Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Best of From the Floor: Part 1
Much of what gets posted here is due to serendipity. That was certainly the case last October when I happened to run across a review of Roger Kimball’s most recent book and Jacques Derrida’s obituary on the same day.
Seeing these items in quick succession brought me back to my graduate school days when I rubbed shoulders with both these men. This piece arose from my momentary bout of nostalgia.
The post still drives a fair amount of search engine traffic to the site. Every few days there is someone, somewhere in the world, looking to Google to provide instructions on how to use a waiter's corkscrew. This piece, like much of what else gets posted here, is a tease that way--promising something useful but never actually delivering as it peters off into self-absorbed musings. But, hey, that's what blogs are all about, right?
If a blogger and arm-chair critic could have an artist’s statement, this would be mine.
Why We’re Called “From the Floor”
Seeing these items in quick succession brought me back to my graduate school days when I rubbed shoulders with both these men. This piece arose from my momentary bout of nostalgia.
The post still drives a fair amount of search engine traffic to the site. Every few days there is someone, somewhere in the world, looking to Google to provide instructions on how to use a waiter's corkscrew. This piece, like much of what else gets posted here, is a tease that way--promising something useful but never actually delivering as it peters off into self-absorbed musings. But, hey, that's what blogs are all about, right?
If a blogger and arm-chair critic could have an artist’s statement, this would be mine.
Why We’re Called “From the Floor”
