The Old Spice Guy on what a library is for:

Stop throwing pigeons.

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For the past couple of months, Fred “spitballarmy” O. (whom you may remember from the “Under the Tree” collaboration last winter) has been posting strange three-image combinations at unpredictable intervals on Twitter. Today those poetic triads (via Fred) have launched a Twitter #hashtag and Web site called Cryptich (that’s cryptic mixed with triptych, a word for which I may or may not be responsible).

I love this. Such a fun way to play with words and images—and Fred chose the perfect art for the header of the site to boot. My opening entry:

gerbera daisies / blue glass vase / uncashed check #cryptich

Come play on Twitter.

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live concert review I wrote last month is now available on PopMatters:

Hawkins imagined Red Light Fever as sounding like me having sex with my record collection, but delivered from start to finish with the same thrusts at the same speed with the same pressure, the music only humps the listener into numbness.

Photo credit (that sadly fell off the article): Lara Clifford. More of Lara’s photos can be found on her flickr gallery.

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The video says it all.

Cred: Sarah Wachter et al.

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In the fall This summer I begin a Master of Library and Information Science program, concentrating on digital libraries and weaving in special collections as I can. After which I will be officially authorized to organize the crap out of stuff.

But first, paperwork.

Edited a week later because I do not want to have to wait until fall to get started.

*Quote by Laura.

Photo: cohdra from morguefile.com

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Ninety-nine years ago today: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

March 25, 2010

New York, March 25, 1911. An eyewitness report as relayed by telephone, disseminated by telegraph, and archived by internet:
I was walking through Washington Square when a puff of smoke issuing from the factory building caught my eye. I reached the building before the alarm was turned in. I saw every feature of the tragedy visible [...]

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Photos and obvious metaphors

March 19, 2010

Recent months:

Moving on.

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