What? I mean ... what???

Why did it take me so long to re-read the Tales of the City series ( Read more... )

Emily Dickinson, via The Dialectizer.

Because I could not put the mockers on for Deaff,
He kindly 'ad the mockers put on for me;
The bleedin' carriage 'eld but just ourselves And Immortality.

We slowly drove, he knew no 'aste,
And I 'ad put oray Me labor, and me leisure too, For 'is civility.

We passed the chuffin' school where children ( Read more... )

Just got home from a Hi-Larious job interview. I met with a head archivist and a records manager, and was pleased to find that the records manager was an incredibly handsome, well-dressed gay man. Like, Queer Eye For The Straight Records Manager Guy handsome and well-dressed. Part way through the interview, I noticed his watch was a gigantic ( Read more... )

Woo! The American Antiquarian Society put my collection summary and inventory up on the website! When I started, the collection was a couple hundred photographs stuck in a box. I did a crapball of research, arranged the photos by tribe, then found personal names for %98 of the subjects. Then I wrote the longest inventory ever and scanned everything ( Read more... )

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Thriller meets Bollywood. Thriller. Meets. Bollywood. 

At the insistence of Lindsey The Roommate, I had a very productive day. Spring cleaning has reached Phase Four in the living room, Phase Five being A Living Space That Is Hygienic And Even Somewhat Decorated To The Point That I Can Send My Mother A Picture Of It To Prove That I Don't Live In Squalor. Every time I visit my parents, they try to give ( Read more... )

There IS life after Don Piano.

A YouTube search for "singing cat" yields this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQwFcdJStyU

You will DIE at 01:02. Absolutely DIE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrmxZpZWd6k

While looking up the lyrics to "Dixie" (?!) I came across the piece of art that will replace my headboard: http://www.collectiblestoday.com/ct/product/prdid-102382001.jsp#