... while I adjust my professional career. Please check back in a little while for more ranting.
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You know I'm reviewing my QM blogging. Time for some rants.
The Black Forest Inn: Anarchists 2; Scientists 1
A few words about a new novel I read half of and didn't feel like finishing. (Better say something or the publishers might strike me from their mailing list.)
My Friday rant about intellectuals triggered lots of interesting comments, both positive and negative.
Treb:
?!
Talks, conferences, workshops, trips overseas, grant applications...
and finding a new position.
Grants! Pah! You just have to write them, I get to crush evaluate them.
Surely you won't need a grant, you'll be able to live off the earnings from your book.
Bob
Ah, right Bob. Sure I will. Why didn't I think of that?
<sotto voce>Sob!</sotto voce>
Hmmm. Perhaps you need to spice it up a bit. Remove the serious arguments, through in a few gratuitous insults ("Mallet's ideas were so bad that I had to adopt an incontinent dog, just so the paper would be useful for something") and give it a snappier title - "Mayrless"?
Then you just need to decide what the front cover will look like.
Bob
I will use that insult sometime. Not in the book though...
Then you just need to decide what the front cover will look like.
Oh thank you very much -- now I've got this image of Wilkins (the real one, not the albino gorilla avatar) wearing a low-cut, high-hem black dress AND a blond wig, stuck in my mind.
That's actually physically painful to contemplate.
Ha! Now I just have to pose for it. It's not the first time I've been in a low cut high hem black dress. 'Course, I had a beard then too...