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  “‘Toilet paper is the new scroll.:P’"

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  Joshua Calhoun University of Wisconsin-Madison

  June 03, 2010

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  “‘Toilet paper is the new scroll.:P’" bookworm ecology flax form livelavalive paper reuse scat scroll textual instability toilet paper Curator's Note There’s an intriguing Bill and Ted quality to the way Mitchell and Kyle’s conversation bumps i ...
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  Re: The People's Republic of Paper: Rag Paper and Material Memory

   Timothy, I wouldn’t say that

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  Jonathan Senchyne Cornell University

  Tuesday, June 1, 2010 — 5:47 pm

  a similar tendency to draw attention to the possibilities of its material content. Likewise, I've ...
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  Re: Following the Tiger Trail: The Public Trial of Tiger Woods

  Tiger's Quiet Meow

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  Kimberly Alecia Singletary Northwestern University

  Monday, May 31, 2010 — 11:09 pm

   I’m coming to this a little bit late, I know, so forgive me for being late to party. What I found ...
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  Re: The People's Republic of Paper: Rag Paper and Material Memory

  Reborn vs Remade

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  Timothy Carmody University of Pennsylvania

  Monday, May 31, 2010 — 8:29 pm

  Thoreau and co, you might wonder about those stories, but it's a lost possibility; you're ...
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  The People's Republic of Paper: Rag Paper and Material Memory

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  Jonathan Senchyne Cornell University

  May 31, 2010

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  isn't possible in this space, but I can say the project demonstrates that even in this "paperless ...
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  Following the Tiger Trail: The Public Trial of Tiger Woods

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  Brandeise Monk-Payton Brown University

  May 19, 2010

  2 comments

  Following the Tiger Trail: The Public Trial of Tiger Woods Tiger Woods tabloid scandal Nike celebrity Curator's Note Over the past few months, the Tiger Woods sex scandal has reached new heights of media frenzy in the amount of public scrutiny surrou ...
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  The Inadequately Violent State?

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  Samir Dayal Bentley University

  May 17, 2010

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  side of life.  In  the case of this ordinary man-turned-terrorist, stupidity is certainly a plea on the ... side of life but a plea enacted by a threat against it, against other ordinary citizens of India.  It ... character, possibly a conceit borrowed from Rain Man (Barry Levinson, 1988), and the "stupidity" of ...
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  "And I Talk Pretty Too": Race, Dialect and the Beauty Myth.

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  Carnelia Gipson Old Dominion University

  May 14, 2010

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  episode, Angelea, the bi-racial beauty from the wrong side of the tracks, finds herself at odds with the ...
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  Re: Women and Comedy: An Invisible Tradition

  Re: Women and Comedy

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  Carnelia Gipson Old Dominion University

  Wednesday, May 12, 2010 — 3:01 pm

  a side note, the website http://www.textsfromlastnight.com/  displays some interesting forms of female ...
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  Women and Comedy: An Invisible Tradition

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  Lydia Perovic writer

  May 12, 2010

  1 comment

  Women and Comedy: An Invisible Tradition women theatre television stand-up gender film comedy Curator's Note  Are women less capable of humour than men? The answer is not a simple one. The comparative lack of women in comedic traditions in theatre, s ...

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