February 2012
27 posts
“When people ask me to explain the South, I usually don’t have an answer beyond...”
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Oxford American editor Marc Smirnoff’s dismantling of Garden & Gun is totally cutting, totally smart and totally overdue. It makes me proud to be a Southerner as well as an OA contributor. (via rachael-maddux)
So glad he called out that awful Allison Glock piece in G&G a few months...
Watchhalfrat:
Recently, in an unfortunate accident, I dropped my favorite mix tape on the ground from several feet in the air. That’s the exactly what it takes to ruin a VHS. When I tried to play the tape back, it was stripped of color and scrambled. I work in a medium that has a set lifespan, and I believe that this self-destruction is central to my pieces, but I was still very upset about losing my...
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Woke up, still dead.
what will make me feel less like dying right now
ellenbee:
is the question i have
Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the... →
January 2012
40 posts
overheard at whole foods:
momish shopper 1: I mean, she was being sooo un-co-op, soooo JERSEY
both momish shoppers: Hahahahahahaha!
momish shopper 2: Yeah, just because you're wearing a hat with a flower on it, it doesn't make you mellow!
both momish shoppers: Hahahahahahaha!
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“Just the word “Persia” in red cursive was a poem that filled a man...”
– From “Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All” by A. Gurg.
NOTE TO SELF i totally love being a librarian most...
SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW
saturday agenda: lift weights ginger tea snow walks drive wendy’s car very very slowly (i’m sorry, seasoned yankee drivers of jamaica plain, i’m sorry) then DOG WALKS in the arboretum and maybe SLEDDING prob also coffee with MOLLY’S.
“The nature of academic and research librarianship changed today. Today, all...”
– So this just happened. (Twitter channel.) i don’t know all the context of what’s happening but this is bizarre (via ellenbee)
To say we were all given pink slips is a little dramatic I think, but we were told in no uncertain terms that “the workforce will be smaller.” In fact I think there was a...
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come like a light in the white mackerel sky
For whom the grim museums will behave like courteous male bower-birds, for whom the agreeable lions lie in wait on the steps of the Public Library, eager to rise and follow through the doors up into the reading rooms, please come flying. We can sit down and weep; we can go shopping, or play at a game of constantly being wrong with a priceless set of vocabularies, or we can bravely deplore,...
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