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You don't see a connection?

That is weird. Super unorthodox.

If you haven't read A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, it would make for excellent light reading. Few books have made me laugh so hard.

That Woody Allen line is hilarious. And I'm going to have to go see that hammer and sickle shadow. That's pretty funny.

I assumed it was Duke, too, for some reason.

Really? You're black-listed? That's kind of funny. I applied, but the slim chance I had of getting in was probably destroyed by the info we were told (assuming it is true) regarding their cutting the number of admits in half this year. Ah, well. UC is "where fun goes to die," anyway.

You think they took that into consideration?

Yeah, congrats Chicago admits. I'm pretty jealous. So much for that snooty message they have on their site about only notifying people via postal mail, that they refuse to send decisions via e-mail.

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Obviously you've caught on by now. But did you also know that "gullible" is not in the dictionary? :wink:

Dead serious. Check Indiana's FAQs.

So you don't have any Bukowski I can borrow?

1. Make lists.

You are a sharp one.

I've been avoiding History since application-time, since I figuerd I'll be up to my ears in it for the rest of my life. But in the fall, the last book I read for my field was: Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right Oh, and if anyone wants to read a great article I read earlier that will only take a bit over an hour, read "The Idiocy in American Studies" by Steven Watts. It's from '91, and talks about the intellectual fashion of post-structuralism. It's one of the few articles in a scholarly journal I've encountered that actually made me laugh out loud.

You should really check to see if there is an identical thread before you start one, Mr. Loser.

I think I've already surpassed my January post-count halfway through February. Lots of new members on the board in Feb. Maybe if a Feb stats are done, that should be included.

HBO has the first 12 eps of The Wire on demand right now, if you have HBO.

Because some people have parents stupid enough and wealthy enough to put little Jimmy into such a program?

Your advice reminds me of a Bukowski poem from sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: so you want to be a writer? if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it. if you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screen or hunched over your typewriter searching for words, don't do it. if you're doing it for money or fame, don't do it. if you're doing it because you want women in your bed, don't do it. if you have to sit there and rewrite it again and again, don't do it. if it's hard work just thinking about doing it, don't do it. if you're trying to write like somebody else, forget about it. if you have to wait for it to roar out of you, then wait patiently. if it never does roar out of you, do something else. if you first have to read it to your wife or your girlfriend or your boyfriend or your parents or to anybody at all, you're not ready. don't be like so many writers, don't be like so many thousands of people who call themselves writers, don't be dull and boring and pretentious, don't be consumed with self- love. the libraries of the world have yawned themselves to sleep over your kind. don't add to that. don't do it. unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was.

One would think it has to exist, somewhere.

Hence my confusion about cut-offs for "relatively lower" and "reputable." I was wrong about UW's rank, and I wasn't knocking the reputations of SB or MSU. But jumping from 40ish to a top 10 is probably bigger news than going from Cornell to Berkeley, as mentioned above.

Some cutoffs for "relatively lower" and "reputable" might make this a bit easier. But I feel like there is usually one or two people in most departments who has their PhD from a program outside the top 20. For instance, Stanford has Douglas McAdam (Stony Brook), Gi-Wook Shin (Washington), and Nancy Tuma (Michigan State).

Rob Willer is the man. I've never met him, but he's very nice in e-mails and even sent me one of his articles that was in the process of being published because I expressed interest in the topic.