April Fools Me

Posted by Myrna the Minx on March 31, 2006 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

It is 9:01 pacific time and I just visited Salon.com’s Broadsheet (Subscription only) and thought I’d gone nuts because it’s become Bradsheet–a blog about Brad Pitt. Normally, Broadsheet is a feminist blog. So just for a moment I don’t get it and then light dawns–its April 1st already on the east coast.

Why Brad? Because he is simultaneously reifying and challenging hegemonic codes of race, class, gender and regional or national identity. As one of this generation’s most popular actors, Pitt has explored many of the cultural and marital tensions of our emerging postmodern era. Depicting masculine American whiteness in various states of crisis and various hair colors, his characters enact complex postmodern agencies; they are never wholly coherent, they are often self-destructive, and they rely on a certain amount of play — between stability and instability, between life and death, between autonomy and alter-dependency, between control and abandon, between Maddox and Zahara. His characters explore the complex and changing postmodern cultural landscape. Tracing Brad’s work and personal life through a variety of theoretical texts and celebrity-interest publications, we hope to explain his multidimensional postmodernity and raise essential questions, especially given recent events, about whether or not he is God’s gift to women.

They have post titles like:

Panhandler begs for Brangelina baby gift
Is Brad necessary?
Is Angelina flying too high?
Brad dresses for success
Bradulation

That’s a good one.