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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.
- Brambles, Buttress, Sky
- Catholic Coffeetalk — One of my Twitter Peeps (Youthful Division)
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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!
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- I'm Not Herzog — Blogging from ChiTown
- Iconoclast — New English Review
- Image — Arts and Culture from a Christian Perspective
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- Marc Bousquet — How the University Works
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- Medievalists.net
- Merlin's Musings — A Recent Arrival in My Old Stomping Grounds
- MondoSpawn's deviantART Page
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- 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.
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- 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
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- Practical Historian — One stop for education and serotonin!
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- Steven Hart
- Stormfields — Postings from a professor at Hillsdale
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- 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: March 2016
Goodbye to a Berry
My former colleague at Newberry College and one of the four original Berries, K. Douglas (“Doug”) Cook, died this afternoon after an extended physical decline. Doug was a veteran of the Vietnam War, where he was wounded, and worked in … Continue reading
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“Swiper, No Swiping!”
What happens when you find out someone has filed the serial numbers off your novel and is selling it (at a brisk pace, or at least an amble) at Amazon? Eilish O’Hanlon can tell you, and she does at The Independent. … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Literature, Pixel-stained Wretchery
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“We’re Only In It for the Money”
… well, it’s one of my favorite albums, and I can confidently say I’ve listened to it hundreds of times over the years, but it sure as heck doesn’t apply to my career. Each year the Chronicle of Higher Ed rolls … Continue reading
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Happy Easter, 2016
Teaching at a small school in the buckle of the Bible Belt, my students are sometimes startled when I talk about the Christian mythos as a comic story — an idea I learned from Northrop Frye. The story of love, … Continue reading
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Poetry Corner: Good Friday
Today’s poem is by one of my favorite poets, Edwin Arlington Robinson. From his second published volume, The Children of the Night, the poem was published in 1897. It remains true. Calvary Friendless and faint, with martyred steps and slow, Faint … Continue reading
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Greek to Me…
Night before last, the Spawn was initiated into one of Mondoville’s three sororities. We’re happy for her, and for her sorority as well — she wound up in the one I had always figured would best suit her. She learned … Continue reading
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Art Bar After-Action Report
Got up a little while ago after a late night of Berries-related activity, and most of the world missed a really good show in Real City last night. For their benefit, the following… Got my gear loaded up at six, … Continue reading
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“Go-go Getter”
I’ve been called a lot of things over the years, but “go-getter” isn’t among them. I never had the ambition to become a titan of industry or finance, and while when I was a kid I thought it might be … Continue reading
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Goodbye, Mr. Emerson, and Saturday Potpourri
I was blindsided yesterday afternoon when I heard about the apparent suicide of Keith Emerson, one of rock’s greatest keyboardists, and possibly primus inter pares based on seniority and innovation. With the Nice, and most notably with Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, Emerson’s … Continue reading
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“All You Need Is Ears”
The grammar isn’t all that great (at least to speakers of American English), but that’s the title of Sir George Martin’s autobiography. Mr. Martin, who died yesterday at the age of 90, was the producer of all but one of the … Continue reading
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