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j_l_r

  1. Is there anything to ultimately achieve in Diablo III? Is it all just randomly clicking monsters? So far it seems like super-simplified WoW.
  2. "[using] Facebook, you’re going to work for Mark Zuckerberg... better to watch television." RT @benwurgaft on FB, this: techcrunch.com/2012/05/20/sil…
  3. @notpiecebypiece you have captured exactly how I feel about Friday Night Lights!
  4. @notpiecebypiece ironic retweet without comment!
  5. @_mesk IKR? internalized fan-phobia! reminds me of my student's thesis chapter about fans policing own culture/class/gender boundaries.
  6. @thrace yeah it's both a priceless characterization of Tumblr + written by a 20-year-old who apparently doesn't understand the internet?!
  7. @melstanfill go easy on her since she's an undergrad -- I told my friend who teaches media studies at New School to stage an intervention :)
  8. found during a New School visit: "Fangirls, Stay Away From Tumblr" newschoolfreepress.com/2012/05/11/fan… (paging Bourdieu?) cc: @melstanfill @iheartfatapollo
  9. other recent pop culture loves: sitcom Don't Trust the B- in Apt. 23 (self-reflexivity!) & Angry Birds Space (gravity!)
  10. 2nded! + for >1 cup we have en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_co… MT @kfitz I bought myself an AeroPress, which completely rocks. Makes the best coffee ever.
  11. I'm super proud of my undergrad thesis student for her 100-page original critical ethnography of the callie_arizona LJ community!
  12. @beccatoria it's sooooooo cute that Nina the rat listens to music! so do our cats. they have favorite albums, too - opera worried @teh_jpeg
  13. @shinyalice "school of hard knocks" sounds challenging! I haven't been playing at all. I can't believe I'm missing children's week!
  14. my job talk prezi has evolved into an insane mashup of my book project with mutant fragments of all my other prezis prezi.com/hvoucnqscu-g/f…
  15. @benwurgaft drat, I am flying out on Sunday and cramming until then!