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Yes, Ribs Will Be Eaten….By Me.

This weekend finds your humble narrator in Memphis TN, where the bi-annual RSA conference will be held.  Rhetoricians from all over the country (and beyond) will descend on this sleepy Southern town, home of Graceland, Sun Studios and slow-cooked pork products, and throw their fierce academic-fu all over the place.  Will the lure of such creature comforts keep yours truly away from the conference proper, or will I buckle down and play the part of the Good Little Conference-goer?  The truth, I suspect, lies somewhere in the middle.

Expect a follow-up post…  In the meantime, *drool*:

[CC-licensed photo by Mark Mascolino]

Adding Fuel to the Copyright Fire…

Here we have a couple of links to some wholesome Negativland goodness for all you copyleftists out there.

• Gimme The Mermaid (video collage): http://www.illegal-art.org/video/popups/gimme.html
• “Two Relationships to a Cultural Public Domain” (a polemical essay): http://www.law.duke.edu/shell/cite.pl?66+Law+&+Contemp.+Probs.+239+(WinterSpring+2003)
• U2 vs. Negativland iPod (from way back): http://www.ipodhacks.com/article.php?sid=1150