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Category: Lady Gaga
Over at the League
I have a post up over at the Women’s League of Ale Drinkers today on Daniel Pink’s A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future. It’s a fascinating book on why people who can synthesize information across borders of various kinds, find the narrative hooks and figure out what people really want and…
My Students: Full of Awesome
Two grad students who are doing independent studies with me also made music videos to go with their projects. I don’t think I can link to Kira’s video on Facebook (a mash-up of Tipping the Velvet and the Brandi Carlile song “I Was Made for You”), but I can link to Caitlin’s video for Lady…
Punch Magazine predicts Lady Gaga… in 1929!
Yes, now it can be told! My tireless research has turned up a fascinating artifact from the past. Okay, when I say “tireless research,” I actually mean “something I stumbled across because I have weird reading habits.” Over Xmas break, I wrote a story set in Jazz Age London. I thought I should do a…
Punch Prognostication of Lady Gaga
Cited on page 147 of D. J. Taylor’s Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London’s Jazz Ageis mention of a Punch Magazinepiece from April 1929 called “The Dull Young People” which Taylor calls a “labored parody” of the sparkling folk. But the description made me laugh out loud: Here Punch’s correspondent is escorted by…
K. A. Laity 