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Love / Shove post by Guest Star on March 9, 2009 - 1:38pm; tagged Buzz, interview transcript, Janet Miller, Jerilea Zempel, radical knitting, The Colbert Report.

Those of you who have already gotten your hands on a copy of the hot-off-the-presses "Buzz" issue may have seen Janet Miller's interview with artist Jerilea Zempel. Zempel, a radical knitter (among other things), was featured on The Colbert Report a few months back reading a copy of Bitch! Although the print interview with Zempel in "Buzz" has some great information, there is even more to learn about Zempel and her work. Read the full transcript of the interview after the jump!

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Adventures in Feministory: The Night Witches

DigiBitch post by Briar Levit on March 9, 2009 - 11:24am; tagged aviatrix, soviet pilots, The Night Witches, women pilots, World War Two.

By now, if you've read any of my posts, you probably know that I'm a little bit of a Russophile. So when it was my turn to write this week's Adventures in Feministory, there was no doubt in my mind that I wanted to talk about the Soviet Union's 588th Night Bomber Regiment during World War Two.

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Lady Frenzy!

Love / Shove post by Ashley Brittner on March 6, 2009 - 7:02pm; tagged community, Corin Tucker, Explode Into Colors, Mirah, Reading Frenzy.

Last night Holocene hosted a benefit show for Portland's Reading Frenzy, one of many fledgling independent bookstores nationwide. Portland is an amazing place full of artists willing to help each other out in rough times, and last night's bill was a perfect example. Read more after the jump!

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Nice ink....Barbie?

Love / Shove post by Belin Liu on March 5, 2009 - 12:13pm; tagged barbie, mattel, tattoos.

Barbie will be turning the big 5-0 on March 9 and based on the photo I stumbled across today, half-a-century ain't nothing but a number. Of course, it does help if you're made of plastic. Behold Totally Stylin' Tattoos Barbie!

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Sex, Videotape, and Fries

TV post by Juliana Tringali on March 5, 2009 - 8:51am; tagged advertising, Burger King, Carl's Junior, Fast food, hamburgers, PETA.

Wow, Burger King did it. I was sure Carl's Junior had this in the bag, but no. Burger King has actually succeeded in airing the most sexist fast food commercial of all time. I’m talking, of course, about the ad for BK Burger Shots.

Where do I even begin? Let’s start with the idea that women are so baby-obsessed that they think everything small is a baby. Which leads us to the even weirder idea that when women think they are in the presence of a baby, they make orgasm sounds and want to do whoever is holding said baby/small thing/BK burger shot. But what offends me most is the assumption that hamburgers are so alien to women that they don’t even know you’re supposed to eat them.

[Also posted at Love in the Living Room]

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I Love (an Idealized, Hypermasculine Version of) College

Music post by Kelsey Wallace on March 4, 2009 - 2:58pm; tagged Asher Roth, college, I Love College, misogyny, music.

I know that I posted a get-ready-for-tomorrow's-Douchebag-Decree-by-reading-about-another-douchebag piece last week, but this week finds me with yet another d-bag on the brain (or rather, the YouTube channel). Enter Asher Roth and his music video "I Love College."

Although this video is full of weird college/frat/gender stereotypes and cheesy lyrics about partying, for some reason I can't stop watching it. (It might be the uber-collegiate sample of Weezer's "Say It Ain't So" that plays throughout.) Is this video a postmodern parody of a hypermasculine, idealized version of the college experience? Or is Asher Roth just another creeper who is one beer-pong championship away from sexually assaulting someone? And either way, why is it so weirdly compelling? Watch the video and make the call, after the jump!