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2010 Pop Culture Conference Rundown

4 days, hundreds of professors, PhD/Grad/Undergraduate students and very short food breaks = the Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Association’s annual conference.

Ian Klein joined me in Albuquerque for another year of frying our brains with academic discourse on popular culture. We heard about 50 papers and drank a lot of smoothies. It was indescribably delightful.
Here’s [...]

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Talking Twilight, or am I…?

Powerpoint sneak peaks from my presentation for this year’s Southwest/Texas American & Pop Culture Association’s conference. Best week ever kicking off next Tuesday!

Oh the power of correlation

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One Meal to Feed Them All, One Meal to Find Them, One Meal to Bring Them All Where Watching Movies Binds Them

For the second year in a row, I spent the first day of the year going “There and Back Again” with friends, watching all three Lord of the Rings films. Last year we watched the theatrical cut of Fellowship and Return of the King, with the extended Two Towers in the middle (in my opinion, [...]

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Adolescent Heroines and the Unexpected Epiphanies They Bring

Last Friday, six pages into Suzanne Collins Hunger Games, I had a revelation: I spent my entire adolescence reading about adults. I didn’t read The Chronicles of Narnia until my junior year of college. I read Little Women soon after. Madeline L’Engle’s Time Quartet was a college graduation gift I gave myself. A week [...]

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The “Roller-mance of the Library” Scarf for:

Name: Erin M. Blakemore
Location: Boulder, CO

Occupation: Writer and Director/Marketing/Social Media Consultant at the company I co-founded and co-own, VOCO Creative

A significant difference between California and Colorado: In California, I cry and curl up under massive blankets when the temperature hits 55. In Colorado, I laugh and go bare-legged. Also, rockabilly is [...]

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It’s Official (Tentatively)

The first version of the schedule for the 2010 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association Conference is up.

They spelled my name wrong…
oh Twilight…

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A Peak Into My Process

By the fourth Twilight Saga book, my annotations had evolved to the level of audience-interaction. Seen here- musical notes accompanying the words “Projective Identification” — so you can sing it as you read it.

Singing about projective identification:
Coping mechanism?
yes sir.

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December is A List-Lover’s Favorite Time of Year

While I’m currently chained to my desk working on my last paper of 2009, due Monday dec 21st, i figured I’d encourage myself my posting my annual list of paper titles a little early, as proof to myself that I have indeed, on numerous occasions, actually completed the paper-writing process.

Seems like I wrote fewer papers [...]

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Dialogical Film Club Run Down

I wanted to give each Dialogical Film Club gathering its own post, but as they stretch back to June, there’s just no way I can do honor to each individual film or the dialogue we had throughout it. So here’s an insufficient run down.
June: He’s Just Not that Into You
Chosen Because: We were [...]

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8 Tiny Movie Reviews

A friend just emailed me asking what I’d been watching recently that I might recomend to her. Fortunatley I have a word doc of every movie I’ve watched this year so far, so it was easy to think back on some recent favorites. I ended up writing little descriptions, so I figured I’d go ahead, [...]

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