Instead of just putting my CV on the Web like everyone else, I kind of think I would like someone to make a fan site for me, possibly something like the one created for Hasselhoff. Oh, yeah! Check out my experiments with facial hair in the 90s. Instead of building temples to ourselves — which is something best left to academic administrators — maybe professors should all have “Web shrines” developed and maintained in our honor. —“Thomas H. Benton”A God in Colchester (Chronicle)

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  • I *so* wish "Thomas H. Benton" would write a novel. I love his columns.

    Of course, maybe he *has* written a novel, under another name. His own, perhaps. :-)

  • This essay is an hilarious and at times sad commentary on worker alienation and the outrageous dreams of the professorial ego.

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