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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)

Saturday, November 11, 2006

UD Is Aware...

...that the new film, Stranger than Fiction, features an English professor -- described by many reviewers as "eccentric," natch -- but hasn't pulled herself together to go to the thing yet.

Already, however, more than one student in her Contemporary American Literature course this semester has emailed her, urging her to see it, because she'll be reminded of the class (and of her eccentric self?).

UD enjoys watching the pathetic English professor character as it appears in popular film. She'll blog about this latest representative of the breed as soon as she sees the thing.