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	My morning missive from Google included a link to an entry compiling funny quotes, including several of my own: Quotes from Professor Charlie Bertsch "It's like the Macy's parade, only with Hitler." "That's part of college. Making new friends who are just as pretentious and arrogant as you are. Otherwise you stay behind and work at Wal-Mart, keeping it real." "When I'm speaking about Britney Spears, I'm really teaching you about life." The best part is that they are 100% accurate, which is a rarity, as anyone who has been quoted in the newspaper can tell you. The Hitler quip, in case you were wondering, refers to a scene in Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of Will, during which the dark-haired dictator has numerous arm-rising events as he is driven through Nürnberg. Tags: autobiography, humor, teaching Current Location: 85704

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	From: pewter_surfer	Date: March 21st, 2007 04:54 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

I don't know if you remember this one (I can't remember word for word, just that I remember laughing a lot to myself), but it was a response you gave to a student when I was briefly in your lit and film class a few years ago:

Student: "Is this [film director] important? Like, would he appear on a test?"
You: "It's like if Phil Collins died. That's how important he is."

Me (thinking to myself about you): "Is this guy for real? He's so sarcastic!"

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	From: cbertsch	Date: March 21st, 2007 09:22 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

Now that I don't remember. But that whole class was such a rough experience that I've repressed most of what happened.

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	From: pewter_surfer	Date: March 21st, 2007 09:40 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

Fair enough. I just remember thinking you were funny (and you still are) back in the day. And you're right - the overall aura of the class was akin to pulling teeth.

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	From: cbertsch	Date: March 27th, 2007 05:55 am (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

I still haven't recovered, to be honest. That was my first experience being hated by a large number of people in that context.

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	From: schencka	Date: March 21st, 2007 04:58 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

Wonderful, all.

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	From: cbertsch	Date: March 21st, 2007 09:28 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

I remember tripping out when you were in my class observing because I feared that I would say something a little too off and have it recorded for posterity. But it was nice to have that log nonetheless.

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	From: amackey84	Date: March 22nd, 2007 06:50 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

What about, "I will now use Winnie the Pooh characters to illustrate the difference between synecdoche and metonymy." That one was one of my favorites.

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	From: katieengl	Date: March 22nd, 2007 08:44 pm (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

hahah i remember that! in fact its the only way i know the difference between synechdoche and metonymy.

I also love that in the original post's quotes you can hear the pauses. "working at walmart...(slightly underbreath) keeping it real..."

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	From: cbertsch	Date: March 27th, 2007 05:56 am (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

::smiling::

Nice to see you posting again. (And apologies for this belated reply.)

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	From: cbertsch	Date: March 27th, 2007 05:56 am (UTC)		(LINK TO SPECIFIC ENTRY)

Sorry for the delayed reply. . .

I'm glad you remembered that. It's how I keep things straight!

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PROFILE


User: cbertsch Name: Charlie Bertsch

CALENDAR

LINKS (INCLUDES NON-LJ BLOGS)

FEATURED LINK

Elliott Berry

PHOTOGRAPHS

Picture of the Moment

PUBLICATIONS

Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life

Printculture

io9 (a sci-fi blog)

Other magazine

Morphizm

McSweeney's

Left Business Observer

The Believer

DEGREES OF SEPARATION

Steven Rubio's Online Life

Joel Schalit

Super Bon! (Jonathan Sterne)

Annalee Newitz's column

Mark Sussman

Justin St. Germain

I Cite (Jodi Dean)

Michael Bérubé

Eensy Weensy (Ann Powers)

Jill from h2so4

Jessica Suarez

Mike Kolakoski

Fredoluv

K-Punk

Ted Friedman

Scott McLemee

Catfish Vegas

MUSIC

Zoilus

Simon Reynolds

Boblog

Flaskaland

RockCritics.com

LITERARY

Ron Silliman

ACADEMIC

Intellectual Affairs (Scott McLemee's Column)

The Valve

Crooked Timber

POLITICAL

CNN Political Ticker

Blog Left

Nathan Newman

GENERAL ENTERTAINMENT

Tim Goodman (SF Gate)

Culture Blog (SF Gate)

ABOUT DE FILE

You're looking at content from my Live Journal, which I have been keeping since 2003. I consider it a personal blog, though it lacks stream-of-consciousness revelations that typify that genre.

That said, if you manage to discern the confessional mode within entries that are superficially tight-lipped, I will reward you handsomely. Or at least pretend to do so.

In addition to reflections, however mediated, on my daily activities, De File features periodic excavations of material from my "files," a revelation sure to disturb anyone who has seen my garage. It's an experiment in integrating past and present, perhaps with a little redemption along the way.

Politics is always on my mind, but rarely explicit here. I’m working on a theory about what personal writing like this does to literary identification and why some people resist its pull so powerfully. But my goal is to make that theory dissolve in my practice, a density in liquid.

You'll note that I have links to blogs not on LiveJournal directly above, as well as assorted websites of note. The blogs I read regularly on LiveJournal itself fall under "FRIENDS" at the top, for those of you unfamiliar with LJ’s workings.

You can write me. I'm "cbertsch" before the circle-a and "comcast.net" after it.