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• Overthinking It
Analysis/deconstruction of popcultural objects. Recommended posts: The Real (Symbolic, and Imaginary) Ghostbusters (which analyzes the film in terms of Lacan’s notions of the Real), Bon Jovi: Livin’ on a Prayer and Music Theory, and I Will Always Have Been Back: Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Schwarzenegger.
• The Vigilant Citizen
The problem with conspiracy [...]

This should have gone in yesterday’s post.  I totally forgot that Freddie Mercury channels Nijinsky’s Faune in the video for “I Want to Break Free.”  The video was banned for a long time by MTV… I only recall seeing it once or twice as a kid (but thought it was awesome, even though I hadn’t [...]