New(ish) Tidbits

[mlerules]

On Doing Things vs. Scholarship - Historical Hairstyles Recreated, Rather Than Merely Debated.

While we're on the topic of hair: "Waxing Our Way to the ER - "[H]ere’s the best piece of advice you’ll get today: Don’t drink and shave your pubes. You’re welcome."

Another hairy subject: Ed Testing & Seattle Teacher's Just Saying NO!

Comments

[princekermit.livejournal.com]

I love that first article! Reminds me of some of the stuff andi_sunrider has been doing with her corsetry.
(And maybe it's me, but I love "average" people giving academics the bird by actually doing stuff.)

[rekre8.livejournal.com]

I kinda took offense at this part, on the stylist's behalf:

"I could tell even from the first version that it was a very serious piece of experimental archaeology which no scholar who was not a hairdresser—in other words, no scholar—would have been able to write,"

Because he just marginalized the very scholarship that the stylist did. Hey guess what? She did research and experiments and write a paper that got published in a scholarly tome. That's scholarship, even if she isn't on the roles of a university.

Also, the wax article was pure gold. Maybe that isn't the right phrase to use, there....

[lizmoop.livejournal.com]

I really want that stylist to do my hair.

[mlerules.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah - that's totally part of the appeal for me as well.