May 2013
8 posts
19 Wonderful Vintage School Library Posters →
fggtlibrarian:
These imaginative posters from the 1960s encouraged kids to (gasp!) explore the library.
Love ‘em, I just love ‘em all.
WANT.
Behold: A vigilante copy-editor-cum-graffitist!
Would that I have thought of this and had the chutzpah to follow through.
April 2013
13 posts
Every episode of Call the Midwife, I’m all, MAN, those laboring ladies are overdressed.
Le ciel tumultueux: Get To Know Your Tumblarians... →
Between us, my partner and I collect drive-in movie speakers, old microphones, jadeite Fireking plates, Wilendur tablecloths, cheapo hobnail milk glass, and—defacto—Bruder toy trucks. Oh, and 90s women’s magazines from titles that’ve shuttered.
libralthinking:
lecieltumultueux:
Hobbies hobbies hobbies. We all have something that we’re passionate about, and I want to...
“If nothing else, one ought to know how to treat a comma. Abandonment or abuse of...”
– THE COMMA FROM WHICH MY HEART HANGS, by Benjamin Samuel in McSweeney’s
March 2013
24 posts
Just finished stuffing naturally dyed Goldfish crackers into BPA-laden plastic eggs.
You win some, you lose some.
8 New and Necessary Punctuation Marks -... →
Anticipate these, prospective writers!
It’s a damn good thing Hanna Rosin says I can hand my kid the iPad unlimitedly, because I can’t do anything but gobble Eleanor & Park today.
I only give Lean In 4 of 5 stars because there isn’t a board book edition for me to buy as baby gifts for friends with new daughters.
If we can land a man on the moon, surely we can come up with a way for me to bypass incessant radio pledge-week pleas once I give my donation.
http://www.chickenarmor.com →
To file under: I Got a Gift Subscription To Mother Earth News and Cannot Believe the Classifieds.
“Maybe [we can have that story for *the Atlantic*] by the end of the week? 1,200...”
– Nate Thayer on A Day in the Life of a Freelance Journalist
This is why writing for a living is, you know, basically impossible.
Me to Arlo, 22 months: Bubs, where do you live? Which city?
A: Planet Earth.
We need to invent a term for the yummy-jealous feeling when you’re scrolling through your friends’ statuses and you see that folks you know from disparate universes have become friends.
February 2013
17 posts
Given the office-only travesty that is being implemented at Yahoo!, it was refreshing to reread Paul Graham’s maker’s schedule/ manager’s schedule manifesto.
(But parsing these out when you work for yourself is a bigger quandary, methinks. Need: meetings and dig-in sessions.)
“From a giant community farm open to all to a walking school bus, the city of...”
– Six green ideas from Northampton, Boston Globe
REPRESENT.
2013: The Year of the Panda (and Penguin) →
The snake has nothing on my work life this year.
