- Ari Kelman, Kathy Olmsted, and Eric Rauchway teach history at a fine public university at the western edge of the American West.
- Scott Eric Kaufman earned a doctorate in English at a closely related fine public university in a similar location.
- Neddy Merrill teaches philosophy at an American liberal arts college.
- David H. Noon teaches history at a fine public university at one of the many edges in the American West.
- Dana McCourt is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at an American university.
- Vance Maverick holds a PhD in computer science and develops software at the westernmost edge of the American West.
- David Silbey teaches history at a small American university that is, technically, in an extremely eastern part of the American West.
Your guess is as good as ours, but this blog seems to be about history, philosophy, literature, and selected political and cultural observations with a strong bias toward yiddishkeit, WASPhood, the 1980s, Canadiana and, most of all, the Muppets. Also, the disappointing but audaciously hopeful and hopefully presidential President-elect(!!!!!!!!!!) Barack Obama, for whom we have a whole category.
What with all the historical and the philosophical represented here, maybe we should suggest that
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December 19, 2007 at 2:07 am
Rob Wagner
Your blog is terrific. You may be pleased or you may be horrified but I have linked you to my own blog.
http://13martyrs.blogspot.com/
December 19, 2007 at 6:14 am
Jeff Boatright
I just found our blog today. It’s made my short list (now up to 6, thanks for the additional time-waster!).
Best regards,
Jeff
December 19, 2007 at 7:17 am
pm
Just found your site. Please provide a link to your past posts-they are great.
December 19, 2007 at 7:47 am
eric
Thanks for all your kind comments. pm — link to the archives is in the left column –
December 19, 2007 at 8:22 am
Jonathan Earle
Kudos, Eric and Ari. Great blog concept, and thanks to Josh Marshall I found you. ‘Til AHA, then…
January 7, 2008 at 7:33 pm
G.D.
i’m a big fan of your blog, but i can’t seem to get the RSS feed to work.
suggestions?
January 7, 2008 at 7:36 pm
ari
G.D.: I think Eric is on the road right now. Either that or he no longer loves me. I was counting on lunch today, but he wasn’t around. Anyway, he might have some suggestions. I’m a tech imbecile. And not really that great a historian. Plus, my blogging needs work. Huh, I can’t figure out why Eric keeps me around. Maybe the lunch thing was intentional.
January 8, 2008 at 3:54 pm
charlieford
If you guys are interested in puffing this guest post on my blog, you are welcome to:
http://charlieford.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/7/
February 22, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Ginger Mayerson
If y’all have an email on this site, I missed it. I’m doing a magazine of blog essays and wondered if you wanted to toss something in. Here’re the guidelines, http://wapshottpress.com/j-bloglandia/ and you can contact me at editor AT j-blogs DOT info and I’ll send you the official begging email. Best, G.
February 27, 2008 at 7:25 am
bibomedia
Have a nice day !
February 27, 2008 at 8:16 am
Vance Maverick
Is this the page where I should put my link spam?
February 27, 2008 at 8:22 am
ari
Yes, this is the one.
March 25, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Joe Rosen
As the month of March draws to a close and baseball starts another season, do’nt overlook an important 100th anniversary, the release in March 1908 of “Take Me Out To The Ball Game”
March 27, 2008 at 2:00 am
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April 9, 2008 at 2:31 am
The Edge of the American West | stuart noble
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April 10, 2008 at 11:31 am
charlieford
I would personally enjoy and appreciatye if Eric could address Ross Douthat’s review of Rick Perlstein’s NIXONLAND in the most recent ATLANTIC MONTHLY. Douthat argues that the original polarizer was FDR with his rants against “economic royalists.” I see his point but feel that in fact, the two cases–FDR and Nixon–aren’t as analogous as Douthat argues (and he also notes differences, I just wonder if they’re deeper). Anyway, would love to see a comment on this important issue.
April 10, 2008 at 11:36 am
eric
Thanks, charlie. We’re going to have a review of Nixonland soon. I haven’t read Douthat.
April 10, 2008 at 11:51 am
andrew
That Douthat review is better than I thought it would be. But he has a rather expansive definition of polarization; not sure FDR railing against “economic royalists” – who are not the same as a political party – would fall under a more restrictive one. I have not read Nixonland.
April 18, 2008 at 8:17 am
charlieford
Last night I heard Lizabeth Cohen give a keynote, in which, among about 1,724 or 1,725 other points, she took notice of Eric, who she called a pioneer of the new international history, which she also complained had taken us back to writing about white male elites. She wants to see “broadband history” where there’s a simultaneous focus on the micro and macro, global and local, etc.
April 21, 2008 at 11:36 am
jmsdonaldson
I just wanted to say that I truly enjoy reading your EotAW. It’s become a part of my daily routine of procrastination while also allowing me contact with good debate on the historical profession and historic events. Thank you for opening a discourse.
April 21, 2008 at 2:52 pm
ari
Thanks for the kind words. We really appreciate the feedback — so long as it’s positive.
April 22, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Kurt Montandon
So are you guys in Davis? I just glanced through articles on the front-end and didn’t get any hints, but I ask mostly because of the barn picture – that looks a whole lot like the barn across from Nugget.
April 22, 2008 at 2:55 pm
ari
Yes, we’re in Davis. And yes, that’s the barn at the corner of Covell and Pole Line.
April 25, 2008 at 11:15 pm
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May 13, 2008 at 4:48 am
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May 27, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Charlieford
Question on slave emancipation for Ari: I’ve been playing with this whole “the US should’ve avoided the Civil War by offering compensated emancipation to slave-holders” thing. We’ve already discussed Fladeland’s article, I think, which shows that actually there were numerous attempts to get such a discussion started, all shot down by the South. It’s said, “the Brits and French and Dutch and Brazilians all avoided war, why couldn’t Lincoln?” Obviously there’s lots of factors here: economics, revolts, etc. But what about the political angle? In ANY case of compensated emancipation, did slaveholders have roughly similar electoral power to that of Americans? I mean, I realize that doesn’t even capture the reality of it: the Southern states had a political advantage due to the 3/5 compromise, which I’m guessing was another example of American exceptionalism (!). I know in the British case, eg, there were no representatives in Parliament from the West Indies, etc. Was it the case or was it not that in all these other cases, those making the decision didn’t have to pay too much attention to the wishes of slaveholders?
May 27, 2008 at 3:34 pm
ari
Oh, I don’t know enough to say for absolutely certain, but it certainly seems right that, in cases of compensated emancipation outside the United States, the slaveholders typically were overseas, living in the periphery, rather than in the core. Whereas in the United States, because of the 3/5 Compromise, the slaveholders had disproportionate power in the core of the core. Brazil struck me as as a potential counterexample, but in Brazil there was no compensation, so that’s okay.
Warning, what comes after this point is from memory.
First, there was the Law of the Free Womb in 1870 or ‘71. That law freed all the children born into slavery. That quieted calls for immediate emancipation, I think. And around the same time, huge numbers of immigrants began flowing into the country, offering planters a new source of cheap labor. Following that, slavery, which most Brazilians questioned, became discredited. So that, by 1888, when the government abolished slavery, it seems that most people were ready. And, as far as I know, there was no talk of compensation for slaveholders. Which isn’t to say that there weren’t problems. Many former slaves were impressed into the Brazilian Navy, where they were subject to punishments — especially the lash — similar to those under slavery.
Wow, that was an absurdly long and absurdly absurd answer to a pretty straightforward question. The answer should have been: yes, I’m almost certain that you’re right. But I’m sure that there are exceptions, and someone will show up soon to tell us that.
May 27, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Charlieford
Thanks. I’ve been trying to get up to speed on the Brazilian situation. I’ve learned that, as with the US, some states were “free” and some “slave,” but, unlike the US, they were not arrayed into relatively distinct sections, which meant, along with the differing racial demographics and a much larger population of free people of color, retrieving runaways was that much more difficult and expensive. This seems to have had an impact on the degree to which slaveholders were eager to protect the system. I’m not at all clear–read: I’m completley ignorant–about the political dynamics in Brazil.
May 27, 2008 at 5:02 pm
ari
Well, I’m drawing on memory now, but I think that the movement for abolition gathered momentum after the Emperor signaled that he was anti-slavery. Then, as noted above, the Law of the Free Womb pretty much doomed the institution, which meant that it was only a matter of time. The actual moment of abolition, though a big deal in 1888, was only hastening the near-inevitable. As for which states had slavery and which didn’t, I’m out of my depth. I can, though, tell you that the political situation broke along these lines: conservatives, who were relatively tolerant of slavery, and liberals/positivists, who were not.
May 28, 2008 at 10:56 am
Zach Morgan
Hi Charlie,
Ari asked if I wanted to take a crack at this, as my job description says something about being a Brazilian historian who focuses on race and slavery. Although there was no compensation, the writing on the wall allowed many slave owners to regain part or all of their investment. There were actually several important laws that preceded final abolition in May 1888. The end of the slave trade in 1850 (following decades of pressure from the British government) the Law of the Free Womb in 1871 (which technically freed newborns, but in fact required them to work without pay for their owners until reaching a majority at the age of 18 y/o, thus they would not have been actually freed until 1889 at the earliest, after final abolition), another law of 1869 prohibited the separate sale of families (spouses and their minor children), and also in 1871 masters were compelled to accept the self-purchase of a slave at a fixed market price. Finally a law passed in 1885 liberated all slaves once they reached the age of sixty.
One interpretation of these laws (most were passed by conservative cabinets, not liberals) was that they would forestall final abolition, and would get money back into the hands of slave owners (unpaid labor from “free” children was better than having to find wage workers for 18 years). If fact the “right” to purchase freedom for slaves legitimized a massive flow of capital from Afro-Brazilian slaves to (mostly) white slave owners.
By the time the Golden Law freed all slaves without compensation in May 1888, only 750,000 slaves remained in Brazil, of an Afro-Brazilian population larger than 7 million. Slaves represented less than 1/20th of the population.
In fact, it was only when the plantation owners (specifically coffee growers in Sao Paulo, sugar plantation owners had little political sway by the second half of the 19th century) acknowledged that the only was they could attract white European workers to Brazil was by abolishing slavery–after all what white worker was willing to labor alongside slaves?–that abolition finally was granted by the government.
As for your question about the cost of pursuing runaways, the positive participation of slaves in the Paraguayan War 1864-70 (purchased by the government when volunteer rates were insufficient) led to the army refusing to hunt and capture runaway slaves following the war, thus passing on that expense to individual slave owners. One of many economic justifications for the transformation from enslaved to free labor.
May 29, 2008 at 6:09 am
Charlieford
Wow, that’s very succinct and helpful Zach. Thanks very much!
May 31, 2008 at 7:37 am
Vance Maverick
Hey proprietors, we’re now up to four spam trackbacks on my post — your call, but it’s starting to look like a wasteland.
May 31, 2008 at 9:45 am
ari
I’ll take care of it later today. What’s weird is that it’s attracting spam while other posts aren’t. I blame you.
May 31, 2008 at 9:59 am
Vance Maverick
Who wouldn’t want to bask in the Googlejuice of “Zukofsky”?
June 9, 2008 at 10:29 pm
urbino
I have a question completely unrelated to anything (except academe), and this seems to be the place for that sort of thing.
How are the kids learning Latin these days? I missed that in my education, and occasionally think I’ll do something about it. Is software the way to go? Is Wheelock still the shizzle?
June 9, 2008 at 10:39 pm
ari
Mostly I travel through time. But I’m not sure what others do.
June 9, 2008 at 10:44 pm
urbino
It’s very nice of Mr. Peabody to bring you along.
June 9, 2008 at 10:46 pm
ari
He knows of my work in the canine community.
June 9, 2008 at 10:54 pm
urbino
canine
Is that Latin?
June 10, 2008 at 6:29 am
eric
Cala or wolfson would know. I last studied Latin in 1984. Which is a long time ago.
June 10, 2008 at 9:11 am
ari
For me it was 1982, thus my crack out time travel.
June 10, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Cala
Canis is Latin for dog.
Oh, the other question?
urbino, my Latin is pretty weak, but Wheelock is still very popular, such that when I was assigned Moreland & Fleischer for a class, I borrowed the Wheelock and learned more. I think it’s a better, friendly text.
June 10, 2008 at 7:07 pm
The Modesto Kid
Hey do you historians have an opinion on this: when I’m reading a book about some historical event that I’m not familiar with, my initial response is almost always to try and analogize it to something I know more about. For instance I’m reading about the Armenian genocide right now, and trying to figure out if or how similar it is to the experience of Native American peoples. Is this a productive approach or intellectual laziness?
June 10, 2008 at 7:34 pm
urbino
I can’t answer that question, but as an American, I can assure you there is no sense in which the Christianizing of the North American continent to make way for the Millennium is analogous to the genocide of the whozits.
We don’t genocide.
June 10, 2008 at 7:36 pm
urbino
Thanks, Cala. I was hoping for a different answer, to be honest, but I suppose one can’t be too upset that newfangled technology doesn’t immediately turn its attention to dead languages.
June 11, 2008 at 11:56 am
Cala
No spoken component, or at least one that’s not emphasized. Most of the newfangled technico-doohickeys are designed to get someone from zero to speaking competence quickly.
June 24, 2008 at 8:23 am
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June 28, 2008 at 9:02 am
rosewriter
Entertaining blog. I just added it to my blogroll. That Clive Cussler cover was particularly unspeakable.
http://historyman.wordpress.com
June 29, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Vance Maverick
By the way, your tags links (below the titles of posts) lead to URLs like http://wordpress.com/tag/tdih/, that is, the page for all posts on WordPress that have that tag. I have the feeling that what you really want is http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/category/tdih/, the list of all posts on this blog with that tag….
June 29, 2008 at 2:12 pm
eric
Yeah, I don’t think we have the freedom to change that, unfortunately.
July 3, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Chris
I’m a big fan, but only an amateur historian, so I don’t comment much.
However, I do know a little history of a few things, so for the 4th of July I cranked out this little essay about the biggest fireworks in recorded history.
Oh, and some blood and gore, too.
—————————————————–
On July 4th (or possibly 5th) in the year 1054, SN1054, the supernova that created the Crab Nebula, appeared in the skies of Earth. According to Chinese, Japanese, and Arab astronomers, it was bright enough to be visible in daylight for nearly a month.
SN1054 was also recorded at Chaco Canyon in what is now northern New Mexico, and may have contributed to the abandonment of the San Juan River basin by the Anasazi, or Ancestral Puebloan people, one of the most fascinating archaeological and anthropological puzzles in American history.
For some time we have known that the Anasazi starting disappearing from the area en masse around the 12th and 13th century. Until recently there were no explanations for where they went. That has changed in recent years: today we know that a significant number of Anasazi became today’s Puebloan cultures, the Hopi, Zuni, Acoma, etc. Another significant number of Anasazi continued migrating south, leaving traces of their passage on the Mogollon Rim, the Sonoran desert, and possibly as far south as the Sierra Madre in modern Mexico.
We still don’t know *why* the Anasazi abandoned a homeland containing such monumental structures as the pueblos of Chaco Canyon and the cliff houses of Mesa Verde, and a culture with vibrant trade over the whole of western North America.
But we might be able to make some guesses, based on a wealth of recent information made available from institutions like the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, researchers like anthropologist Christy Turner, and writers like Craig Childs and David Roberts.
To paint a brief portrait of Anasazi society: it was highly regimented. There seems to have been a class structure in place, and there was clearly a power relation between the upper classes and the lower classes. Settlements were based on extended family structures and were related geographically to several centers of Anasazi culture. The Anasazi built massive construction projects like the astrologically-aligned pueblos at Chaco and Canyon de Chelly, and 30-foot-wide, perfectly straight roads that stretched for dozens of miles in all directions, climbing canyon walls where necessary. The Anasazi religion was probably some sort of bird cult. Birds of every kind were kept at Chaco, and depictions of birds and of people with birds as heads abound in Anasazi rock art. Astronomy was fairly advanced, with the Anasazi having devoted an entire settlement (Chimney Rock near Durango, CO) to monitoring the 18-year lunar standstill cycle, as well as monitoring solstices and equinoxes and such everywhere.
The conventional wisdom for some time has been that the Anasazi abandoned their home due to stress from an ongoing drought, coupled with an over-reliance on agriculture. While the drought was almost certainly a factor, this theory ignores a pressing counter-argument: that the Anasazi who left mostly settled areas that were hotter and drier than the area they had abandoned.
Recent research paints a much more complex and intriguing picture of the Anasazi abandonment. For one thing, we now know that increasing rates of abandonment were marked by an increasing amount of shockingly brutal violence. There are whole family groups wiped out in literal bloodbaths, but whose neighbors are undisturbed. There is cannibalism and sacrilege, but this occurs only to isolated groups within larger populations.
The period of the Anasazi migration also marks the rise of the Kachina culture to the south. Kachina followers recognize thousands of deities for all occasions, and tend toward consensus relationships rather than power relationships. The appeal of such a movement to some sort of Anasazi underclass should not be discounted. Also of note is that the art and architecture left behind by the Anasazi of the Cedar Mesa area is significantly more expressive and less regimented than that found elsewhere in Anasazi territory. David Roberts in his book “In Search of the Old Ones” suggests that the Cedar Mesa Anasazi may have been somehow opposed to the main Anasazi culture represented by the Chaco pueblo.
Now we have a picture of an advanced culture that probably had a repressed underclass; increasing stress due to drought and food shortage; spiritual competition to the main religion from a new democratic movement to the south; possibly an entrenched institutional opposition group; increasingly brutal acts committed either by some sort of police-like force or else by competing family groups; and significant reliance on astrological knowledge for ritual purpose.
The SN1054 supernova of July 4 1054, completely unpredictable, impossible to ignore, and almost certainly disruptive, could very well have started the chain of events that dismantled one of the most advanced cultures on the continent at the time.
July 8, 2008 at 10:57 pm
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July 14, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Melissa J
Well guys the worlds oldest blogger has died. I’m still getting my head wrapped around the fact that she was born in 1899. I haven’t been able to get to her “regular” blog because the traffic to it has been to heavy. Here’s the BBC short bit.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7505029.stm
August 3, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Vance Maverick
Hands down, the most inappropriate comment spam yet.
August 3, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Slandor the Besmirchinator
Didn’t check out the URL for this one, did ya?
August 3, 2008 at 7:55 pm
ari
Ewww.
August 27, 2008 at 5:14 pm
andrew
Asking for a Nixonland review has become a running joke, but are there plans to blog the upcoming APSA panel? (I saw it mentioned on another blog.)
August 27, 2008 at 7:02 pm
eric
If there’s WiFi, I might liveblog it.
August 27, 2008 at 9:54 pm
andrew
Sweet.
September 8, 2008 at 9:06 pm
JPool
I love the new banner thing. Very mod image.
September 8, 2008 at 9:10 pm
ben
I just noticed it myself. When did it change?
September 8, 2008 at 9:11 pm
eric
It changed a few minutes ago, by accident or server error or something, we don’t know. Sorry, but we’re changing it back; it’s the default image for the theme.
September 8, 2008 at 9:47 pm
JPool
Huh.
Oh well. I like that image too, though not in the same joy of design way.
Is there someplace where you explain your non-default image?
September 8, 2008 at 10:04 pm
ben
It is a western home.
September 8, 2008 at 10:31 pm
eric
It is a barn not far from my house.
September 8, 2008 at 10:36 pm
ben
That’s where eric sends ari when ari’s tardy with the “this day in history” posts.
September 12, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Vance
Scott Eric Kaufman is a doctoral candidate in English
Is not!
September 13, 2008 at 1:52 pm
JPool
a western house
September 14, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Josh Carrollhach
History is bunk. Or is it, If you can’t sleep at night, it a
in’t the coffee. It’s the bunk!
October 15, 2008 at 9:29 am
Charlieford
Does anyone (Eric) have some numbers (adjusted for inflation) whereby we could compare the size of the bank/finance bail-outs under the New Deal and under George W. Bush?
October 25, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Vance
Has anyone noticed our shadow blog? It appears to be generated automatically from the feed of this blog, formatted so it’s illegible except in IE. The author is one “eric”….
October 26, 2008 at 9:49 am
dana
I think that was eric’s attempt to make a mobile version of the blog.
October 26, 2008 at 10:33 am
eric
Charlie, if you allow that RFC had about $2bn to work with at any time, that was about 3.5% of GDP in 1932, while $700bn is about 5% of GDP now. Does that tell you more or less what you want to know?
October 26, 2008 at 10:33 am
eric
Yes, Vance, dana is correct—I was trying to create something that would look good on yer mobile phone. Didn’t work, really.
October 26, 2008 at 11:37 am
Vance
Ah, thus the ‘m’. Makes sense….
October 28, 2008 at 9:57 pm
urbino
I came here to note the fact that Sarah Vowell totally owns Perry Miller, vis-a-vis New England Puritans. (I learned “vis-a-vis” from Charlie Rose. Nice, huh?)
Then I noticed the biographical info above and thought it incumbent upon me to add the following:
- Shouldn’t SEK update his professional status?
- I loved Dana’s book about growing up poor in Ireland.
- Vance has a Ph.D. in computer science? I suddenly feel so inadequate.
October 28, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Vance
Don’t trust everything you read on the Internet, urbino.
October 28, 2008 at 10:19 pm
urbino
That’s what I get for reading a librul blog.
November 7, 2008 at 5:16 pm
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November 10, 2008 at 3:37 am
Lafayette
“History is Philosophy teaching by examples.”
This is tantamount to NewWorld fairy talk.
History is a recounting of human foibles, but we seem to be inept at assimilating its lessons — so history simply repeats itself. Not always exactly as before, but largely in the same manner.
So, I’ll stick with Santayana on history (”Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”) — if you don’t mind.
November 10, 2008 at 7:07 am
eric
This is tantamount to NewWorld fairy talk.
That’s exactly what Herodotus said.
November 10, 2008 at 7:09 am
silbey
History is a recounting of human foibles
Really? No good stuff? How depressing.
November 13, 2008 at 11:15 pm
urbino
With talk of a restructuring of international financial arrangements, or the construction of an international system for regulating international banks, a post about the history of our current international financial institutions — or attempts that went awry — could be helpful.
November 14, 2008 at 3:20 am
andrew
Someone once wrote a book review covering a lot of that ground.
November 14, 2008 at 1:37 pm
ben
Foibles can be good.
I think the list of things this blog is mostly about should be updated to include “all the latest goings-on in SEK’s life”.
November 19, 2008 at 10:15 am
Charlieford
“Does that tell you more or less what you want to know?” It’s better than nuthin’! Thanks!
November 19, 2008 at 10:33 am
SEK
I think the list of things this blog is mostly about should be updated to include “all the latest goings-on in SEK’s academic life”
Fixed that for you—wait, crap, I don’t have the other kind.
November 19, 2008 at 11:00 am
davenoon
Really? Crap. For my tenure file, I submitted all my old Lawyers, Guns and Money posts on Confederate Yankee, The Corner, and Ace of Spades. Are you suggesting this isn’t Real Work?
February 19, 2009 at 5:19 pm
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May 29, 2009 at 8:30 am
JPool
SEK, please stop with the post down-taking. They don’t all have to be winners.
May 30, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Charlieford
Andrew Sullivan just linked to you guys. Is there anywhere else to go?
May 30, 2009 at 6:29 pm
kid bitzer
what, now you want to go somewhere else, just cause sully links here?
he’s not all bad, y’know.
though the post he linked to is neither representative of the blog, nor the most important thing that its writers could tell his readers. which is how it goes, in the random world of the internets.
May 30, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Charlieford
I meant, “is there any place [higher] for the blog to go?”
May 30, 2009 at 6:41 pm
kid bitzer
impossible.
if you meant that, then i must have misconstrued you for the sake of a cheap joke.
which isn’t possible.
May 30, 2009 at 7:57 pm
dana
Is there anywhere else to go?
He’s linked here before, but our Muppets and squid and whatever serious stuff eric does now and then have not ceased!