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).

May 2019

  • Another day, another amnesia movie. This one, Shadow on the Wall, is  different only because the amnesiac is a child.  The poor dear has witnessed a murder, and has been traumatized, which we know because her wooden perkiness transforms into wooden woodenness. In the vulgar reductive Freudianism to which the film pays full credence, the…

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  • I dreamed I was on the phone with my father (who has been dead these 35 years).  Although his voice was very faint, it was distinctly him. He said, "Don't vote for Beto." End of conversation, end of dream.  

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