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"Salty." (Scott McLemee)
"Unvarnished." (Phi Beta Cons)
"Splendidly splenetic." (Culture Industry)
"Except for University Diaries, most academic blogs are tedious."
(Rate Your Students)
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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)

Sunday, October 23, 2005

Richard Wilbur (1),
and then Saul Bellow (2)...


...have a little fun.


(1) We poets at the gym begin in fatness,
Whereof come in the end resiliency and flatness.



(2) For I have recipes to bake
And far to go before I wake.




Can't UD too have a little fun? Here's her offering, in honor of her Chocolate Lab:


I wake to sniff and take my sniffing slow.
I learn by hydrants where I have to go.