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 Greatest Hits

  • The Love Song of Gov. Mark Sanford (in his own 'eamailed' [sic] words).
  • Number 44 and Number 42
  • Advice for Writers
  • Upper West Side Then and Now
  • Antimylarmonofilamentarianism
  • Jane Austen Nude
  • Why I Hate Machines
  • Boustrophedonia
  • My New Career
  • Seventy-two Virgins

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Recent Posts

  • Dinner Conversation
  • English Teachers Are Such Jerks
  • A Further Note on Nineteenth-Century Horsedrawn Vehicles
  • Oh No! What's Happening to Me?
  • Sons of Ham, Sons of Japheth
  • Help, I Need Somebody Not Just Anybody
  • ADH2*2 in My Life
  • Damn Yankees
  • STAAS
  • Updike's Gamble
  • A Visit to a New Health-care Provider
  • Another Baseball Dream
  • As Time Goes By ( in Baseball Years)
  • Why I Love Health Insurance Companies, Reason # 453
  • Yellow Face
  • On Noise
  • Some Mid-Career Baseball Deaths
  • Plastic Flowers
  • Updike -- Part IV
  • Another P.S. 217 Picture

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Categories

  • Autobiography
  • Books
  • Brooklyn in the 1950s
  • Current Affairs
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  • Dr. Metablog's Greatest Hits
  • Fiction
  • Film
  • History
  • Language
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Religion
  • Replacement Children
  • Science
  • Shakespeare
  • Sports
  • Travel
  • Wisdom
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