Open Thread for March 23, 2012
Let’s keep the Hunger Games spoilers to a minimum, but otherwise the only rule is not to eat your fellow tributes when you kill them.
Specialists In Violence on Overthinking It
Episode 43: Post-Modern Royalty
Sheely and Wrather discuss the Modern Royalty episode of Gossip Girl and discover that they really like the listeners.
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Sue Giveth, and Sue Taketh Away: Glee and Matriarchy
The radical subversion of gender roles at the heart of Glee.
Justice is Blonde: Theories of Crime and Punishment in Gossip Girl
The philosophical bases of punishment and the relationship between the police power of the state and economic elites in Gossip Girl.
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Kanye West has never seen RoboCop
I am fairly certain that Kanye West has never ever seen any of the three RoboCop movies, even though one of the songs on the album is named after the film franchise’s titular character.
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The Musical Talmud: Neon Knights
[The “Musical Talmud” is our ongoing series that finds the true meaning behind pop music lyrics. See also Part 1, “Don’t Stop Believing,” Part 2, “The KKK Took My Baby Away,” Part 3, “I Want It That Way,” Part 4, … Continued
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