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• In Media Res
  Re: Yours or Ours? The L Word’s OurChart, Internet Social Networking, and Identity

  This reminds me of the

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  Hollis Griffin Denison University

  Friday, May 4, 2007 — 2:29 am

  This reminds me of the events that unfolded over the telephone chatlines and internet chatrooms catering to gay men living in Ottawa a while back. Men were meeting companions online and over the phone, setting up dates to meet in-person offline, and then ...
• In Media Res
  Re: “I don’t think anyone has an obligation to do anything”: The pop politics of coming out

  On some level, I love that

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  Hollis Griffin Denison University

  Saturday, April 26, 2008 — 7:58 pm

  On some level, I love that Mika refuses to be impelled to come out. Within a year, he'd be grinning like an idiot on float at every parade pride from Manchester in the UK to Manchester, NH. On another, it infuses this notion of "choice" int ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Queer Friendly

  For me, this show has gone

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  Hollis Griffin Denison University

  Tuesday, December 12, 2006 — 8:29 am

  For me, this show has gone "south" in a hurry; I was a big fan up through the middle of this season or so. I think my waning faith and interest in it is directly related to this issue that Avi brings up. "N/T" marketing has foregrounde ...
• In Media Res
  Re: “Where Does a Girl Have to Go to Find a Pool Table: Gender Performance, Leisure, and The L Word in Second Life”

  So, not being much of a

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  Hollis Griffin Denison University

  Tuesday, April 22, 2008 — 5:18 pm

  So, not being much of a dancer in FirstLife, I can’t imagine that I’d be too great a companion in SecondLife. That conventional femininity and upper middle class homosexuality, would be the prereqs for self-presentation in “The L Word’s” SecondLife “plane ...
• In Media Res
  Re: “Sincerity” as Quality TV? Sport, Community, and the Post-Network Era

  Affect's allegedy connection

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  Hollis Griffin Denison University

  Friday, May 4, 2007 — 2:16 am

  Affect's allegedy connection to geography is vexing. While this is a tendency of rhetoric from both ends of the political spectrum, I hate how complicit so many avowed Lefties are in this schema. We do tremendous rhetorical violence to the potentiali ...
• In Media Res
  Re: “Jumping Your Bones Was Extremely Atypical For Me”

  It's one of those

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  Hollis Griffin Denison University

  Monday, April 21, 2008 — 9:00 pm

  It's one of those peculiarities of post-network television that a gay television fan(atic) like myself knows the production specifics of this show, finds them compelling enough to WANT to watch it, yet finds his TiVo too full of other things to actua ...

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