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Stumpage Reports
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Monday, March 17, 2003 :::
Quiz Time
Back by popular demand (well, a couple people said they liked it). Are these real articles from the peer reviewed Journal of Popular Culture or complete bullshit I sat here and made up? Answers below.
1) From Minnesota Fat to Seoul Food: Spam in America and the Pacific Rim
2) The Female Eunuch in the Suburbs: Reflections on Adolescence, Autobiography, and History-writing
3) "But It Goes to Eleven": This Is Spinal Tap and The Revelation of St. John the Divine As Seen Through A Jungian Lens
4) The Monster Inside: 19th Century Racial Constructs in the 24th Century Mythos of Star Trek
5) Mandingo in Mayberry: White Power Hegemony and Miscegenation in The Andy Griffith Show
6) I Guess That�s Why They Call it the Blues: Elton John and Transgender Deconstruction
7) The Hilarious Rump: Our Fascination With the Arse in Early Comedic Film
8) �Guns. Lots of guns:� George Bush�s Foreign Policy and the Films of Keanu Reeves
9) Lady Madonna: The Vagina Dentata in the Music of Lennon and McCartney
10) Looking Through a Glass Onion: Rock and Roll as a Modern Manifestation of Carnival
Answers:
Real: 1, 2, 4, 7, 10
Bullshit: 3, 5, 6, 8, 9
Reading:
The Butchers Benevolent Association of New Orleans, Plff. in Err., v. The Crescent City Live-Stock Landing and Slaughter-House Company (1873) in Supreme Court Reporter, 16 Wallace 36.
Quote of the Day:
I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a handbarrow; a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man; his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat; his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails; and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. I remember him looking round the cove and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards:
"Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!'"
--- Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, 1883.
::: posted by tom at 9:05 PM
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