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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
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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
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- Gypsy Scholar — an academic operating from Korea. Blogging, bulgogi, and bi bim bap — hard to beat!
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- Image — Arts and Culture from a Christian Perspective
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- Merlin's Musings — A Recent Arrival in My Old Stomping Grounds
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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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- 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
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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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Category Archives: Medievalia
Veterans’ Day Potpourri
It’s 7:30 p.m. as I start this post, but with the Standard Time sunset and an afternoon meeting, it feels much later in the day. But even though “the night cometh, when no man can work,” that doesn’t mean a … Continue reading
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Sunday Afternoon Potpourri: 55 in the Rearview Edition
Today is the last day of my 55th trip around the sun. Shortly before I wake up tomorrow morning, I’ll hit 56. Eight years ago today, I was driving home to Mondoville after the conclusion of my brother’s trial, and … Continue reading
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Potpourri: Sunday at the Office, and a Musical Ghost Story
Welcome to August, gang! I’ll be back in the classroom in 22 days, with three FroshComps and my Age of Johnson class this term. It seems that we’ll be masked, at least for a while, which in turn means that … Continue reading
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Sunday Potpourri: From my Office at the Buggy-Whip Factory
I’m in my office this afternoon, listening to Frijid Pink’s psychedelicized version of “House of the Rising Sun,” which manages to owe a lot to Cream while edging into what we would eventually recognize as heavy metal. In the meantime… … Continue reading
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Poetry Corner: Whistling Past the Graveyard Edition
Thomas Nashe (late 1567 – ca. 1601) was an Elizabethan poet, playwright, pamphleteer, and controversialist. He co-wrote the lost Isle of Dogs with Ben Jonson, and is credited with The Choice of Valentines (also known colloquially as “Nashe’s Dildo”), an interesting example … Continue reading
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Saturday Potpourri: Happy New (Academic) Year Edition
So Year 17 of my Mondoville career began this week, with a little more attendant scrambling than usual. Still, I have the urge to write, so here we are. *** I have a weirdly unbalanced schedule this term. In the … Continue reading
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Farewell to a Giant
David Bevington, one of the world’s leading scholars of early English drama, died on Friday, 2 Aug. He was 88 years old. While he is best known for his Shakespearean studies (I use his edition of the Complete Works for my classes, and … Continue reading
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In Which the Prof Leaves a Very Small Mark, and Is Content
A few minutes ago, I was looking to see if a story I wrote many years ago is still available online (It is, but it takes some digging, as the webzine no longer appears to be active. And there’s another one … Continue reading
Sunday Potpourri: Setting Clocks in the Punjab Edition
Had strange dreams overnight that caused me to wake up needing to know the time difference between my old home in Northern KY and an odd hotel (and by odd, I mean nonexistent) in New Delhi, India. (For the record, … Continue reading
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Air Ball…
Early in my career at Mondoville, our Dean of Admissions declared in a faculty meeting that there was no point in recruiting “Duke and Davidson”-type students because we didn’t have “Duke and Davidson”-level professors. (This was during the administration in … Continue reading
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