Like everyone in the world, I rely on the sharp eye and sharp tongue and the talent of black Americans to critique the whiteboy culture by interposing its own. That is a carefully composed and edited politically correct statement. …
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Old Babes
http://jeannette-smyth.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/07/old-babes.htmlThe latest issue of Cottage Living, a very strange ladies' magazine headquartered in Alabama somewhere, which hits a certain femme sweet spot in an aspirational kind of derriere-garde Tri-Delt way in which Utopia is, actually, one of those darlin' Disney housing tracts -- the architecture, as one scholar calls it, of reassurance -- has a feature this month on Julie Newmar. …
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Flying to Liberia
http://jeannette-smyth.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/06/flying-to-liber.htmlI remember the days of one narrative. It came down to my history teacher in high school. Or maybe it was geography. He also taught drivers' ed and coached something. He had a flat top, the mouth of a shark, and a slim waist under those polo shirts. …
