(no subject)

Today is my last day of work at this job. Monday is my first day of work
at the new job.

(no subject)

(with a tip of the hat to fightingwords' lj tags)

In college, I took a class in "Popular Culture." It was taught by a
graduate student in the English department, a woman who happened to have
been a clerk at the comic shop that I patronized when I was a teenager.
She was also a Kirk/Spock slash writer. But all of that's another story.

She instructed me to always call it "popular culture" and never shorten it
to "pop culture," because the Big Professor On Campus hated the short
version. Hayted it. H-A-T-E. Despised it in a way that only pretentious
academics can.

I think she was half right.

I think the proper short form is not "pop culture," but "popular cult."

(no subject)

Kids,

Check your reading comprehension. Dan Savage was being sarcastic.

Garrison Kiellor was not.