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UD is...
"Salty." (Scott McLemee)
"Unvarnished." (Phi Beta Cons)
"Splendidly splenetic." (Culture Industry)
"Except for University Diaries, most academic blogs are tedious."
(Rate Your Students)
"I think of Soltan as the Maureen Dowd of the blogosphere,
except that Maureen Dowd is kind of a wrecking ball of a writer,
and Soltan isn't. For the life of me, I can't figure out her
politics, but she's pretty fabulous, so who gives a damn?"
(Tenured Radical)

Saturday, July 10, 2004

"After the intermission, a panel discussion that Mr. Gioia led suggested some of the directions that public discussion of the report might take. One consequence may be that people already enamored of literature will want to proclaim that fact all the more clearly, in defiance of the prevailing trend."




I LOVE H.J.


Hate aliterates
They’re stupid and dumb
They play bang bang games
And they suck their thumb
Leave ‘em to their wide screens
That shit’s too pathetic
For you and me you bad boy

Rollin' down the Imperial Highway
With a hyperliterate next to me
Santa Ana winds blowin' hot from the north
And we was born to read

Roll down the window put down the top
Crank up books on tape baby
Don't let the fiction stop
We're gonna read till we just can't read no more

From the Spoils of Poynton to Washington Square
From the The Sacred Fount to The Story of a Year
Everybody's very happy
'Cause the sun is shining all the time
Looks like another perfect day

I love H.J. (We love him)
I love H.J. (We love him)
Posted at: 7/10/2004 10:56:00 AM