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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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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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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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Family Tree

Bridget made this for the little one she’s carrying right now.
It was so beautiful, I had to share it.

Joyous Advent To You and Yours, Kj

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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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Rescinding and Revising My Notes From the Depths of Woman-Geared Christian Publishing

The Young Lady in Waiting: Developing the Heart of a Princess by Jackie Kendall
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
***see updated review below***

a) For my research, I purchased both “Young Lady in Waiting” and “Lady in Waiting” assuming this “young” version would be directed toward adolescent girls as opposed to adult or even young adult [...]

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Notes From My Forays Back Into The Depths Of Woman-Geared Christian Publishing

The Young Lady in Waiting: Developing the Heart of a Princess by Jackie Kendall
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
a) For my research, I purchased both “Young Lady in Waiting” and “Lady in Waiting” assuming this “young” version would be directed toward adolescent girls as opposed to adult or even young adult women. But [...]

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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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