A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

FINALLY, A PLACE FOR MY SCHOLARLY WORK ON THE SEMIOTICS OF "H.O.V.A.:" In case you've ever thought "Gosh, I enjoy this blog, but I wish it had more footnotes," have we got a journal for you. The Journal Of Popular Culture, edited by a professor at Michigan State, publishes six times a year. Recent articles include:

• Discourses of Sexual Morality in Sex in the City and Queer as Folk
• Do You Love Mother, Norman?: Peyton Place as the Genesis of Psycho
• Star-Light, Star-Bright, Star Damn Near White: Mixed Race Superstars
• He's Gotta Be Stong, and He's Gotta Be Fast, and He's Gotta Be Larger Than Life: Investigating the Engendered Superhero Body
• Tricksters and the Marketing of Breakfast Cereals
• Spears' Space: The Play of Innocence and Experience in the Bare Midriff Fashion
• From Quixote to Caractacus: Influence, Intertextuality, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
• The Third Reich in Alternate History: Aspects of a Genre-Specific Depictions of Nazism
• Hoods and the Woods: Rap Music as Environmental Literature

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In less serious publication news, The Weekly World News, home of Bat Boy and Ed Anger, is shutting down.