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) |
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Robert Goulet as Gustav von Aschenbach Okay, I finally watched a Super Bowl ad in its entirety. An extremely old Robert Goulet, smeared with makeup to look like von Aschenbach in the last stages of his transformation into a grotesque clown for the love of Tadzio in Thomas Mann's story, Death in Venice, cavorts in an office while various employees sleep. What? |