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Here's where I'm confused: Where you even talking about Palestinians or Muslims around that time? I went about 10 entries back after the whole coon caricature fun and I can't seem to find anything that relates in any way to what he's talking about.

Or Amiri Baraka for that matter.

If I had read those pieces my guess would be that you were a sci-fi geek whose favorite poet was Johnny Cash.

But maybe I'm colorblind.

*note to self* use the preview button.

where = were.

move along.

Jason, clearly you weren't reading between the lines properly.

I never do, and I'm the one writing the lines.

This must be another aspect of our genetic intellectual inferiority.

*note to self* use the preview button.

where = were.

move along.

Ummm...apparently something weird happened.

It must be hard when your ego is so big you can't see 'round it clearly, and all the world is nothing but a twisted reflection of your own mental furniture. Very disturbing thought, that. I don't WANT the whole world to look like my mental furniture, personally speaking. Much less scary to try to see what's actually there.

On a seperate, I-am-not-scolding-neocon-morons-right-now-but-instead-hijacking-Aaron's-comments note:

I am officially a published scholar.

(Not entirely sure it's something to be excited by, but there it is.)

Talk about checking previews. It would be good if I could spell my own pseudonym, eh?

Stupid laptop keyboard! Too teeny!

if only the "jackass" show had segments about people crashing into things rhetorically, which this particular oxygen-starved-at-birth individual seems to do with such aplomb.

i visited blogcritics once by accident long, long ago, and found myself reading "reviews" written with the skill of a freshman frat pledge majoring in animal husbandry, after about half a keg of miller high life. what they tended to boil down to was "i don't understand this person's blog, so therefore it sucks". i think those people should stick to what they're best at, reviewing the best places off campus to get garlic fries with their $2 well drinks, and how to make your very own beer bong with a ballpoint pen.

(Congratulations, garrity! It is SO something to be excited about.

Tell you what: you hjack the comments, and I'll keep from making snarky, racist and mean comments about anyone whose last name is Olson being the self-assigned racism Gestapo, and instead, congratulate you.)

Garrity, seeing as you and Michelle are actually running the place, y'all can hijack with impunity. Congratulations! If you had a blog, you'd now be linked as Fred, from Angel.

No, that's a compliment. Honest. Stop looking at me like that.

Heather, you live in Minnesota. You can't fling a cat without hitting someone named some variation of Olson/Olsen.

There is no need to use one of the cats to prove this.

Why don't you and Garrity bond over laptops instead?

Olson, Larsen, Gilbrandsen... just a travel tip for those who may visit Minnesota, by the way. If you ever find yourself at a restaurant that requires a reservation and you don't have one? You just tell them you're the Olson or Larsen party. Works every time.

It says something about it up here that I was recognized as an Italian on sight seen, even with red hair. I think there are three more of us.

I didn't know we were bonding. But okay. :) At least I'm not doing it by getting all macha about kicking people's butts who say nasty things about you. I'm getting better, really, I am.

Why is it that garrity doesn't have a blog, anyway?

Congratulations Garrity!

Yeah! Congrats, Garrity!

Woo, Garrity! Go you! It's *so* exciting when you finally see that byline, *your* byline... how fun, and how well-deserved!

yay, Garrity!

i really shouldn't have hit the archived comments link. dammit.

Well, the good news WAS that DP was going on hiatus, or so I thought I read somewhere - probably last time I was at ASV. So what do I know.

And Garrity, we would much rather see you a published scholar than a perished one.

Hey, stop groaning. Somebody had to make the joke.

The deities of your choices bless you all. Or not. As you will.

As for my own blog . . ooooh, the temptation, but time is an issue. Mmmmmm. Afer I've got the family geneology work in hand, I'll think on it more. Tempting, if only so's the other chicks in academe would know they aren't the only ones who are subjected to certain kinds of specialized nonsense.

I vote for bloggy goodness, even if somewhat infrequent.

Also, congratulations, because I realised just now that I'd forgotten that. I'd offer an excuse but... no.

So. Congratulations.

Bloggy goodness gets another vote, Gar. It's not peer pressure, I'm encouraging you to participate in liberation theology vis-a-vis other women in academia. Right? Right.

Garrity, it would appear that, among the many features of Moveable Type I've barely glanced at, is the ability to host multiple blogs.

True, this means you'd be using this domain name, but I think you've earned the distinction(?) of uppity negrosity several times over at this point.

Ok, again, that was a compliment. Why do people keep looking at me like that?

could probably even pay a minor fee at hostway (you're on hostway right, Aaron?) for garrity.uppitynegro.com

I actually added a new blog to manage my weekly stats updates yesterday. It was really easy. Scarily so.

just a thought.

i think Mrs. Giles (or is he Mr. A?) has a similar thing going at http://gujari.allaboutgeorge.com

Fun for the whole family.

And go go academia. Better person than I...I can't even muster up the motivation to take community college classes for fun.

Hooray for nominal fees -- if any at all, most of the hosting plans I've seen include a number of subdomains. I think, anyway. Hooray for bloggy goodness.

*starry eyed*

Thanks, Aaron! Quite the nicest compliment I've been paid in a while.

Best to stick to hijacking, though, until I have an actual, real, no-fooling tenure-track job, and I can fund the thing meself and also not freak about about who might connect me with some of my more subversive online commentary.

I'm honored by the votes of confidence, though. If I ever start writing some regular gig or other, I'll be sure to let you know.

Man, oh, man... the next logical step of course would be distributed blogs -- spreading a blog over two or three different sites with none of the slowness or crippling of blogger. I don't need to be thinking about this kind of stuff a couple of weeks before finals. I really don't.

Coincidentally, if you're looking for included sub-domains and mySQL access and crazy uptime from a host for pretty cheap check out Pure NRG. They don't offer the $4/month crazy cheap deal I'm on any more but they're affordable and I , horrible picky critical, am totally happy with them. Sorry that sounds like some weird ass paid endorsement.