Tuesday, October 21, 2008

What grad students talk about

When we aren't discoursing or dialoguing about theory and its applications to performance blah blah blah, here is what grad students talk about:
  1. What is your favorite apple? This was hotly debated in my Cultural Studies class, I wish I could say it wasn't about color, because it just oversimplifies red/yellow/green, not fully appreciating the fine distinctions between Gala, Macintosh and Granny Smith.
  2. The image of a hormone-pumped chicken with huge breasts is still funny, despite what it reveals about agribusiness. Even better - the idea of buffaloes being farmed that way. (Thanks Trader Joe for clearing up that the buffalo, like that used in its jerky, is NOT endangered.)
  3. Do blind people worry about fashion? If I was blind, would it be ok for me to be naked, since I wouldn't care what I looked like? This is what happens when you have a bunch of overanalytical people who are underfed or underrested and seeing trailers for a movie called Blindness.
Clearly we all need to get out more. I would also add we all need to drink more beer.

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