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Culinary synaesthesia
So, this morning I half-glanced at Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems on the coffee table and for a second I thought-- what if the "Lunch" in the title referred to the poems themselves rather than the circumstances of their composition. I've been thinking about this all day: if various poems, books, etc. were food, what sort of food would they be ( Read more... ) -
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LOT 1974: Stuart family. An Extensive and interesting Collection of Portraits of Royal Personages of the House of Stuart, Statesmen, Naval, and Military Commanders and Clergy; Views of Cities, Towns, Castles, Churches, Ancient Buildings, Arms, curious initial letters, etc. with descriptions in MANUSCRIPT very neatly written, also sundry ( Read more... ) -
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Have I mentioned how much the Victoria's Secret PINK line bothers me?
ETA: Oh gross
ETA: The contact for the U of M licensing program is at Kristen Ablauf, at licensing@umich.edu, if any of you out there are wondering. It was the monokini that put me over the edge.
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Tweets for Today
- 10:45 is in the unheated office, working, debating whether to take the speakers back to halls with her... #
- 11:26 34 pages is reasonable, right? Without footnotes? #
- 14:33 Mmmm, popcorn. #
- 14:33 My own overwrought prose, not mmmmm. #
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Tweets for Today
- 06:10 Saturday morning= espresso and Sotheby's catalogues from 1938. #
- 06:23 my Saturday styles: espresso at the BL and Sotheby's catalogues from 1938. #
- 06:38 is waiting to see if anyone actually shushes the voluble group of preteens taking cell phone pics in front of King George's books. #
- 14:21 saturday night w laptop and a bottle of wine. ( Read more... )
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Tweets for Today
- 05:07 just booked a flight to Prague, and one back from Budapest. Vienna in the middle. Woah. #
- 05:48 @ napattacks Rhinoplasty? #
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Tweets for Today
- 05:00 does not understand the mass impulse to queue up outside the British Library before it opens in the morning. #
- 06:51 has discovered, when looking for a Sotheby's catalogue, that in 1955, Julia Warhola, Andy Warhol's mother, wrote a book called "Holy Cats". #
- 07:40 has greek yogurt and honey to put in it. #
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Tweets for Today
- 18:14 enjoyed her celebratory Baraklava. #
- 04:30 is listening to Lady Sovereign and wishing she had better speakers. #
- 08:08 EVERYTHING IS BANAL YET TERRIBLY COMPLICATED. #
- 11:33 sings a ballad of poor time management. #
- 13:59 jazz with the kidlets then b'day party? The life of the mind is very tiring. #