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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
- Ace of Spades HQ
- 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
- Common Sense and Wonder
- Crabapple Lane
- Cranky Professor
- Critical Mass
- 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
- WordPress Planet
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Monthly Archives: June 2015
Poetry Corner: Cavalier Edition
Richard Lovelace (1618-57) is best known for his “To Althea, from Prison” (“Stone walls do not a prison make,/ Nor iron bars a cage”) and “To Lucasta, Going to the Wars” (“I could not love thee dear, so much/ Loved … Continue reading
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Thinking Aloud: Notes from the Nockian Remnant
A few weeks ago, as the Mad Dog and I were talking after the Spawn’s graduation, and after everyone else had gone to bed, I told him that I’m seriously considering withdrawing from the political world altogether, to the extent … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Education, Faith, Family, Politics, Why I Do What I Do
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Goodbye to the Fish
Geoffrey Downes reports that his friend and frequent bandmate, bassist Chris Squire of Yes, has died, some months after a diagnosis of cancer. He was 65. Utterly devastated beyond words to have to report the sad news of the passing … Continue reading
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In Which an Insidious Plot is Hatched
As I mentioned earlier today, I had to spend this afternoon looking at freshman essays, in order to determine whether the kids seem ready for our standard comp course. I did this as part of one of our Freshman Orientation sessions, … Continue reading
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Did Someone Say Archway?
One of the things I thought was cool when my family moved to the Cincinnati area was the fact that a local radio station put out an album of local artists each year. They were called the WEBN Album Projects, … Continue reading
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Flag Wa(i)ving and Other Signaling Devices
Watching the current conniption in regard to the Confederate Battle Flag, I’m struck by how quickly we have achieved the Moral Panic Theater portion of the process. Although a significant portion of my family’s history can be traced to this … Continue reading
In Which the Prof Forestalls a Harsh Lesson
As is my habit on school days, I awoke at a ridiculously early hour to release the Hound of the Basketballs, get my shower, and make the Spawn’s breakfast before our 8 a.m. class. However, just before I stepped into … Continue reading
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HeroesCon Day 2 and Home Again
After embarking from the Mardi Naan and getting breakfast at the Monopod yesterday, the Spawn and I headed back to the Convention Center for another day of comic-related activity. There was a 2-block line of folks waiting to get in, … Continue reading
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HeroesCon Day 1 Recap
The Spawn and I rolled into town yesterday afternoon a bit past three, and checked into a comfortable but reasonably priced hotel whose name is an anagram for “Man, A Drain.” We went to our room, set down our bags, and … Continue reading
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Little Prof, Little Prof, Where Have You Been?
Well, I’ve never really been little, and neither have I been ’round the world and back again. But I’m here now, and here’s what’s been going on. Yesterday and today were spent at Flagship, where the Spawn, Mrs. M, and … Continue reading
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