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- Better View of the Moon — Poet Karen Craigo
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- Embedded Theologian — Politics, Culture, Eclectica
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- 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
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- Gypsy Scholar — an academic operating from Korea. Blogging, bulgogi, and bi bim bap — hard to beat!
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- New and Improved Me — A former student who claims to have minored in Mondoism. See the damage I've done.
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- Pearls, Manners, and Life — A Former Student and Current GOP Operative
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- The Blog that Was Thursday
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- The Misadventures of Katie — a bass-playing Clash fan and former student
- The Port Stands At Your Elbow
- Themes
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- Thoughts Inserted Here — A former advisee considers things.
- Tim Kowal at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen
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- What's Wrong With the World
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Monthly Archives: April 2013
On Anniversaries
Today is my third bloggiversary, which I’m observing during breaks in Gradeapalooza and a multi-day process of interviewing candidates for department chair (and the candidates are welcome to it. I’ve had people ask me if I wanted that gig, and … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Pixel-stained Wretchery, Why I Do What I Do
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Goodbye, George Jones.
The man Gram Parsons named as his favorite poet has died at the age of 81. I suspect that he was probably surprised to have lasted that long himself. But he leaves quite a legacy. I’ll always associate “the Possum” … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Music
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QotD: Shakespearean Edition
In a review of “the Scottish play” (you know, that one about the guy Malcolm III replaced), Ron Rosenbaum at Slate examines a concept I’ve discussed before — the difficulty of calling evil by its right name in a materialistic, … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Medievalia
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A Chance at Kindness
My dad read a lot, nursing a book-a-day jones for most of his life. There were quite a few authors he enjoyed a great deal, but if you pressed him for a favorite, he typically would choose Roger Zelazny. When … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Literature, Why I Do What I Do
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Come for the Debauchery! Stay for… Well, the Debauchery!
From a student journal: [Freshman Dormitory] is like high school, with an unlimited supply of booze, dope, and condoms. I’m torn between being appalled and forwarding this to our admissions office for inclusion in future brochures.
Posted in Culture, Education
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Goodbye, Mrs. Frankweiler
Although I had free run of my dad’s bookshelves and the adult section of the public library when I was a kid, I certainly tucked into my share of kidlit as well. Through my grade school library, I dove into … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Family, Literature
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An Observation…
One of my reliably liberal Facebook friends just posted the following. While it doesn’t specifically mention the Boston bombers, I can’t help but suspect that’s what prompted her post: I can’t stand ignorance! You can’t punish a whole group of … Continue reading
Still Here…
No, I haven’t forgotten about the blog — I’ve just been swamped. Gradeapalooza continues apace; I finished the research papers from my freshpeeps last night. I’ve got my Seven Deadlies papers on deck for tomorrow, but I’m taking today off. … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Faith, Family, Why I Do What I Do
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A Few Words From the Late Michael Been
One of favorite bands from the 1980s was The Call, and when Michael Been, the band’s principal writer and vocalist, died a couple of years back, I wrote a brief remembrance. Given today’s events in Boston, I found myself thinking … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, Music, Pixel-stained Wretchery, Why I Do What I Do
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We Interrupt This Gradeapalooza…
… to think about writerly stuff (as I try to purge my memory of the research paper I graded this afternoon that was done in Comic Sans — it’s like they want my head to explode.) As you may know, … Continue reading
Posted in Broken Glass Waltzes, Culture, Literature
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