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- A Cup of Tea with My Knitting, Please — A former student on knitting, newlywed life, and other matters
- About Last Night — Terry Teachout on the Arts
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- Alan Cross — Canada's Answer to John Peel
- American Culture
- Anchoress
- Anne Brannen — a fellow medievalist, Richard Thompson fan, and exceedingly cool person.
- Arethusa's Fountain
- Athens and Jerusalem
- 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)
- Chicago Boyz
- Civil War Daily Gazette — All the news that's 150 years old.
- Clampdown
- Clue Batting Cage
- College Insurrection — A Spot on the Right Side of Academia
- Comics Curmudgeon
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- Curly, Larry, and Me — A Fellow Laborer in the Mondoville Trenches
- David McElroy
- Dead Man Dance
- Development Blog
- Diagnosis: Urine — Erma Bombeck meets Tallulah Bankhead
- 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
- Dr. Weevil
- 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
- Instapundit
- Kick-Boxing Rhinos
- Kosmos — for liberty-loving academics
- Lawrence Block's Blog
- Left-Wing Institute for Civil Discourse
- Legal Insurrection
- Liberty At Stake
- Llama Butchers
- 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
- Plugins
- Poking You Repeatedly In the Face — A Former Student
- Practical Historian — One stop for education and serotonin!
- ProfMondo on Twitter
- Prone to Laughter
- Quid Plura
- 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
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Monthly Archives: June 2012
Some Days the Bear Gets You…
… and today I’m bear chow. Woke up at 4 this morning with serious pain in my lower front tooth — the one I had repaired a while back. No problem… Charlotte’s a big enough city that it’ll have emergency … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Family
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Once More Unto the Geeks, Dear Friends
For the second consecutive year, the Spawn and I have driven a couple of hours to Charlotte, NC, home of HeroesCon. We’re not staying at the Posh Hotel this time, opting for a hipster hangout instead (not because we’re hip, … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Family
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Love and Theft
When I first got into the business in my grad school days, back when Adam Scriveyn was still sharpening his quill, I used to ask my students, “What was the last album/CD you bought?” I asked that question a few … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Music, Why I Do What I Do
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Meanwhile, Higher Up the Food Chain
The recent resignation under pressure of the University of Virginia’s president came under discussion at the lunch table today, following as it does on the heels of a dustup at Texas. As usual, Margaret Soltan has been on the case, … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Education
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A Preview of Coming Insurrections
William Jacobson’s Legal Insurrection brought me one of my first blogalanches when I got into this racket, and I’ve been proud to have it on my blogroll since my early days. I swung by a few minutes ago, and ran … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Politics
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A Quick Dose of Nice
Heaven knows I spend enough time kvetching about the imbalance between academics and athletics in higher ed. However, some things just make you smile, and I think this dispatch from Mondoville is an example of that. As it happens, I … Continue reading
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Happy Birthday, Macca
Today is Paul McCartney’s 70th birthday. Between the Beatles and his solo career, he has sold 100 million albums, topped the Billboard charts more than 30 times, played a critical role in the development of bass guitar performance (using it … Continue reading
Posted in Music
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Father’s Day at Spackle Manor
It’s been a lovely day. Gifts from the ladies were plentiful, highlighted by an 8-space picture frame, filled with pix of three generations of Mondos. The Spawn also presented me with a pencil sketch of the two of us, and … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Literature
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Laws Are for People We Don’t Like
At least, that’s the conclusion I’m forced to draw based on yesterday’s move by the President to unilaterally nullify refuse to enforce laws that interfere with his sworn duty to get re-elected. But of course, there’s a problem with government-by-executive-order. … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
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“Train for Ill, and Not for Good”
The Mad Dog likes to needle me occasionally about my tragic view of humanity. He finds my lack of faith in human institutions… disturbing. But one of the advantages of my position is that I get to engage in rueful … Continue reading