I don't mean to nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan?

True fangirl confessions: I wrote Richard Siken a note about how much I liked Crush, and how I saw lots of continuities between his poetry, SPN, and the Mountain Goats in their treatment of masculinity/violence/drinking/desire/road trips/that general constellation of Americana. He wrote back noting that Crush predated SPN (which I knew, truly!) but indicating that he knew of the SPN/Siken correspondences through the power of the internet. Heh.

( spoilers believe in miracles )

( economies of desire )

Believe it or not, all these are related in one way or another to my academic interests. ( technology and culture, champagne, money and intimate relations, history of marketing, digital libraries )