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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
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- American Culture
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- 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
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- Curly, Larry, and Me — A Fellow Laborer in the Mondoville Trenches
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- 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
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- Kosmos — for liberty-loving academics
- Lawrence Block's Blog
- Left-Wing Institute for Civil Discourse
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- Liberty At Stake
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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
- Plugins
- 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
- 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
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Monthly Archives: January 2019
News From a Current Hometown
The Travel Channel has issued a list of “America’s 50 Most Charming Small Towns.” Mondoville made the list — the only city in South Carolina to do so. I don’t suppose I can claim all the credit for it — but … Continue reading
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Sunday Evening Potpourri: Beauty and Sadness Edition
A bit less than an hour ago, I returned to Mondoville after having spent about 40 or so hours in the environs of Lexington, KY. The occasion for my travel was not one I would have chosen, but it was … Continue reading
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On a Lighter Note…
My beloved Kentucky Wildcats pulled down a national championship over the weekend. This one went to the cheerleaders, their fourth in a row and 24th in the program’s history. While there were a couple of errors (including an inverted … Continue reading
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“I Am Principled…
You are stubborn. He is a pigheaded fool.” I first ran across this in the textbook for a logic course my dad was taking at UT-Nashville when I was in sixth grade. He took me with him on one or … Continue reading
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Sunday Night Potpourri: Shallows and Spiders Edition
We’re moving into night two of a three-day weekend, and I haven’t posted in a few days, so here we go… *** Yesterday the Spawn and I went down to Real City for lunch at her favorite restaurant (her treat) … Continue reading
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“Or As I Call It, Wednesday.”
As I was teaching my 8:00 section of freshpeeps, a chattering crowd of young folks wandered down my hallway. I figured it was likely a tour group of prospective students and went on with my lecture. About a minute after … Continue reading
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The Rising Frequency of Goodbyes
A friend of mine from my first grad school days (and the wife of one of my closest friends from undergrad) died this morning, a few months after having been diagnosed with cancer. She leaves my abovementioned friend and their … Continue reading
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Time Machines
Brian Morton of Sarah Lawrence College had a fine article in yesterday’s NYT about a topic I’ve addressed in the past. As a medievalist — as a teacher of literature — part of my job is to walk my kids through … Continue reading
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Gathering Stones Together
One of my late Christmas presents came early yesterday. Maybe I’d better explain. One of the top items on my Christmas list was A Time to Scatter Stones, Lawrence Block’s latest (and likely final) installment in Matt Scudder’s multi-volume, fictive autobiography. … Continue reading
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Weekend Potpourri: Wedding Bell(e)s Edition
The winter break is coming to a close; classes resume on Wednesday, and tomorrow I have to help score placement exams for some of our incoming students. But it has been a pleasant enough break, and I think I’m ready … Continue reading
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