Great ad campaign

Chelsey — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:50:21 +0000

Things that happen

Chelsey — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:47:21 +0000

I have a bag of ice sitting on the back of my neck. I’m hot. Now that I don’t have your attention…

Updates:

Been adding to the Examiner a bit more, because let’s face it, once grad school is over it’s going to be my writing outlet. Or life outlet.
BUT I did just create a new secret blog (no link provided).
I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of my new Macbook Pro. HURRY, THING.
The Oatmeal endorsed my SXSW panel. Public voting is over now, though, so it’s all a matter of the wait.
If you haven’t seen my thesis blog, it’s currently located at feministgangsta.com (not sure if that will change or not).
This show.

Corpus was like

Chelsey — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:44:39 +0000

Last Day

Chelsey — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 05:22:21 +0000

French desserts and ping pong on behalf of my leave. Though I still technically work at Guttmacher, I will miss the people and the office so much…

I had a good day

Chelsey — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:51:23 +0000

….So I have to document it.

Yesterday:

-My place of internship asked me to continue my employment via contract work :).

-Saul Williams retweeted me. I don’t care if it’s lame for me to get excited; it’s cool!

@SaulWilliams: RT @chelseD link to conversation i recorded us having @ the u of texas. http://chelseydelaney.com/saulwilliams

-Vote for my SXSW panel

Rap battle, for real?

Chelsey — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:29:07 +0000

The mayor of Corpus Christi, Joe Adame, is apparently getting criticism for appearing in Michael White’s rap video (you might remember the video from the previous post as “Exhibit B”). That of course spawned this news story by the Caller Times, in which the rich, oblivious White people of Corpus conspired and started commenting about how White is a gang member. I mean, they guess, right? Cool! Close-mindedness!

Maybe the video is “profane” by the standards of the Kings Crossing crowd, but how often does public discourse about Corpus occur like this between its citizens? If anything, this has exposed exactly what Corpus is like beneath the veil of wealthy fat Republicans. The young generation of Corpus is a bunch of Michael Whites and I am glad it’s finally out there.

I made my own comment to the news story:

sobsister writes:

you know what–
a) i went to high school with michael white and he’s a smart kid. he’s not a “gang member.” though, you sure have made him out to be (proving that corpus is as close-minded as i expected). he’s opened for almost every big rap act that’s come to corpus. you should be glad someone in this city is good at something.

b) if anything, at least this has opened discourse about this city. we’ve been voted fattest and 2nd stupidest in the past year. at least someone is trying to spite the negativity.

c) the “profanity” you speak of is the same “profanity” we would hear on hot z 95 unedited. it’s 2010. get over it. why not tackle teen pregnancy? or is that not valid enough?

It’s not that I’m a big fan of either of these videos (cause….I’m not at all). It’s that I LOVE CORPUS (yes, I represent the 3-6-1….shucks) and I want great things for it, ya know? It all starts with one conversation, and maybe this is it.

Uh oh! 361 rap battle!

Chelsey — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:41:49 +0000

Exhibit A:

Exhibit B:

Blog is a funny word

Chelsey — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:27:02 +0000

I attended the BlogHer conference last week (BlogHer’s 6th year of existence). I’ve been wanting to go to the conference since I interviewed Elisa Camahort Page (co-founder, CEO) three years ago for a journalism assignment.

When I found out about blogher.com, I thought it was amazing, as I was convinced the Internet was the next civil rights frontier. BlogHer is why I started this very blog. Originally “Sob Sister” was called “WWWoman ESource” and it listed women’s organizations in Austin– from what I can remember. I also had a few podcasts of rape survivors telling their stories. I still have those . . .

I became “sob sister” because of the class I took called “Women and Journalism,” in which we studied the noteworthy sob sisters–Women like Nelly Bly, who, in her case, circled the world more quickly than 80 days and pretended to be insane in order to document the internal state of a mental institution. Sob sisters were women who exposed themselves to hell, who faked vulnerability, and did it all for the chance to tell a good story.

I remember I was shocked to find sobsister.com was an available domain name (if it weren’t for patriarchy where would I be? Wait . . . ).

Shortly after speaking with Camahort, I listed this blog in the BlogHer directory. Later it was listed on the blogroll of Feministing. I used to be more openly “feminisophical,” I admit. –Point is, when women at the conference asked me what I blog about, I didn’t really know what to say. Occasionally I’d mumble some crap about the intersection of women, design, and cats. A niche crowd, you all are, for sure.

Conference Highlights:
-Free tampons
-Free Play-Doh
-Free (excellent) food
-A woman wearing these heels (which have a secret special purpose)
-Inspiration (cheesy, I know)
But I used to love blogging! What happened! What am I doing! And if you say grad school I’ll smack you.

Cats Domino

Chelsey — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 04:21:40 +0000

The Internet stardom of Cats Domino has begun. Visit www.catsdomino.com. The site is still being worked on, but the first poster from Team Cats Domino is up. This edition–the special boxing edition–was created/designed by Norman Lau.

“Let’s consider the iPhone commercials”

Chelsey — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:22:45 +0000

A post from the Likely Lad.

Let’s consider the iPhone4 commercials (at least that I’ve seen…)

1) Nervous girl gets short haircut. Presents to boy. Boy fancies it. She is relieved, made happy by his approval.

2) Nervous woman has news for husband(?) He deduces she is now pregnant, expresses happiness. She is relieved, made happy by his approval.

3) Nervous little girl gets braces. Won’t show father; eventually does. He says it looks good. She is relieved, made happy by his approval.

4) Confident son informs his father that the missus is pregnant. They rejoice in shared fatherhood. Mother (out-of-picture) presumably happy about their mutual approval.

Thoughts?