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).

DR. METABLOG’S
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Cornell English Then and Now — 1
Basketball in My LIfe
Anemoia
Our Visit to Beardstown, Illinois
Douglas Bush’s Milton Course
My Life on “The Hill,” 1969-2009
My Life in Objects — XIV (Puppy)
“Bisson Conspectuities”
Jot and Tittle
Year of the Rooster
Side Effects
Zeus: the Apology
What I Said at Our “Event”
World War II Memories
My Teachers: James Hutton (1902-1980)
Another Gosse-Pearlman Xmas
“Barefoot to Palestine”
Baseball, 1955 and 2012
De Sternuente, or, Of Sneezing
Reposted: Antimylarmonofilamentarianism
Advice for Writers
Upper West Side Then and Now
Jane Austen Nude
Why I Hate Machines
Seventy-two Virgins
Frost
The P. S. 217 “Assembly”
Prayer Science
What We Read in the Fifties: The Return of the Native
“Crosspatch, draw the latch” and Industrial Capitalism

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My Life on “The Hill,” 1969-2009

Aug 26, 2020

Autobiography, Dr. Metablog’s Greatest Hits

Boulder, University Hill

We settled on University Hill by lucky accident. Shortly after accepting a teaching position, I received a letter from my then-chairman Harold Kelling, urging me to write immediately to Professor J. D. A. Ogilvy, who had a house to rent near the University. I jumped to follow instructions and in August, 1969, the four of…
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