This week is National Library Week in the U.S. If you are a fan of libraries, please consider celebrating by visiting your favourite local library and/or telling a librarian you think they're awesome. :)

For today, a library poem commissioned by the National Library of Wales in honour of their [centennial celebrations] in 2007. In Welsh and ( Read more... )

[The Tattúínárdœla Saga], being a retelling of Star Wars, Icelandic epic saga style. In Old Norse, even!!

No, I can't read it, either. But it is still awesome. And there will be English summaries someday. For now, check out the faux-academic [introduction].

(Thanks to
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( words you don't expect when translating info about a children's program )

Alas, now my stupid cough has started up (generally late to the party and always the last to leave) and so there is still no podfic from me for the next while. But there are other awesome things afoot in the world of podfic!

First, I am now officially an archivist at [audiofic], I can create entries and everything ( Read more... )

I AM GOING TO GERMANY THIS SUMMER!!!

I will be working/researching for three weeks at the Internationale Jugendbibliothek/International Youth Library in Munich, where by "working/researching" I mean "FROLICKING AMONG CHILDREN'S BOOKS AND THOSE WHO LOVE THEM ( Read more... )

So, propinquitine is writing a fannish paper for law school and asked for my perspective on fannish differences (or not) of opinion. I started composing a reply, but I got totally sidetracked and ended up writing a ginormous essay on the history of my own fannish interactions and how much I love Fandom. And thus (somewhat edited and slightly expanded from the ( Read more... )

As promised, here's the linkage for lavvyan's birthday podfic:

// (Almost) Rapunzel by lavvyan (SGA; J/R)

And then, omg, I got the nicest comment ever on my Merlin podfic of [  Whims ] and it has totally made my day. ( no really, it made me tear up )

Today, at long last, was a day with no Headache! \o/ I'm still not entirely back to my perky self, but no Headache is a vast improvement. Here's hoping next month is better. (Because I went to the doctor on Monday and she agreed with my suspicion that it's a period-related migraine. Ick. At least now I have a battle plan for next month. Oh, ( Read more... )

Here is another random bit of geography from my archival curiosity. ( Today: Indonesia! )

Today's poems are by Wislawa Szymborska, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996. My dad sent me View With A Grain of Sand last year, and I fell in love. She has an amazing sense of imagery. (Of course, there's the issue of translation and am I really reading Szymborska's poetry or just the translators' interpretation of it, but I already ( Read more... )