from the...
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the pathos of elvis rings (emotions via britney)
oh hello. i know, i know. long time no words. forgive me. in a life of approximately 9,000,000,000 projects (give or take a few), it is sometimes hard to remain a word factory in all available venues....
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there was that one time
on the occasion of my 33rd birthday, an older man i considered a professional mentor sent me a facebook message asking if i wanted children and whether i might help him continue his line. i was in...
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a brief analysis of the daily mail’s meghan markle “REVELATIONS”
surely, SURELY we are deep enough in our daily mail master class to recognize that the man behind the curtain has no clothes, right? but yeah, anyhoo, here we are at exhibit ZZZ… (via the daily mail)...
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oh, melania: the jacket (emotions via britney)
true story: this is all my fault. i proposed a series of conference papers on melania’s jacket and so OF COURSE now there is story on melania’s jacket every single effing day. i maybe fetishize the...
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“they competed over EVERYTHING – clothes, jewels, money, husbands… even lovers”
and, lo, we meet again. (via the daily mail) holy buckets, that headline! sidenote: i’m currently mired in essay grading, and there, in the middle of it all, whom did i see? you guessed it, mon frere,...
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i do not have time for this
apologies for the lack of gifs. i will be brief, because it is the end of semester and i have papers to grade. rhetoric papers. papers on argument. that is perhaps why i am so incensed by this op-ed....
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dear new england historical society: no, a white woman was not the first...
i am not here to play. there will be no gifs. my last post was about first ladies and whiteness, and lo! we meet at that potuck again. (via the new england historical society) let me begin by saying,...
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“that one” vs. all those classy, stylish, correct (white) first ladies of...
oh, hello, we back. 2019 is already . in updates on this mess, i wrote the new england historical society a very proper, emotionally detached, peer reviewed email taking research-based issue with their...
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