drupagliassotti @ October 19, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Boys’ Love Manga co-editor Mark McHarry and contributor Hope Donovan gave a talk about the global yaoi phenomenon on KUCI’s Subversities radio show this last Monday, Oct. 18. Listen to an MP3 of the show on the Subversities blog! We would like to get together with other BL scholars, fans, and interested parties at Yaoi-Con [...]
drupagliassotti @ May 21, 2010 # 2 Comments
Day 3 (Friday): (New photos added here.) On the way out of the train station to the Edo-Tokyo Museum we spotted several sumo wrestlers in their topknots and bright yukata heading off to a sumo championship; they were the beginning-level wrestlers, as the higher-ranking wrestlers compete later in the day. I love the fact that [...]
drupagliassotti @ April 19, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Last Friday the New York Times published “Out of the Closet and Up, Up and Away” about Skin Tight USA at the Stonewall Inn in West Village. The Skin Tight party — in which the costumes range from the familiar (like Spider-Man) to ones that only a comics geek would recognize (like the 1993 version [...]
drupagliassotti @ January 27, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Mark McLelland, an Australian professor whose name is well-known to boys’ love scholars and fans, has written a guest article about the new Australian internet-filter law at fandom researcher Henry Jenkin’s blog, Confessions of an Aca/Fan. Check out McLelland’s article “Will New Law Block Many Slash, Anima, Manga Sites in Australia?” for a criticism of [...]
drupagliassotti @ January 4, 2010 # 4 Comments
My chapter in our upcoming boys’ love anthology compares heterosexual to male/male romances, and as I’ve written here before, I’ve been thinking about turning my research attentions away from yaoi and toward the new genre of original, English-language, female-authored male/male romance novels. Lo, yesterday a friend sent me this link to an article in the [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 25, 2009 # 2 Comments
Multiple recent surveys suggest that about 60 percent of young Japanese men — in their 20s and early 30s — identify themselves as herbivores. Their Sex and the City is a television show called Otomen, or Girly Guys. The lead character is a martial arts expert, the manliest guy in the whole school. But his [...]
drupagliassotti @ November 15, 2009 # 2 Comments
Wicked Gentlemen Ginn Hale 2007, Blind Eye Books Wicked Gentlemen is a dark and lush gaslamp fantasy set in the Victorianesque city of Crowncross, where the Covenant of Redemption brought Ashmedai, Sariel, and Satanel up from hell to experience baptism and the Great Conversion. Now the demonic offspring of hell’s great princes, the Prodigals, dwell [...]
drupagliassotti @ October 26, 2009 # No Comment Yet
This seems to be my month to do new things. I didn’t plan it that way, but that’s how it’s turned out. (1) I got rid of a bunch of old furniture, tableware, and artwork that no longer felt like a good fit. Some of it has been replaced with new stuff; some, not. (2) [...]
drupagliassotti @ July 6, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Thanks to Jaime for sending this one to me! Yes, I believe I am the only professor in this university to have a signed photo of Spike pinned to my office corkboard, so my eyes can wander to it from my laptop whenever I pause…. From io9: “Convinced that the idea of Buffy’s vamp beaus, [...]
drupagliassotti @ May 19, 2009 # 5 Comments
Today my friend Jo called my attention to the new Sherlock Holmes trailer, in which Robert Downey Jr. plays Holmes and Jude Law plays Watson. We swiftly began discussing the slashability quotient of those two actors, which is rather higher than that of Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce, even if Rathbone & Bruce are the [...]