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    <title>Queer Pop Culture</title>
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    <description>Culture high and low: books, music, movies, sometimes those with gay or queer themes</description>
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      <title>The Best Robert Crumb Interviews</title>
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      <description>Definitive Robert Crumb interview collection. A must for anyone interested in Crumb or underground comics </description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[ The Comics Journal Library: R. Crumb Fantagraphics puffery says: Collecting four long out-of-print interviews from the Utne Independent Press Award-winning Comics Journal&#8217;s archive in a oversized, art-book format &#8230; These are the finest, longest, and most comprehensive interviews ever...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>H.L. Mencken &amp; my weblogs</title>
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      <description>How reading H.L. Mencken&apos;s Americana collections influence my keeping weblogs</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[After a fashion it was H.L. Mencken who inspired me to begin keeping a weblog. Back in the old American Mercury he ran snippets from American newspapers, mostly from small towns that were exemplary in capturing the naivet&eacute;, ignorance and...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Sloppy notes on intentional, manufactured camp</title>
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      <description>I don&apos;t like art school camp like Nick Zed or intentional pop culture camp like MST3K</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Good thing I don&#8217;t have a copy of Against Interpretation at hand. As much as I loved Sontag&#8217;s essay on camp I could easily make this all too turgid. Been so long since I read it (I was maybe 17)...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Crime, Mystery and Detective Fiction in English</title>
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      <description>Reference site focusing on crime and mystery fiction including TV and film, criticism, history, bibliography</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[An on-line "webliography" focusing on crime and mystery fiction, Canadian in general but they seem to cover everything. Searchable database of everything from detective movies and TV shows to academic dissertations. This website is part of a comprehensive project underway...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Online literary encyclopedia</title>
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      <description>Literary reference webstite, scholarly encyclopedia of literature and criticism</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I have a healthy stock of literary reference books but they aren&#8217;t always at hand or complete. The Literary Encyclopedia is an authoritative, up-to-date reference work written by named scholars most of whom are current university teachers. Its entries represent...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2004-03-10T08:20:14-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Die Frau Ohne Schatten: not anti-abortion</title>
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      <description>Politically correct edit of opera review confuses pro-life with anti-abortion</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Being &#8216;politically correct&#8217; can be as sensitive to conservatives as liberals. Either way it can easily abuse the language and expose painful literal mindedness. A Los Angeles Times music critic who wrote that a Richard Strauss opera was &#8220;pro-life&#8221; &#8212;...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Electronic texts for academic use</title>
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      <description>Etext collection aimed and scholars and academics</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve read some pop trash online. But I&#8217;ve avoided more substantial works. I don&#8217;t like reading continuously on the computer screen. I&#8217;ve found that I&#8217;m more likely to read carelessly to jump around more. While I can and have printed...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Postmodernist essay generator</title>
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      <description>Generate postmodern texts and essays via online software</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[ The essay you have just seen is completely meaningless and was randomly generated by the Postmodernism Generator.I&#8217;m not crazy enough to actually copy one of the essays. But you get the idea. Sort of a Sokal Hoax Machine. More...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Flying saucer pin-up</title>
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      <description>Pretty pin-up girl on a flying saucer dish</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Heterosexual persons are sometimes thought to be good at certain arts and crafts. From The Pin-up FilesAlready posted this elsewhere but it amuses me too much to not spread about....]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2003-12-11T15:39:51-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Pseudoscience fiction?</title>
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      <description>Science fiction that focuses on conspiracy theories, bogus research, wishful thinking  like the X-Files</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[There's new age fiction, typically novels where people go on spiritual quests and find enlightenment by meeting some shaman (shades of Carlos Castaneda who ended his days claiming his magic sperm went straight to women's brains - isn't a hellish...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2003-11-29T17:09:06-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Sensitive souls who need a kick in the ass</title>
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      <description>Young self-pitying nitwits who read Ayn Rand, Jack Kerouac, Herman Hess instead of something tonic like H.L. Mencken</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Observation as a bookseller. Many of the same kids who look to Hesse, Rand and Kerouac for the meaning of life buy Rimbaud or Flowers of Evil because they hope to find a mirror for their own murky youthful angst,...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Culture Low and High</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2003-11-24T16:03:06-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Pseudodictionary</title>
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      <description>Pseudodictionary coin, define words that should be in the dictionary, argot, jargon, slang</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[You never know what odd, amusing websites will appear: hello, and welcome to pseudodictionary, the place where words you&#8217;ve made up can become part of an actual online dictionary! slang, webspeak, colloquialisms&#8230;you name it, if you know a word that...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2003-11-20T13:58:25-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Death of the middlebrow</title>
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      <description>End of American middlebrow culture</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[ Yet there was a time, not so long ago, when such reading lists were not only not &#8220;questionable,&#8221; they were fundamental; indeed, they were inescapable elements of middlebrow culture. Middlebrowism, which dominated mid-century culture in the Anglo-American world, can...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2003-10-20T06:50:15-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Michel Foucault action figure</title>
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      <description>Ready for postmodernist, poststructralist warfare, cultural battles is the Michel Foucalt action figure.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A must for the beloved postmodernists on your Christmas list: Keenly aware of the fluidity of social identities, this 6.5" Michel Foucault waves his baton in poststructuralist style at all challenges. Shrouded in a special removeable French cloak and with...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2003-10-14T16:28:44-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Diversions on Live Journal</title>
      <link>https://queerpopculture.com/archives/culture_low_and_high/diversions_on_live_journa.php</link>
      <description>Diversions&apos; weblog RSS feed on Live Journal.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[This weblog can be read on Live Journal by adding the RSS feed to your Live Journal friends list: LJ RSS Feed...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Culture Low and High</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2003-09-12T06:43:22-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>For Us, the Living, lost Robert Heinlein</title>
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      <description>Robert Heinlein&apos;s For Us, the Living</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Locus reports: For Us, the Living, the first novel Robert A. Heinlein wrote, has been sold to Scribner&#8217;s and Pocket Books. All copies of the novel, which is believed to have been written between late 1938 and April 1939, were...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2003-09-02T10:36:23-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Why weblog?</title>
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      <description>Why I have a personal weblog.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Normally I keep my meta-weblogging entries in their own safe ghetto in Computer Toaster. Possibly annoying people who come here for completely different reasons I’m linking to my weblog anniversary post in Pansexual Sodomite, my personal weblog. Why I have...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2003-08-30T18:23:52-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Heap big voodoo for people who think they want to be cultured</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I read this a month or two ago when it came out. Found myself rereading when it showed up on Arts & Letters Daily this morning. A very edifying and entertaining spectacle of a best selling writer whose success probably...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2002-09-14T07:24:54-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Not the next best thing</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Charles and I rented Next Best Thing. I’d never seen Madonna in a movie before. Now I know why she’s rarely had success as an actress. She can’t act. Kind of a surprise that a woman who has been so...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2002-09-04T18:16:15-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Torch Songs of the Mind</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[ . . . every gay man's dream, every straight man's nightmare . . . Joan Crawford is Turner Classic Movies Star of the Month and that line was in a promo spot. That gay men identify with torch singers...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2002-08-21T16:56:54-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Supply your own laugh track</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I guess I was part of the first generation to be described as "raised by television." I don't think the grandparents I spent much of my earliest years ever owned ones. In my few flashes from back then I'm always...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>They Used to Call this Copiousness but it is just Verbose</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I feel marginally accomplished this evening. I spent part of the day rearranging the front room. It could be called my room but that would be tacky since Charles doesn't have 'his room.' But the outbuilding is pretty much under...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Proof that I&apos;m damned (talking about TV shows)</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Almost apocalyptic aren't they. (It isn't a question.) Even though he's hated the last couple of seasons Charles has retained his fidelity to the X-Files. I've watched the show with him because he wanted me to. I dismissed the program...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>No Nannies Please</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I've been spending lots of time on Amazon.com ordering unglamorous but useful things like a USB Hub. A couple of years ago when I ordered The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World I laughed when I was told that other...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Funny Funnybooks</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I'm surprised how often I see references to comic books in journals that I read and websites that I visit. You'd think they were still popular. I rarely mention the comics side of my business. But I thought I'd direct...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Her eyes were as cold as diamonds in anarctica. Her smile as tight as a traffic cop&apos;s.</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I've rarely been able to read many mystery novels. There've been a few exceptions, notably Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe series which seems to me more social comedy than detection. And being able to sit at home and let an Archie...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Relax ... It&apos;s Just Sex</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Like most of the gay-themed movies Charles and I have been watching Relax ... It's Just Sex has a scattering of funny lines. But when the movie ends you don't regret the time spent but you doubt there'll be much...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>The Object of My Affection</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[In The Object of My Affection a straight woman and a gay guy become platonic lovers and agree to raise the child she's about to bear. The gay guy eventually finds a boyfriend, the girl gets jealous but since this...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Moon River</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The nicest thing about selling used books and CDs is things you don't know you'd like to have present themselves and come home with you. Even if they aren't what you hoped there easier to get rid of than an...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2002-04-14T17:44:33-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Mary Don&apos;t You Weep</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Saturday I took a stack of Sarah Vaughan live concerts to play at work. Jazz singers are often at their best in live performances. They don't have to worry about producers commercial concerns. I hadn't listened to her in months....]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Get Real</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Charles and I watched Get Real back to back with Boyfriends. Another English 'dramatic comedy.' Pretty, closeted Steven is our star. In English fashion his trysts are largely conducted in the public loo. Through the amazing luck available only to...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Boyfriends</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Boyfriends Three pairs of English gay guys spend a weekend in the countryside. The main couple (Paul and Ben), after having spent five years together, decide to split up. The second have been dating for five months. The sterotypically sensitive...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Torch Song Trilogy</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Saw the movie version of Harvey Fierstein's Torch <em>Song Trilogy</em>.]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Queer As Folk</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[It hit me just recently that I never lusted after boys in the locker-room. Not that I was in there much; rarely could a coach force nerdy, phlegmatic me to participate. I had lots of headaches. Really ones, but I'm sure they were mostly psychosomatic. In the Ninth grade I flatly refused to take P.E. even though the lack of the class meant I couldn't get a high school diploma. Not giving a damn where anything was I did the same with Geography. Luckily I didn't have to graduate so I never found myself facing a Summer of remedial exertion and place names.]]></content:encoded>
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