tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post1728532771257180466..comments2023-11-22T09:11:01.567+00:00Comments on George Szirtes: Totleigh 1: a shout for Mehrotra.George Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-46997933490551614842009-05-30T16:40:29.787+01:002009-05-30T16:40:29.787+01:00This is good good news. I just don't understand w...This is good good news. I just don't understand why it didn't go to Arvind by default. Maybe someone can explain it to me. He got votes and the high number of spoiled ballots spoke eloquently.<br /><br />Obama's not taking calls, Linda :); you have to CrackBerry him, don'tcha know? LOL.<br /><br />George, I join you in your shout for Mehrotra. I'm going to say so publicly in <I>The Globe and Mail</I> Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday (depending upon when I can escape the hospital . . . er, no, it's overnighting for transfusions and injections, not brain-dedications).<br /><br />I did start the campaign for Mehrotra in Canada; but, Linda will tell you what happens (or doesn't happen) here. She got smart; she got out (sadly for us, happily for her). Still, I managed a comment that said most of what I would have said in the Blog where I apparently don't cover Poetry even though I do.<br /><br />That's Canadian logic for you :).<br /><br />Grrrr . . . E-gawds, though, the levels of PCeity have sunk so low, they're no longer beneath my contempt.<br /><br />p.s. This .sigfile-linked page takes forever to load; we just changed our entire system and platform; wait for the comments on the link to <I>The Globe and Mail</I>'s BookBlog, "In Other Words," pls/tnx, it's worth a look and will help Arvind (I hope, I pray)<br />p.p.s. I am <I>so</I> tired of being called a misogynist because I despise the lack of ethics and the further overslight to Mehrotra; now, I'm being called the C word — not to mention the virii and email shit — because I'm on my own over here with only Rus Bowden in the States lobbying for Arvind (and, we're doing a good job of keeping it front-and-centred on Books, Inq.); both Rus and I believe Mehrotra earned the position and should be assuming it, not re-running in another election for it; can't one of you find a good pro-bono legalist over there to go beat somebody up or knock a few heads together? J/kiddin' . . .<br />-- <br />http://preview.tinyurl.com/turfbabyturfJudith Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15630731762216185341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-13179233851190576792009-05-27T23:44:00.394+01:002009-05-27T23:44:00.394+01:00Oxford should dig up Dylan Thomas. I could tell th...Oxford should dig up Dylan Thomas. I could tell them where he is.Gwil Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-62414930651050263302009-05-27T09:33:47.791+01:002009-05-27T09:33:47.791+01:00I entirely agree. They were different (and for all...I entirely agree. They were different (and for all the obvious disadvantages) in some ways more interesting times. The advances may have been made very occasionally (it wasn't exactly rife!) but we were so sure in our own feminity and unashamed feminism that we had little trouble in repelling them - if we wanted to. But maybe Edinburgh was full of peculiarly confident young women back then!Catherine Czerkawskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14554969254207924049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-69481212864905911072009-05-27T09:32:27.777+01:002009-05-27T09:32:27.777+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Catherine Czerkawskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14554969254207924049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-47195639489368282682009-05-26T17:20:30.896+01:002009-05-26T17:20:30.896+01:00Perhaps we can email Obama and ask for his advice ...Perhaps we can email Obama and ask for his advice on how to get elected.Linda Granthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09126115924247248057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-6713078812823213762009-05-26T17:05:23.534+01:002009-05-26T17:05:23.534+01:00Linda: Szirtes for prof, absolutely! George, you'd...Linda: Szirtes for prof, absolutely! George, you'd be brilliant, even if you don't invite awestruck young people round for tea and crumpets like Auden used to.Nicole Snoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-43176963035375690702009-05-26T15:31:49.210+01:002009-05-26T15:31:49.210+01:00You seem to have the popular vote George, goo awn,...You seem to have the popular vote George, goo awn, i dare yer.<br /><br />You seem the only commentator who has responded in a non hysterical manner and not blown the hoo ha up to an earth ceasing to spin event.Coirí Filíochtahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15137576329670368944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-28658421662879872072009-05-26T14:57:21.640+01:002009-05-26T14:57:21.640+01:00I am starting a campaign to persuade George to sta...I am starting a campaign to persuade George to stand and some Oxford bod to nominate him. Join up below!Linda Granthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09126115924247248057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-12633879103838700432009-05-26T10:46:19.296+01:002009-05-26T10:46:19.296+01:00Have you seen who's been nominated on the Guardian...Have you seen who's been nominated on the Guardian blog?<br /><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/may/26/ruth-padel-oxford-professor-of-poetry<br /><br />Scroll down a bit...Jeremy Millarhttp://www.jeremymillar.orgnoreply@blogger.com