In 19976, the R&B group Blackstreet recorded a song with Dr. Dre and Queen Pen that Wikipedia tells me ended the reign of the Macarena on the music charts. "No Diggity" hit the number one spot on several US Billboard charts including the Hot 100...
Author: Christa Blackmon
Media anthropologist American expat living in London and college radio DJ for Lawyers, Guns and Money.
The President of the United States has fired FBI Director James Comey. The FBI has been investigating the allegations of the Trump administration's.
A few weeks ago, I posted about Mass Effect: Andromeda and in the comments we.
In 1990, Chris Isaak recorded a music video with supermodel Helena Christensen where the two mostly rolled around shirtless on a beach in Hawaii. The video's director Herb Ritts was a successful black and white fashion photographer who had worked with stars like Madonna and...
In what I hope to make a regular trend for myself on LGM I present to you a.
Video games are here (they can be queer) and we need to get used to them making a cultural impact through interactive storytelling. I had played Sid Meier's Civilization.
Twitter compatriot and fellow foreign policy female Sarah Shoker was kind enough to join in to my discussion of civilian casualties from American airstrikes. Sarah is a doctoral candidate...
I'm going to take a little break from talking about human suffering in on screen to bring you a different way of encountering social norms through television. [caption id="attachment_90940" align="aligncenter".
A few days ago I wrote about the conspicuous absence of any news reports of the aftermath of the MOAB strike in Afghanistan. The point of my post was.
"To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric..." Theodor W. Adorno (1) An image is worth a thousand words, but a thousand words often create their own images. Poetry has long been...
"...a lovely, bloodless, corpseless war, just the sort the politicians love." David Hackworth (1) If images.