Monday various

  • This is an interesting way of fighting to overturn Prop 8. I’m seriously tempted to donate. [via]
  • Although, male or female, I do think the person one marries should at least be required to exist. [via]
  • Speaking of interesting and odd ideas: Dance Your PhD. Seriously, that’s just weird. If anybody out there is working on a doctorate in interpretive dance, you could so clean up at this thing! [via]
  • I’d almost be okay with Fox consigning Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse to the graveyard of Friday night if they didn’t also probably expect it to get great ratings there. Dump it on Friday, sure, but then let it thrive there. At this point, though, I really worry about the show’s chances — not so much because of Fox, but because of the hype and all the online stories trying to depict it as a doomed failure before it even airs. Still, Fox isn’t helping any.
  • Mark Evanier makes a really good point about the futility of trying to predict the next presidential election before the winner of this one’s even sworn in: “Could someone point me to some of the predictions made just after Election Day in 2004 that said that in four years, this nation just might elect a black guy and Joe Biden in a landslide?”
  • Did you know the entire run of Peanuts is now online? Well, now you do. [via]

2 thoughts on “Monday various”

  1. Fortunately, MFA programs tend to be terminal degrees. The field of performance studies is growing at the moment, though, so I suppose it’s possible to do PhD in interpretive dance. I’m guessing that it’s not a viva voce defense, though…viva corpus, maybe?

  2. “Could someone point me to some of the predictions made just after Election Day in 2004 that said that in four years, this nation just might elect a black guy and Joe Biden in a landslide?”

    Actually, something I just read made me think about Obama’s speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, after which people were putting his name forward as a possible presidential candidate in 2008. So is it possible that fame and buzz generated in one election can lead to that person being president in four years? I guess so.

    God help us, though, if Palin does decide to run in 2012…

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