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Academic, My Dear Watson!
Oct. 10th, 2011 07:28 pmSurprisingly, this post has nothing to do with Mr. Sherlock Holmes. Can't imagine writing anything about HIM....
I did make an unexpected decision to write something else, though- of a kind I've never written before.
Remember Teh Book? Not MSN3K, but the tribute book to fellow Mets blogger Dana Brand which a group of committed fans (and a probably-should-be-committed for how overloaded she is![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
firynze) wrote, designed, edited and published barely six weeks after Dana's untimely death to pass out at his Mets memorial in mid-July.
One of the oft-mentioned tidbits in that collection was the fact that Dana, a professor at Long Island's Hofstra University, had been organizing a full-blown academic conference for next April, to recognize the Mets' 50th anniversary as a team and a cultural institution. One of the pieces we used even quoted the formal proposal for the event:
( Yeah, this: )
I met one of Dana's fellow faculty members at the Mets game following the memorial, and he assured me that the con was on- with the backing of the University's president, no less, who'd announced that it would be dedicated to Dana's memory. Since that moment (indeed, even before we lost Dana when I first heard him speaking of it), I've wanted to contribute to the record of the conference, but didn't have my niche yet.
Today, though? I do. It's a little obscure, but hey, there are gonna be graduate students there. Can't get too obscure, canya?
Um....
( The abstract of the abstract, or, Howie Rose is a big fat liar: )
Wow. That's 459 words right there. And so, I ask you, and you, and especially you, who have knowledge of such things- and anyone else who does- two things:
(1) Does it sound interesting enough to make the cut for this kind of academia?
and
(2) Is there a more formal format I should plan on submitting it in? In other words, is this bloggy-styly summary the kind of thing up with which academics will not put?
I've got a little under two months, so don't wait too long. Met fans, especially, should be eager to comment, since there isn't any more baseball worth watching;)
I did make an unexpected decision to write something else, though- of a kind I've never written before.
Remember Teh Book? Not MSN3K, but the tribute book to fellow Mets blogger Dana Brand which a group of committed fans (and a probably-should-be-committed for how overloaded she is
firynze) wrote, designed, edited and published barely six weeks after Dana's untimely death to pass out at his Mets memorial in mid-July.One of the oft-mentioned tidbits in that collection was the fact that Dana, a professor at Long Island's Hofstra University, had been organizing a full-blown academic conference for next April, to recognize the Mets' 50th anniversary as a team and a cultural institution. One of the pieces we used even quoted the formal proposal for the event:
( Yeah, this: )
I met one of Dana's fellow faculty members at the Mets game following the memorial, and he assured me that the con was on- with the backing of the University's president, no less, who'd announced that it would be dedicated to Dana's memory. Since that moment (indeed, even before we lost Dana when I first heard him speaking of it), I've wanted to contribute to the record of the conference, but didn't have my niche yet.
Today, though? I do. It's a little obscure, but hey, there are gonna be graduate students there. Can't get too obscure, canya?
Um....
( The abstract of the abstract, or, Howie Rose is a big fat liar: )
Wow. That's 459 words right there. And so, I ask you, and you, and especially you, who have knowledge of such things- and anyone else who does- two things:
(1) Does it sound interesting enough to make the cut for this kind of academia?
and
(2) Is there a more formal format I should plan on submitting it in? In other words, is this bloggy-styly summary the kind of thing up with which academics will not put?
I've got a little under two months, so don't wait too long. Met fans, especially, should be eager to comment, since there isn't any more baseball worth watching;)