I do appreciate references to my coverage of the Saturday Halloween bash on the Daily Page.
And I fully support the high praise and deferential treatment of the Althouse blog in general. After all, she writes about Very Important Topics, whereas I find myself commenting on such things as bed mites and fried bananas. So that words (found in said article from the Daily Page) such as "high profile blogger Ann Althouse" no longer faze me.
However, I must admit it's a punch in the gut to have a reporter pick out this comment from Ocean's Staid Street post:
UW law prof Nina Camic also noted the revelry, posting several photos from State Street. She wrote:
Most certainly, it was a crazy night. Leaving before 1 allowed us to escape the slight altercation between several hundred and the mounted police. I had to feel sorry for the mounted police. Everyone kept cozying up to their horses then cursing them as they dropped manure and people stepped in it.
Fine, so I noted the horse manure. It stood out for me, that's all. I remember the evening as a blur of costumes, bare flesh, mounted police and the steam rising from the pavement where warm horse droppings let their presence be felt. Or smelled. Or something.
Sigh... At least I can take comfort in the fact that my students are too busy with their work to be doing something as frivolous as reading prof blogs, or at least this prof's blog.
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Congrats on the media coverage of your Halloween post. And there's nothing wrong with your scatological commentary. That sort of detail is what makes your writing so authentic and colorful.
ReplyDeleteGosh. Hours after linking to a former Isthmoid (moi!) under Shaking Things Up Here, thedailypage is all OVER you!
ReplyDeleteOh but what price fame! I can just see my mother tut-tuting and giving me that glare that says -- is this what you want to be remembered for? And it doesn't help that, in all honesty, I would have to answer yes.
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