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reddit creeps and girls’ real lives

Posted on October 13, 2012 by ctb — 3 Comments

Adrian Chen’s outing of the real identity of Violentacrez (Michael Brutsch), one of Reddit’s most despicable (now former) subreddit moderators and trolls has caused quite a kerfuffle on the site. Violentacrez was one of the originators of such objectionable subreddits as /r/jailbait and…

De Marica a Maricon: Following Definitions of Marica, Maricon, and Sodomia with the Real Academia Española

Posted on February 3, 2009 by ctb — 4 Comments

I’m currently writing a chapter for my book on the events surrounding the establishment of local ruling juntas in Quito in 1809 and 1810. In chasing down a few citations a couple of days ago, I came across a classic,…

A word cloud of my dissertation

Posted on August 8, 2008 by ctb — Leave a comment

What does one do for the first post on a new blog? Well, rather than the whole, this is who I am post or this is what this blog is post, how about a word cloud visualization of the cross…