Tuesday, August 03, 2004
(5:58 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Coinage Claim
I, Adam Kotsko, hereby officially claim the term "Hardto-Negrian" as my own personal coinage. (The link is to Google search results that verify that I am the only person ever to have used this term to date, at least on the Internet. If anyone has access to a library database that would disprove my assertion, I'd love to [not] hear about it.)Normally I wouldn't go to such extraordinary lengths, but I've been a little bit paranoid ever since I coined the term "hermeneutic of suspicion" and everyone started stealing it from me without proper attribution.
UPDATE:
I've been thinking about writing a post about how I feel completely ignorant and inadequate in everything that is ostensibly the focus of my academic work, but why should I when Bitch, Ph.D., has already done so? (I have a friend who keeps trying to get me to stop talking negatively about myself; she hasn't succeeded quite yet.)
Also, if anyone has been able to pick up my unconscious passion in life from my blog posts (or any other source), could you let me know? I've produced enough material here, with so little editing, that it should be relatively simple to tell everything about me at this point, but I don't really have the time to go over all my posts again. Someone who's been reading for a while might have some kind of perspective on this, though.
UPDATE:
If you only make one blog comment this year, make it on Anthony's "statement of purpose" post. It is already a Weblog record-holder, having beaten out Monica's original survey and "There is nothing outside the blog," the former first and second place posts, respectively. Aside from those two, there don't really seem to be many close competitors -- probably Adam Robinson's post on literary criticism and Robb's post on "the first female rock star" would be third and fourth place. I suppose there's a simple solution to this, but I'm scared of Google. Maybe tomorrow if I can't think of anything to post, I'll just go through and add links to all four of the posts I mention here.
(Ah, Robb -- where art thou, my love? I thought we had something.)
