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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)

Thursday, May 10, 2007

UD on the Receiving End...

...of some extremely kind words from Erin O'Connor of Critical Mass, the great blog that made me want to be a blogger too:

A winning and uncompromising critic of the academy, Soltan has managed to combine harsh criticism of some of academe's worst excesses and hypocrisies with a charismatic ability to avoid being condemned for being an academic herself. That's a tough balancing act, and I admire her for it.


Those words mean a lot to me, and I'm thankful for them.

Now, off to see the film Indoctrinate U.

Must say, though, that I don't feel very charismatic right now. I just fell asleep on the Metro, and dropped the pen I'd been clutching. It was returned to me as I left the car by a woman who'd been sitting nearby and no doubt watching the comedy of UD trying to write while sleeping...
Posted at: 5/10/2007 05:03:00 PM