rhetoriclee - May 27, 2020I love fewer things more than a really good story. But I loathe anecdotes. I know, I know. What possible bone could I have to pick with anecdotes? What, on earth, has she found to bitch about now? Those quick little examples, quirky little stories, that we tell to harmlessly…
rhetoriclee - May 13, 2020We’re on YouTube now! So head over the YouTube Channel RhetoricLee Speaking–same name–if you’d rather watch me rant at you rather than listen. I barely played sports in high school and all I remember from getting my ass handed to me in gym class, other than wishing we were allowed…
rhetoriclee - April 28, 2020If there’s one silver lining from the pile of bull-honkey that has been the media landscape during COVID-19, it is the resurgence of the television show Community on Netflix. Not only the fact that it’s back, but also that it has managed to grab a top ten Netflix ranking, renews…
rhetoriclee - April 21, 2020Welcome back to part 2 of a close look at the very first ⅗ of the very first episode of “Tiger King,” the COVID sensational Netflix pop-umentary–meaning “pop documentary,” my new word for documentaries like “Tiger King” that are about as interested in helping us dive into the depths of…
rhetoriclee - April 14, 2020Alright, I’m doing it: defending exactly the first ⅗ of the very first episode of “Tiger King,” the COVID sensational Netflix pop-umentary, (meaning pop documentary, my newly coined word for documentaries like “Tiger King” that are about as interested in educating the public as I am in watching actual documentaries–you…
rhetoriclee - April 7, 2020I’m fixing to spoil season 7 of Brooklyn Nine-Nine by revealing the twist at the end of season 6. The spoiler is only a little bit though. My focus is on a side-story featuring Sergeant Terry Jeffords, played by the hunky and hilarious real-life Terry Crews, who stumbles onto perhaps…
rhetoriclee - March 31, 2020It is no small thing to be a self-proclaimed lover of the f-word. American culture has always thrived on the puritan and even though we hear often the cliche that, “we need civility more today now than ever,” the truth is that there has always been a pressure to perform…
rhetoriclee - March 24, 2020I am going to hit you with a little bit of pop culture but we’re gonna go non-fiction. Because I really want to dig into the harm that cliches do. Not any particular cliche but a general way of thinking and speaking that is derivative, trite, hackneyed, platitudinal, whatever synonym…
rhetoriclee - March 16, 2020In the last blog post, I critiqued the cliched use of “challenging people” in motivational culture; I challenge you to bullet journal; I challenge you to get a coffee enema; I challenge you to just, like, be better. We are continuing in that vein, investigating another of these motivational cliches:…
rhetoriclee - March 11, 2020I am not a “challenge” person. I don’t sign up to do races. I don’t put my name in those “win a blah blah” business card buckets at lunch counters. When my brother and I were kids, you could bet him about anything and he’d do it. “Bet you can’t…
