An Effing Guggenheim

[Fort Bragg]

http://engineering.illinois.edu/news/ind...8407840742

WTF - I'm without words. Did they run out of Jews with talent and brains?

[Don Dresden]

More like Crazy Guggenheim, from the old Jackie Gleason show.


Lucky for both Gollum and Edith Prickly, urrr, I mean, Laura Greene that it wasn't a beauty contest.  

Another reco letter from his wife?  Ooooh, it's confidential, so we'll never know the truth.  Isn't that convenient?  

Now we know why she doesn't use his last name.  It's not (just) that she's embarrassed, it's so he can get at least one seemingly impartial reco letter every time he applies for a handout or appointment.  

For a guy who spends all his spare time sniffing other people's laundry, Gollum sure conducts a lot of his own public business in secret.  Isn't it about time somebody checked on just who this guy really is and what he is really up to?  Is there another Julius Rosenberg slinking around the Fermilab?

He also will use his fellowship to cover research expenses associated with a book on diploma mills.

So is this like one of those Obama deals, where the government gives you the money and then claims to own it?  If Gollum sells any books do the Guggenheimers get a share of the profit?  Ha ha, like anybody would buy it.  Or publish it.  Maybe his marionette Queen can get him one of those self-publishing deals.  Gollum can wheel up at the local swap meet and sell copies out of the trunk of his Saturn.

[Dennis Ruhl]

 Ha ha, like anybody would buy it.  Or publish it.    

My thoughts. The beauty is that he gets the money to write it. The reality that no-one will read it or publish it doesn't matter.

I've got a few half written books but life dictates that I don't have the time or money to to bury myself in archives and visit many far afield locations locations to come up with original material. But then no-one would publish or read the stuff either. If I disappear for three months my business disappears forever.

[ham]

I've got a few half written books but life dictates that I don't have the time or money to to bury myself in archives and visit many far afield locations locations to come up with original material. But then no-one would publish or read the stuff either. If I disappear for three months my business disappears forever.

Self-publishing is the way to go. It once had the drawback that it would prove nearly impossible to find such books, but today online self-publishing can get one easily on abebooks, amazon and other storefronts that make it possible for everyone at all times to both locate and buy the book...without huge stocks of unsold materials.
If we examine top-shelf, brass-plate publishing (both academic & mainstream ), we should consider "bargain bins" (used books fairs/half price fairs selling new books) that offer us for a nominal cost (a fraction of the cover price) books that were the "must have" just last season...last year...three years ago.
How does that factor into the books' success chart is one's guess.
What a good book is, and how to attain mainstream status, is one's guess...Harry Potter's and Dune's first edition went bunk, before finding talent scouts who could milk billions out of it...then again, those talent scouts could milk billions out of trivia any half-drunk scribbler may write.
In fact both Harry Potter & Lord of the Rings movies prompted an upsurge in "fantasy" books that are a pale imitation of the already mediocre antecedent...many of these are thick, 500-800-1200 pages books, often made up of several books: do people really read all that filler?
Once reputed top-shelf scholarship, books dissecting the "atrocity" myth in the aftermath of WWI have in recent decades wisely disappeared and seldom reappear printed by fringe advocacy groups.
Academic print is the same: it amounts more to a seal of approval by the establishment certifying that you do not represent a threat to any kind of orthodoxy than otherwise; many academic presses mill super-expensive books ( I saw some costing as much as $250 for mere black&white print) that won't sell in a fashion similar to the worst novelty press.
Again, read ten reviews of the same book across ten different scholarly journals...you will get from raving endorsement to raving criticism...so?

[Little Arminius]

So is this like one of those Obama deals, where the government gives you the money and then claims to own it?  If Gollum sells any books do the Guggenheimers get a share of the profit?  Ha ha, like anybody would buy it.  Or publish it.  Maybe his marionette Queen can get him one of those self-publishing deals.  Gollum can wheel up at the local swap meet and sell copies out of the trunk of his Saturn.

Self-publishing is the way to go. It once had the drawback that it would prove nearly impossible to find such books, but today online self-publishing can get one easily on abebooks, amazon and other storefronts that make it possible for everyone at all times to both locate and buy the book...without huge stocks of unsold materials.

Doesn't John Bear have some experience selling books directly to the public? IIRC, he was trying to sell some copies of old editions of Bear's Guide ... as recently as last fall. I sure that he could help the G-man push some books.

[Don Dresden]

The beauty is that he gets the money to write it.  The reality that no-one will read it or publish it doesn't matter.

Sounds like the plot of a Mel Brooks movie.  And now its...

♫ Springtime for Gollum and Klempner too
Winter for Dixie and Prade

Janko can no longer be verbose,
Look out, here comes Chip to lick your toes ♫

[Geoff Vankirk]

The beauty is that he gets the money to write it.  The reality that no-one will read it or publish it doesn't matter.

Sounds like the plot of a Mel Brooks movie.  And now its...

♫ Springtime for Gollum and Klempner too
Winter for Dixie and Prade

Janko can no longer be verbose,
Look out, here comes Chip to lick your toes ♫

If it's a Mel Brooks movie, outrageous and way, way over the top, shouldn't the PhD turned trucker Steve Levicoff have a major role?

[Armando Ramos]

If it's a Mel Brooks movie, outrageous and way, way over the top, shouldn't the PhD turned trucker Steve Levicoff have a major role?

Roger DeBris or Carmen Ghia?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78j8-yIJQ5o

[Albert Hidel]

Another reco letter from his wife?  Ooooh, it's confidential, so we'll never know the truth.  Isn't that convenient?  

I bet the $600 he spent on his buddy Foster's congressional campaign didn't go to waste either.

[Little Arminius]

It is interesting to note that Gus Sainz has not offered his congratulations to the G-man. There has always been some tension and yes, some jealousy, on the part of Gus toward George. After all, Gollin the University of Illinois professor with the UI administrator spouse has always had that steady money coming in while Gus has been struggling of late.

Throw in Gollin's academic achievements, the ease with which he inserted himself into the DL world and his rise to the top, metaphorically speaking, One can sympathise with Gus' resentment. This award just rubs his nose in it.