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Patty has a cold. :(

Also, Buffy and Angel? Not here yet.

Finished my WIAD story.

Can we talk about Lady Gaga's new video? Because I could. All day. Not only is it a response to a certain era of Madonna, but it also goes to a lot of strange, strange uncomfortable places, the fascist references in its physical language being close to the top of the list. It's incredibly cool, smart stuff. There needs to be a Gaga Studies Journal, that's all I'm saying.

From all of my friendslist to all of yours: liljacks_corner is a community that has been set up for fan creators to make G-rated stuff for an eight-year-old boy named Jack who has just lost his legs; one of the only things that cheers him up right now is Doctor Who. He's only seen the first two seasons of the New series. What's being requested is a story about a little boy, much like the one it's for, going on an adventure with the Doctor and Rose. Details at the community.

Ready to start hollering? Daring to discuss women in science.

The Century Athletic Club.

New York now has an AllStaints Spitalfields.

Does anyone know more about this: is Judy Shepard's book homophobic? Accusations vague, scenario murky. Bwah? Anyone read it?

Didn't know this: Stephanie Flores, the Peruvian woman van der Sloot has reportedly confessed to killing, was a lesbian.

Comments

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I think dismissing Gaga as trash culture is failing to take culture seriously. Because she's not just a throw away pop star. She really is saying new and interesting things. They're things that call back to other pop stars that have changed our landscape, but they're also transformative and big. She definitely takes her work seriously. It's not something she's packaging to get rich off of. Everything she makes is put back into the shows, which she's pretty open about.

Listen, I grew up the daughter of Hippie parents. I still don't wear shoes mostly or shave anything. I didn't have a television or microwave until extremely recently (think maybe two years?). I don't know who anyone in the pop scene is. But I also get that it's not OK to dismiss things as being trash culture. What's important to people is important. Being 'above' it in some way doesn't make me more sophisticated and media savvy. It makes me ignorant. It means I'm missing something important that's resonating with other people. You don't have to find it interesting, but acting like you're so much better than people who *do* find it interesting is boring and gauche.

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I never said anybody shouldn't take Trash culture seriously. And just as you're entitled to say Lady Gaga is interesting, transformative and new I'm entitled to say that it's cliched, done-before and the most interesting thing about her work is that it is spectacularly vapid.