WIKKI STIX: An Innocent Toy?

DON”T BE FOOLED. 

These Are WICCAN VOODOO DOLLS.

You think you innocently bend them into an amusing, harmless-looking stick figure.

A Lesbian in an alternative café down the block is contorted into writhing pain.

Or Camille Paglia is thrown to the ground in shock and agony, wherever she might be.

THESE PEOPLE ARE IN YOUR TOWN.

WHERE IS THIS TAKING PLACE? A Geography of Teen Identity

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image

Joan Didion (b. 1934), U.S. essayist. “In the Islands,” The White Album (1979).)

INTRODUCTION

The work of adolescent imagination is play, and the play of teens is work. (more…)

DANGER: GIANT CLAM. Do Not Allow the Baby to Levitate Onto the Strange Hot-Dog Thing, or the Giant Clam will Eat Them.

DISTURBING ATTACK ON FEMINISM: The Insidiousness of the Palin Circus

Friday, 05 September 2008. Heard on “Talk Of the Nation” on NPR.

A woman is interviewed about her perceptions of Governor Sarah Palin and her voting intentions. She describes how a media pundit has raised questions about Governor Palin’s suitability as prospective Vice President because of (more…)