NEWS!

One of our posts inspired a comic at Faulty Logic.  Neat!

FROM THE ARCHIVES:

One year ago Gwen wrote an extensive post about the 1968 Olympic medalists Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who used their medal ceremony to try to draw attention to racism and poverty in the U.S.  Her post does an excellent job of describing and analyzing the protest and its aftermath.  Visit it here.

NEWLY ENRICHED POSTS:

A representative from Reynold’s Kitchens sent us an email in response to our post on their new, recycled Reynold’s Wrap.  See her commentary here.  We’ve also added a link to a second source suggesting that our original post was wrong.  Check it out.

We added two commercials for Malibu Rum to our post about the commodification of Jamaica and “island culture.”

Jay Smooth followed up on his excellent commentary about Asher Roth’s use of the term “nappy headed hos” and black rappers’ materialism. This time his video features Dan Charnas, a hip-hop industry insider. See their discussion about white privilege and racial humility here.

We added another ad to our post about how Axe products are marketed to men.

Jody B. sent in a Progressive Insurance commercial that many believe features two gay men. We added it to our earlier post about an Argentinian bank commercial that positively features a transgender individual; both could be useful for a discussion of when and how corporations choose to associate themselves with minority or marginalized groups, knowing it might offend other segments of society.

We added another image that calls into question the idea that there are clear differences in facial features by race to our post comparing President Obama to his grandfather.

Of course, there’s always more stuff shaped like boobs (scroll way down until you see the NEW! section).

OKAY FINE!

So the truth is we didn’t do much behind your back this month and, in fact, you may have noticed that we didn’t exactly keep up our normal prodigious Sociological Images schedule.  But we have been doing stuff and, in case you are interested, it involved cows, lizards, and gators!  After the jump (because most of you could care less) are some non-sociological images of things we’ve been up to behind your back this month.

The French Quarter (around the corner from my temporary home):

Oak Alley Plantation (New Orleans):

Lizard!

Awesome creepy swamp:

‘Gators!

Grandma’s cows (Oklahoma):

I blog this from McGehee, Arkansas, on our way to Las Vegas via Oklahoma.  Tomorrow: more cows.