http://blogs.tamu.edu/shemote Just another blogs @ TAMU weblog Sat, 03 May 2008 01:32:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Not sure if anyone still reads this, but I came across an article today that ties a lot of stuff together. Apparently Kent State (home to the infamous shootings in 1970) is studying the language of telecommunication (text messages, IMs, blogs, Facebook, etc.) as a form separate from English. Reminds ... http://blogs.tamu.edu/shemote/2008/05/02/omg-a-modern-written-language/ As Brandon noted a while back in a post on the topic, Bats are dying in large quantities. First the Bees, now the Bats. What's a Vampire to do? Now the subject has hit the big time, earning the following article in today's New York Times. March ... http://blogs.tamu.edu/shemote/2008/03/24/garlic-crosses-and-stakes-oh-my/ I've admitted on this site that I was wrong about HRC. I read the cultural unconscious correctly, picking up the symptoms of an emergent psychosis desperately in need of a little down time with the Maternal/Imaginary; I read the candidates themselves incorrectly by falling into the oldest form of lazy-think ... http://blogs.tamu.edu/shemote/2008/03/02/mrs-dad-or-how-hillary-learned-to-love-the-bomb/ If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: the paternal, symbolic narrative of his-tory is told for the eye; the maternal, imaginary narrative of her-story is told for the ear. As such, it should come as no surprise that potentially the first woman president in the ... http://blogs.tamu.edu/shemote/2008/02/29/hearing-voices/ You know for a long time I felt that the cultural unconscious was working itself to put the maternal at the locus of authority in this country, given the obsolescence of the paternal narratives brought on by the verifiability of paternity through paternity tests. Given that the for the first ... http://blogs.tamu.edu/shemote/2008/02/27/the-audacity-of-the-imaginary/ One need only look briefly at any number of cultural traditions to know that when there's a major technological transition in a given historical moment, then the monstrous mother comes out of hiding. I'm thinking here of Medea (greek alphabet) or Lady Macbeth (printing press) to name only ... http://blogs.tamu.edu/shemote/2008/02/25/the-return-of-the-monstrous-mother/ So why will Barack get elected at this complex moment in the cultural unconscious? One reason could well be that the font he uses on all of his campaign signs is Gotham. Isn't that the name of the city where our Vampiric hero, Batman, lives? Oh yes, ... http://blogs.tamu.edu/shemote/2008/02/25/obamarama-and-batman/ You know for years I've been wondering why Dragons play such a big role in all of these myths of parthenogenesis, paternity, and literacy. Well, I think I just figured it out, thanks to an article that appeared today in the NYT. It's all there in the first ... http://blogs.tamu.edu/shemote/2008/02/24/dragons-and-madonnas-and-babies-oh-my/ Ok, so there's this movie called the American Astronaut, and it's a science fiction musical that is basically parenting and printing...in space. If I had known about this film sooner, I would have definitely done my final project on it. This is probably the best film I've ever seen in ... http://blogs.tamu.edu/shemote/2008/02/18/parenting-and-printingthe-sci-fi-musical/ As we all know, the bee population is mysteriously dying in California, with severe agricultural reproductions.  Well now, apparently, the same thing is happening to bats in New England, with at least 8,000 dying off last winter and up to 200,000 shuffling off this year.  The dead ... http://blogs.tamu.edu/shemote/2008/02/17/the-ring-virus-not-just-for-kids-any-more/