Loafing Around

      In my last class on Tuesday, I offended a few of my students by referring to Britney Spears as "a walking yeast infection." Okay, it was a bit crass (a bit??), but none of my kids should have been surprised that I'd say such a thing. Let's face it, though: Britney and her ilk aren't really musicians, and they're certainly not really songwriters, at least not by my increasingly-outdated mode of thinking; they're more like public embolisms. Oh, our poor cultural arteries, they do suffer so. Regardless, I should amend what I said to my students: Britney's not a walking yeast infection. She's a strutting, squatting, hip-gyrating, cervix-dilating yeast infection. This blog stands appropriately, and humbly, corrected.