Just need a quick comment to search for something I think I left here a long time ago. Nielsenhayden.com's "view all by" is great, but it's been too long since I commented on Electrolite...
Seconding from above, Sterling's Zeitgeist and Heaney's Beowulf. Currently reading Aubrey/Maturin, up to The Surgeon's Mate.
Also reading a bunch of things in German, from the Sueddeutsche Zeitung's list of 50 great novels of the 20th century. Some thoughts on the list here and here.
Site stat evidence on the Bush site
http://uptime.netcraft.com/perf/graph?site=www.georgewbush.com
The georgewbush.com site is "access denied" from here in Germany, too. At a time when the Republicans Abroad site is still crowing that they made the difference in Florida in 2000. Guess gwb.com isn't counting on any late-in-the-day persuadables from overseas...
Faculty include:
Aeron Chair of New Economics
Ottoman of Istanbul (engaged in a long intradepartmental feud with the Ottoman of Armenian Genocide Studies)
Throne of Good Reading
Beach Chair of Light Reading (part of the Physics Faculty)
Hank Williams Barstool of Philosophy
Casting Couch of Gender Studies
Backseat of Adolescent Psychology (alternatively, any donor without sufficient manna to back a well-endowed chair could take a backseat instead)
John Ford Saddle of Cinematography (sometimes confused by newcomers with the John M. Ford Lab Bench of Metaphysical Word Games)
Movable Feast of French Culinary History
Movable Beast of Comparative Evolution
Bleachers of Sabermetrics
Nosebleed Seats of Sports Economics (whose holder confounded everyone by marrying the new holder of Club-Level Seats of Corporate Strength)
Broken Down, Scraped Up, Paint Chipped, Rained On, Taken Out Back But Looked So Bad Even the Garbage Men Turned It Down Chair of Blues Poetics
Guest scholars who have overstayed their welcome could be banished to the Divan of Longueur.
I'm sure there are more, but it's time for breakfast.
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