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- About Last Night — Terry Teachout on the Arts
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- American Culture
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- Anne Brannen — a fellow medievalist, Richard Thompson fan, and exceedingly cool person.
- Arethusa's Fountain
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- Ball State English Blog — One of the Prof's alma maters (even though they may not want to claim him)
- Better View of the Moon — Poet Karen Craigo
- Bleat — James Lileks
- Bob's Blog
- Book Collecting 101 — Indulge your bibliomania.
- Brambles, Buttress, Sky
- Catholic Coffeetalk — One of my Twitter Peeps (Youthful Division)
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- Disrupt the Narrative
- Ditching the Party — A Playwright, Former Classmate and Cool Person
- Documentation
- Doubleplusundead — A fellow AoS Moron, so, less than SFW.
- Dr. Boli's Celebrated Magazine
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- Ed Kurtz — A Horror Writer and Good Guy
- Educated Imagination — A blog about the Prof's hero, Northrop Frye
- Embedded Theologian — Politics, Culture, Eclectica
- English Grad Student Shaming
- Far Side of the World — A Mondovillian Heads to Malaysia
- Fear and Loathing in Georgetown (FLG)
- Fencing Bear at Prayer
- Fenster Moop — A Quirky Edublogger
- Free Thoughts — Libertarianism.org's blog
- G. Ross Key — The guy who helped me stay fairly sane in my M.A. program
- Geoffrey Chaucer's Blog
- Gormogons
- Gypsy Scholar — an academic operating from Korea. Blogging, bulgogi, and bi bim bap — hard to beat!
- Haligweorc
- Harmless Drudgery — A Blogging Lexicographer
- Hey Miller! — John J. Miller
- Hit and Run
- House of Eratosthenes
- Huck — A thoughtful blogger from another ideological neighborhood
- I Think Therefore I Err
- I'm Not Herzog — Blogging from ChiTown
- Iconoclast — New English Review
- Image — Arts and Culture from a Christian Perspective
- Imaginative Conservative
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- Kosmos — for liberty-loving academics
- Lawrence Block's Blog
- Left-Wing Institute for Civil Discourse
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- Liberty At Stake
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- Mad Dog, Esq. — The Major (Ret.)'s spot in the blogosphere
- Maggie's Farm — A Group Blog of Eclectic Coolness
- Maiden Aunt — Librarians are the Secret Masters of the Universe
- Marc Bousquet — How the University Works
- Maverick Philosopher
- Medievalists.net
- Merlin's Musings — A Recent Arrival in My Old Stomping Grounds
- MondoSpawn's deviantART Page
- Naked Villainy
- New and Improved Me — A former student who claims to have minored in Mondoism. See the damage I've done.
- New Atlantis — At the Intersection of Science and Culture
- New Criterion
- New World In My View — A Lawyer Putting Her Money Where Her Faith Is.
- Nice Deb
- Nightfly
- Nobody Sasses A Girl in Glasses
- Northward Contrail
- NRO's The Corner
- Otto's Random Thoughts — Frequent Commenter J. Otto Pohl's Blog
- Pearls, Manners, and Life — A Former Student and Current GOP Operative
- Peter's Power Pop
- Phi Beta Cons
- Pileus — Scholars with a bias toward liberty and personal responsibility
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- Poking You Repeatedly In the Face — A Former Student
- Practical Historian — One stop for education and serotonin!
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- Prone to Laughter
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- Regular Guy Believes — A recovering academic and member of the Moronosphere.
- Res Studiorum et Ludorum
- Rhymes With Cars & Girls
- Ricki's Rants and Rambles — Another EduBlogger, Working the Science Side of the Street.
- Right Network
- Scuffulans Hirsutus — Anime, Chibi, and Other Fancy Stuff
- Silicon Graybeard
- Six Meat Buffet — Very nice, even if they are UT fans
- Somewhat Reasonable
- Steven Hart
- Stormfields — Postings from a professor at Hillsdale
- Suggest Ideas
- Support Forum
- The Berries are GO! — My band's blog.
- The Blog that Was Thursday
- The Happy Serf — A Former Neighbor's Perspective
- The Misadventures of Katie — a bass-playing Clash fan and former student
- The Port Stands At Your Elbow
- Themes
- Thoughts from the Corner Office
- Thoughts Inserted Here — A former advisee considers things.
- Tim Kowal at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen
- Transterrestrial Musings — A dextrospheric space blog
- University Diaries
- Unlocked Wordhoard — Medieval stuff
- What's Wrong With the World
- WordPress Planet
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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Hulk SMASH!
I’m feeling a bit better today — probably the steroids they’ve got me on as part of my pharmacopia to deal with my mild case of Andromeda Strain (and don’t you just hate when you strain your Andromeda?) Seriously, I’m … Continue reading
Bleah.
I’m now in week four? Week five? of the creeping crud that started as an ear infection, migrated to my chest, and now bothers roughly everything between my eyebrows and xiphoid process. Meanwhile, Gradeapalooza has struck full force this week, … Continue reading
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“Time Out for Fun”
This post may be found at The American Culture.
Posted in Culture, Education, Faith, Family, Literature
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You Say It’s Not an Evolution…
One of the points I try to underscore when I teach in my field is that my students need to rethink their understanding of the medieval. Typically, insofar as my kids think of the Middle Ages at all, it tends … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Education, Literature, Medievalia, Politics
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Thanksgiving Kindling
Lost-in-the-Woods County is relatively bereft of retail opportunities, so Black Friday is a relatively insignificant occasion around here. An in-law told me that Wal-Mart is slammed, but that’s really about it. Instead, I’m catching up a bit on my electronic … Continue reading
Posted in Literature
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In Which the Prof is Thankful
Meanwhile, in Lost-in-the-Woods County, it’s a gray day, threatening rain — which is OK, and how I think this time of year should look. Indeed, it looks like the kind of day made for staying inside with people you love, … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Education, Faith, Family, Literature, Music, Why I Do What I Do
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A Quick Look-In
Hello from Lost-in-the-Woods County, KY. Mrs. M is at the store and the Spawn is performing her morning ablutions, so I’m watching a little TV and poaching an Internet connection. A couple of quick observations: Should the Gormogons see fit … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Family, Medievalia
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Congratulations to the Major (Ret.), Now Mad Dog, Esq.
Today in DC, my best friend and frequent sparring partner will mark his retirement from the USAF after 12 years there. Combined with his previous 8 in the Navy (and a dose of law school in between), he has his … Continue reading
Posted in Family
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Everywhere That I’m Not
Spent yesterday in Real City, buying books — new and used — for myself and the Spawn, and having dinner with commenter Pondering Pilgrim. While I was at the Frappuccino Preserve yesterday afternoon, I glanced up and my father walked … Continue reading
Trade-Offs
A few years ago, a former Mondoville colleague and I were talking — my friend was none too pleased. He had just emerged from a meeting that included representatives from various members of the college community — faculty, staff, administration, … Continue reading
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