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“In 1921, early suffragettes often donned a bathing suit and ate pizza in large groups to annoy men…it was a custom at the time”
PIZZA AND BATHING SUITS
-naomi
who wants to have a pizza/bathing suit party?
omg
Help send @ElisaRockDoc to GDC!
Hello Lovelies!
So here is the deal, my girl @ElisaRockDoc is looking to get to PAX East and GDC to help with her research and I need YOUR help to get her there. So here is what I am going to do:
I have some of the coolest friends EVER. Seriously. I’m overwhelmed.
MAGFest 2013 is upon us!
New year, new start to my convention-hopping. First is MAGFest, the Music and Gaming Festival, for my second year in a row. Last year, I had the honor of being on a couple of panel for the Gaming Intellectuals section, and they were silly enough to invite me back!
Here’s my panel schedule this weekend. I’d love to see you there!
Thursday, Jan 3, 5:30 PM: Video Games in Academia, Panels Room 3
Saturday, Jan 5, 3 PM: Women in Gaming: The Growing Silent Majority, Panels Room 6
Saturday, Jan 5, 6 PM: Games and Representation, Panels Room 5
If you can’t make it over, don’t fret! I’m going to kickstart my youtube.com/elisarockdoc channel with videos each day of the con! Give that little ‘Subscribe’ button a workout, eh?
I already know 2013 is going to be a doozy. Full of new beginnings. Some painful. Some joyous. Some downright frightening.
Doors will open, and they’ll either make that satisfying TNG “woosh” sound as I sashay on through, or I’ll kick them down myself.
Here’s just one of them.
Here’s to many more!
When I think I finally got it under control
WHEN MY STUDENTS SAY THAT I GRADE TOO STRICTLY:
Breakdown—Go Ahead and Give it to Me.
So, in case you haven’t been watching me slowly unravel on two social media channels, I’m in the process of taking my doctoral exams. The process varies from institution to institution, and even department to department, but I’m sure the stress is about the same.
In my case, I have two areas of literature: gender & gaming, and gender & popular music. From each area’s literature, the committee gives me a set of three questions, from which I pick two to answer. At 10-15 pages a piece. Over the course of a week.
I submitted my first set with some fanfare, as it had been my first academic writing outing in about a year. I was happy just to complete the work and sound kind of smart (I hope) while doing it.
When someone wants me to be more critical of Judith Butler
I expect using this entire Tumblr’s worth of gifs on my doc exams this week, but this one hit home!
Attention SoFla Musicians: Someone Stole Our Gear!
Evan Lamb, guitar player extraordinaire and Miami’s favorite sound guy, got his van stolen last night with his entire guitar rig inside. Please be on the lookout and SHARE!
“STOLEN: My entire guitar rig…
Mesa Mark V 1-12” combo in an EWI pullover case,
36” white TrailerTrash pedalboard (Crybaby 95Q wah, Boss 500 Volume pedal, DoD Octoplus, Mini QTron, ZenDrive, Fulltone Plimsoul, Fulltone OCD, MXR EVH Flanger, Fulltone Supatrem, Boss TR2, MXR Carbon Copy, Boss DD5, Midi Switch, TC Polytu ne, Sennheiser G3 wireless),
‘97 Fender Roadhouse Strat (Shoreline Gold, Seymour Duncan Hotrails humbucker in the bridge),
‘08 American Standard Telecaster (Sunburst),
Ibanez RGA Prestige (green/grey flame top, stickers on it reading ‘BiG Tasty’ on the front and ‘2007’ on the back).
In addition to my guitar rig, a large chunk of my PA. Items of note:
2 Yorkville LS800P powered 18” subs,
Mackie SR1530,
16 channel EWI 150’ snake on a reel,
Sennheiser G2 wireless handheld with receiver
New, 13” MacBook Pro
Oh, and my fucking van… 2004 white Chevy Express 2500, license plate: 771 THS
Seriously, someone stole most of my possessions tonight, over $70,000 worth of equipment. Please share this.”
