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- About Last Night — Terry Teachout on the Arts
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- Anne Brannen — a fellow medievalist, Richard Thompson fan, and exceedingly cool person.
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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.
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- 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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- 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
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- 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: September 2012
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My editor just posted a Facebook thread: “If you liked [NAME OF TV SHOW], you should read [NAME OF BOOK].” My response was: If you liked Jersey Shore, you should read Final Exit. Not sure I quite have the hang … Continue reading
Posted in Broken Glass Waltzes, Literature
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My New Favorite Commercial
(UPDATE: Corrected to properly identify the guitarist. Mike Hefferman is in fact Lightfoot’s keyboardist. The Prof regrets the error.) Just saw this during a break in an NFL game: And speaking of Canadians, I had a very pleasant time at … Continue reading
Just Checking In
It’s a full day today for the Spawn’s favorite medievalist. In a few minutes I’m headed to a marching band competition. It’s an hour away, and the Spawn doesn’t perform until 2 p.m., but there’s a frappuccino preserve en route, … Continue reading
On the Snarket
I’ve talked before about the hideous state of affairs in the academic job market, especially in fields like mine. For example, this year’s hiring season began a couple of weeks ago — I’m no longer in the market, but I … Continue reading
Posted in Education
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H.P. Lovecraft Could Not Imagine Such Horrors
One can only hope this is Andy Kaufmanesque meta-humor, but thanks to Alan Cross I now know that there is a site for erotic fan fiction about… Phil Collins. I’m pretty sure this counts as a crime against humanity. … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Music
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QotD: Florentine Edition
Florence King is not Dorothy Parker, but this offers her the advantage of still being alive and snarking. I’ve always gotten at least one chuckle out of everything I’ve ever read of hers, and she kept the streak alive this … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Literature
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And Some Bonus Birthday Cool Points
I’ve made no secret of my fondness for the work of NR and The New Criterion‘s Jay Nordlinger. We’ve exchanged e-mails on a couple of occasions, most recently last week. The subject last week was the value of tenure. Jay … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Education, Politics, Why I Do What I Do
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I May Require an Intervention
In celebration of my having completed 47 trips round the sun, I dropped $100 this morning on TeenBeat Mayhem, a book I have mentioned on a prior occasion. I also received a lovely hand-drawn card from the Spawn, a chocolate … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Literature, Music
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If You’re Really Bored…
I’ll be giving a brief lecture on garage rock at 4 p.m. this afternoon. It will be webcast here — click the “Faculty Lecture Series” link at right. Time to cure that insomnia once and for all.
Posted in Education, Music
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Apropos of Nothing in Particular
I just learned that Randall Jarrell attended the same high school as my mom and dad, my paternal grandfather, and my great-grandfather of that line (Also, Bettie Page, but that’s another post, I guess.) In particular, Jarrell would have been … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Literature
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