Really, Honey. She is only kidding ...
From the blog, Enjoy and Exciting!:
Siva Vaidhyanathan is my new boyfriend...� So the writing conference is great so far, there's a large number people who want to yap about arcane critical theory all day long and god bless 'em, but there's also a fair number of those who want to talk about issues of intellectual property, ownership and free culture in age of the Internet, the real meaty stuff that concerns me as a writer. Siva Vaidhyanathan (he's an NYU professor who focuses on copyright, ownership and technology) is awesome -- anyone who drops Biz Markie in the first few minutes of his very academic presentation wins my affection. This one guy decided to blah blah about Foucault and the radical theory of the author, and how very special it is and Siva Vaidhyanathan is all "well we can talk about that, but no one outside of this room is gonna care, so that's not going to be much help in changing copyright law." It was so awesome, I wanted to stand up and yell "and that's how it's done, motherfucka!" No offense to the guy, he was actually very well informed and smart, I'm just a fan of public scholarship, the idea that the kind of talk that goes on in university conference like this can be made accessable to normal, everyday people, and considering how many of us are out there keeping blogs and posting our writing, music and art on the Internet, it's more than just academics who need to participate in this dialogue.*sigh* It almost makes me want to go back to grad school. *looks at student loan bill* Almost.So anyway, I'm having a good time. One more day to go!