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Pinko Fairies

Pinko Fairies

Wow. I’m teaching a senior seminar this semester on irony—on, especially, how tricky and unreliable irony becomes when it moves into the mass media in the second half of the twentieth century. Today, we talked about a very early episode of All in the Family, Norman Lear’s controversial 1970s sitcom that took on nearly every [...]

Credo

Credo

New blog: first post.  Hope y’all will like it. In brief: Some joyous occasional observations on contemporary culture.  Literature, music, the media.  Guiltless pleasures.  Pure pop for now people. More soon– Kevin Tweet This Post