Category Archives: Lessons in “WTF? This Shit Worked?”

Picking apart vintage advertisements in order to find some semblance of how these antiquated notions of prescribed gender roles are potentially perpetuated.

February 8, 2010

Lessons in “WTF? This shit worked?” Round two: Lolita on parade.

Someday, I’ll get to teach Visual Rhetoric again for real-real, and not just for play-play. Until then, I’ll just placate myself with dissecting the gems of yesteryear. Last time it was all about Van Heusen. This time, we’ll go with … Continue reading →

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November 6, 2009

Lessons in “WTF? This Shit Worked?”: Round One

I recently heard, from one of my former cohorts in crime at the University of Oregon’s Journalism School, that the prerequisite class-du-jour, J101 – Information Gathering (InfoHell to those of us who survived) has been eliminated from the once-rigorous curriculum. (It was the … Continue reading →

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July 20, 2009

Where 1980s teen-girl fashion returns to die…

Spawned from the depths of a Sassy magazine’s glossy pages or possibly a transient YM, cradled, like Mesopotamia, between the Confessions section (like, omigawd, gag me with a spoon, Mark totally tried to kiss me when he still had half of his … Continue reading →

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