RE: I Saw it on Craig’s List

The job of a lifetime is with Howard Bloom, author of The Lucifer Principle. I thought it was for Harold Bloom, emminent intellectual, professor at Yale University, author of such works of literary criticism as The Anxiety of Influence, Kaballah and Criticism, Poetry and Repression, Shakespeare and the Invention of the Human, The Book of J, and many more.

A friend of mine studied with Bloom at Yale University and has great Harold Bloom stories.

That’s why I blogged about it. I am absolutely FASCINATED by Harold Bloom. Truth it, I don’t really know who HOWARD Bloom is. Sometimes I misread things. That was an easy one to get wrong. I was just so excited about HAROLD BLOOM putting an ad on Craig’s List. The pay sucked but it was the intellectual adventure of a lifetime.

Okay, okay. Howard Bloom has his own website and wrote a book called: Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century. Blurbs on the site include:

“Howard Bloom may just be the new Stephen Hawking, only he’s not interested in science alone; he’s interested in the soul.” Aaron Hicklin–Gear

“A soaring song of songs about the amorous origins of the world, and its almost medieval urge to copulate.” –Wired Magazine

“I have met God, and he lives in Brooklyn. …Howard Bloom is next in a lineage of seminal thinkers that includes Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Freud, and Buckminster Fuller…he is going to change the way we see ourselves and everything around us.” Richard Metzger, creative director, The Disinformation Company, host of Channel4 TV Britain’s Disinfo Nation

“For those who worry that our ingenuity has upset nature’s equilibrium, Bloom has a message that is both reassuring and sobering. ‘We are nature incarnate,’ he writes. ‘We are tools of her probings and if, indeed, we suffer and we fail, from our lessons she will learn which way in the future not to turn.’–The New Yorker

Well, he sounds interesting too (and egotistical, very) and he lives in Park Slope. Who knew? And he’s got $350 to pay you for the big intellectual adventure of working for him.

I think I’m going to give him a call. Really. I need the dough. Besides, it sounds…dare I say it? Interesting.