Dr. Metablog

Dr. Metablog is the nom de blague of Vivian de St. Vrain, the pen name of a resident of the mountain west who writes about language, books, politics, or whatever else comes to mind. Under the name Otto Onions (Oh NIGH uns), Vivian de St. Vrain is the author of “The Big Book of False Etymologies” (Oxford, 1978) and, writing as Amber Feldhammer, is editor of the classic anthology of confessional poetry, “My Underwear” (Virago, 1997).

June 2014

  • Here are some career paths that it's just as well I didn't tread. Opportunities for failure and misery. 1. Taxi driver in a large city (especially a city that's not on a grid, such as Boston or London.  Even the DC-diagonals drive me nuts).  I've earlier written about my incapacitating directional disability, but I neglected to…

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  • I'm late as usual getting in the vegetable garden. After many years of adding manure and compost and leaves, the soil is soft and fluffy. But every year, rocks and more rocks.  When I first started this garden in 1978, I was pulling out boulders; then large stones, then small stones, now one-inch stones and pebbles. Why do I…

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