On his blog, Jim Chen refers to this page as the “lighter side” of law professor blogging, and Heidi Kitrosser over at Concurring Opinions says that it is a “very funny page.”
I’m not sure that I’d give it that much of a ringing endorsement. Okay, the page managed to get me to smile, but I wasn’t “laughing out loud” and I certainly wasn’t “rolling on the floor laughing.” The blog is simply too bland and generic — not enough name dropping. To whoever is writing the page (I can’t really call it a blog because the prof is too self-important to take comments), I’d say get a bit better at mimicry. Read Jeremy Blachman’s Anonymous Lawyer for inspiration.
On the other hand, it is entirely possible that I am criticizing the page because I wish to distance myself from it. It is also possible that the title “Self-Important Law Professor Blog” is redundant.
Posted by Miriam Cherry on November 19, 2006 at 01:46 AM
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[Ed. I’ve deleted three anonymous and speculative ad hominem comments that were inappropriate. Feel free to email me from non-anonymous accounts if you wish followup.]
Posted by: Dan Markel | Nov 20, 2006 4:05:08 PM
You really know how to kill a joke. Is there anything you won’t critique?
Posted by: David Mastio | Nov 19, 2006 8:22:51 PM
It’s really not a terribly funny page. Like you say, it’s a bad version of Anonymous Lawyer.
Posted by: one l | Nov 19, 2006 2:33:09 PM