https://copperbadge.tumblr.com/post/629642225411850240/ruth-bader-ginsburg-was-born-in-brooklyn-in-1933

“What’s your name?” he asked, crouching to get on eye-level with the little girl who had been patiently waiting behind several taller, pushier people.

“Ruth,” she said shyly, offering him her autograph book.

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Since Good Omens is trending hither and yon, this seems a good time to note that Nanny Ashtoreth sales at BPAL raise $$ for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and the Orangutan Foundation UK ( Read more... )

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[Subject line = quote from Peter Mayer's "Blue Boat Home"]


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I have a new post up at Vary the Line, featuring pumpkins and angry riffs prompted by Anne Sexton: http://www.varytheline.org/blog/2017/11/27/that-kind/Read more... )

[The subject's line from "We Shall Not Be Moved." A Mavis Staples recording is playing while I type.]


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For the second night in a row, my evening plans got borked by logistical fail, but there are worse fates than sipping rosé while listening to Mark Knopfler singing "Sailing to Philadelphia" (about Jeremiah Dixon) while writing postcards to get out the votes for Ellen Geisler (Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ( Read more... )

Today's subject line appeared in yesterday's newsletter from Bill Penzey, who posted "an open letter to America's CEOs about our experiences in facing right wing calls for boycotts," which can be read here and has received 47,000 likes to date.


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The subject line is from Carrie Fisher's Twitter bio. I learned of her death when I saw "Remembering Carrie Fisher" on a TV at Liuzza's, and one of the sadder things I saw later in the week was a sheaf of WizardWorld Comic Con flyers curled behind a machine or rack in a French Quarter coffee shop. The con is going on even as I type (January 6 to 8 ( Read more... )