Today I found out that the book of essays on Shakespeare’s sonnets to which I contributed last year has been reviewed in September’s issue of Choice, and my chapter was named as one of the "highlights." W00t! Someone read it and liked it! I haven’t been writing as much as I’d like to lately. Thinking […]
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1. San Diego mayor Jerry Sanders, explaining why he’s changed his mind and decided to support gay marriage. Mayor Sanders, if you happen to read this, thank you for restoring a sizeable chunk of my faith in humanity. (Also spotted at Alison Bechdel’s blog and Bitch Ph.D.) 2. Amazing altered-book art by Brian Dettmer. He […]
Apologies for my lack of recent bloggage. I’ve been busy with various projects, trying to get a head start on the reading for my Drexel classes, and sniffling from the pollen in the air. Ah, fall. And thanks to all of the above, my mind’s completely scattered. So here are a few shards. On the […]
I’m going to be creating a couple of sites for the web-design class I’m taking this fall. As far as I can tell from looking at previous students’ work, the content can be just about anything. Which leaves me with far too many ideas for what to do for my final project site. Here’s what I’ve thought of […]
This is such an interesting idea: a story told in stencils on the streets of San Francisco, with the locations of the stencils (an apartment building, a street with hills behind it, a burrito joint) acting as a kind of illustration or setting for the story. And it’s a hypertextual "Choose Your Own Adventure" type […]
Over at LibraryThing, someone suggested cataloging the libraries of famous people, and the project quickly snowballed into a collective effort to catalog Thomas Jefferson’s book collection. Anyone on LT can join in and claim a section of the catalog. I’m doing Pastorals, Odes, and Elegies, and have been deep in 18th-century editions of Theocritus and […]
And while I’m on the subject of supernatural stuff: The Library of the Society of Antiquaries of London is hiring. I didn’t even know there still was a Society of Antiquaries. I don’t have the archaeological and historical background to apply, but the thought of cataloging for the Society of Antiquaries is deliciously M.R. Jamesian […]
So I was flipping through The Encyclopedia of Fantasy in preparation for teaching an upcoming instruction session (for a class with fantasy fiction on the syllabus), and came across an entry on "Opera." A really long entry, consisting of a 20-page-long list of operas "based on myths, legends, folktales and so on or that contain […]
It’s college move-in season everywhere, and anyone who’s spent any time in academia is probably thinking of this time of the year, not January, as the real new year. The freshmen arrived last week at Swarthmore, and over the last few days we ushered all of them through the library in slightly dazed groups. My […]
Our cataloging class had its final meeting on Tuesday night. It was a good class; I still don’t think I’d want to be a cataloger full time, but I enjoyed learning how to do it. Next term I’m taking a course on content representation, which deals with some of the same intellectual territory. I’ve also […]