The Old Spice Guy on what a library is for:

Stop throwing pigeons.

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.

A 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.

The video says it all.

Cred: Sarah Wachter et al.

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

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 from outside the building. I learned a new sound—a more horrible sound than description can picture. It was the thud of a speeding, living body on a stone sidewalk. . . .

A story all should know.

Online archive of photos, documents, and oral histories hosted by Cornell.

Recent months:

Moving on.

Filmmaker and friend Carlos Pedraza surprised me this morning with a flattering spotlight on the Haiti Digital Bibliography:

Many, many thanks to Carlos for the support, the help, and for spreading the word. The HDB has been an odd and, at times, spastic endeavor thus far, but it has been interesting to note the different (and sometimes not) angles at which writers and analysts have gone about addressing the Haiti earthquake(s). From the headlines alone, you can see the vital role modern technology has played in the course of events.

To contribute a link to this ever-evolving list of digital sources about the Haiti earthquake and its aftermath, please drop an URL to haitilinks @ gmail . com. To donate to relief efforts in Haiti, take your pick.

Check out Carlos’s ongoing film projects at Blue Seraph Productions and his cultural analyses and coast-to-coast adventures on The Cosmic Sitcom.

Banner by Carlos Pedraza used with permission. Aerial photo of downtown Port au Prince, Haiti. Source: United Nations Development Program on Flickr. Used under Creative Commons license.

I’m no doctor. I’m not a reporter. I give what I can. I organize stuff.

I threw together a blog the other day. It’s just a (semi-chronological) jumble of headlines right now, but with it I’m compiling links to build a bibliography of digital resources about the Haiti earthquake and its aftermath. Quoting myself,

In an effort to preserve a small slice of what happened and how the world responded in the days after the tragic earthquake in Haiti on January 12, 2010, I’ve set up this site to compile a bibliography of digital resources about the event and its aftermath. Though a comprehensive list of all digital materials on the web would be impossible, I hope this currently random jumble of headlines can be organized into a bibliography that might later prove helpful to those who seek documentation and understanding of what happened in these frantic few days.

It’s not food or water or medical supplies. It’s just what I’ve got.

If you’d like to add some links or help write some citations, send me an email at my usual address or at haitilinks @ gmail . com. The task is big, but it’s not hard. And maybe it might prove helpful to someone some day.

My husband did a great job.