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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
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- College Insurrection — A Spot on the Right Side of Academia
- Comics Curmudgeon
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- Cranky Professor
- Critical Mass
- Curly, Larry, and Me — A Fellow Laborer in the Mondoville Trenches
- David McElroy
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- 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: September 2016
Yeah, It’s the Guardian…
… so I shouldn’t be surprised, but I still found myself stopping at a line from a review of Candice Millard’s account of Winston Churchill’s time in the Boer War: For Millard, Churchill (whose mother was American) is not an … Continue reading
In Which the Prof Receives a Birthday Surprise
So I turned 51 sometime before I woke up today (but I prefer to think of myself as three 17-year-olds in terms of size and general maturity level), and I’ve been receiving well wishes from lots of folks via the … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Literature, Pixel-stained Wretchery, Why I Do What I Do
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Paging Andrew Stevens…
Mr. Stevens, would you be kind enough to give me a holler at my prof-dot-mondo-dot-blog at gmail-dot-com address? I’m interested in some Intellectual Chaos, if that remains a going concern. (And of course, anyone else who wishes to reach me at … Continue reading
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“Radio is a Sound Salvation”: Gig Report
The Berries found their way into a new venue last night, as we made our debut at Greenville’s Radio Room. We set out on our expedition to the Upstate after a 6:30 load, and reached the venue a few minutes … Continue reading
Posted in Alternating Feet, Music, Uncategorized
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In Which The Prof Preaches The Gospel According to Sam Spade
Having failed to learn his lesson last time, the campus pastor asked me to deliver the message at today’s weekly chapel meeting. Here’s what I said. In Arlington, VA, Dashiell Hammett is probably spinning in his grave this morning. He … Continue reading
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How’s That for Relevant?
In today’s Seven Deadlies session, we were talking about the sin of Pride and its near relative, Vainglory. As part of this, we read a chunk of Prudentius, and a couple of questions from Aquinas’s Summa Theologica. During the discussion of Vainglory, … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Education, Faith, Literature, Medievalia, Why I Do What I Do
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Birthday Wishes and Other Saturday Potpourri
Yesterday marked a couple of anniversaries that I find personally rewarding. In 1988, Tom Browning pitched the only perfect game in the history of my beloved Cincinnati Reds: I remember that, however, because it was also the Mad Dog’s birthday, … Continue reading
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