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    Kate and Me, a Romance: Or, Fandom and Participatory Culture as Inoculation against the Postmodern E
    Rachel Cochran
    • Nov 7, 2017

    Kate and Me, a Romance: Or, Fandom and Participatory Culture as Inoculation against the Postmodern E

    Track One: Sat In Your Lap I resisted the pull of Kate Bush as long as I could. Upon first hearing her music in 2008, my initial thought was that something was wrong with my speakers. I couldn’t believe the weird, witchy wailings, the shrieking, gasping vocals. They absolutely repelled me. Still, something brought me back, again and again. For a while I splashed around in the kiddie pool of her gentler, radio-friendly ’80s jams, “Running Up That Hill” and “Cloudbusting” and “
    James Lowell Brunton
    • Aug 19, 2014

    Nostalgia in Motion

    “…nostalgia. It's delicate... but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek, 'nostalgia' literally means, 'the pain from an old wound.' It's a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn't a spaceship. It's a time machine. It goes backwards, forwards. It takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It's not called the Wheel. It's called a Carousel. It lets us travel the way a child travels. Around and around, and back home again... to a place where
    watershedunl
    • Jul 19, 2014

    Watershed

    A watershed is a geographic feature that divides water into different systems. A watershed also represents the tributaries and gathering ground for a central body of water. As graduate students at the University of Nebraska, we acknowledge the significance of watersheds to the agricultural industry as well as the ecology of the Great Plains region. However and perhaps most popularly, a watershed is known to be a crucial event or occurrence recognized as causing a turning poin
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