When April with its sweet showers has pierced the drought of March to the root, and bathed every vein of earth with that liquid by whose powers the flowers are engendered; when the zephyr, too, with its dulcet breath, has breathed life into the tender new shoots in every copse and on every heath, and […]
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Rachel Singer Gordon at The Liminal Librarian has a meme for library bloggers: Post five non-library blogs that you read. I’ll bite! Here are mine: Apartment Therapy: I visit AT at intervals when I’m feeling the need for home-decoration wish-fulfillment, voyeuristic gawking at other people’s apartments, or advice on finding furniture. Or when I just […]
New York was lovely, even though my hostess and I had to fight our way through a stinging, heavy mixture of snow and sleet to get to the opera on Friday night. But we had a great time at The Pirates of Penzance, and then there was all manner of cooking and roaming around SoHo […]
The last assignment has been turned in (at last), the bag is more or less packed, the opera glasses have been stashed, the iPod has been loaded up with P.G. Wodehouse audiobooks for the bus trip, and I’m off to New York for a whirlwind weekend trip. There’s Gilbert and Sullivan in my immediate future. […]
For every school assignment (and probably every other task, really), there’s a point where you decide that it’s good enough as it is, and you could continue to tinker with it, but that would probably drive you crazy without really making it much better. So you declare it done, turn it in, and hope for […]
Ages ago I wondered about the tendency of novelists to subtitle their books, redundantly, “A Novel,” as if the reader is incapable of picking the book up and looking at the back cover, or the blurb on the inside front flap. I’ll never complain about that again. Why? Well, try doing a ton of author searches in WorldCat for […]
Concert version of La Sonnambula, tomorrow night, Concert Opera of Philadelphia Temple University‘s production of Don Giovanni, April 20th and 22nd Massenet’s Manon at the Academy of Vocal Arts, late April/early May Falstaff at the Academy of Music, also early May I can already tell it’s going to be a busy spring…
Clancy asked me if I’d do a Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab post along the lines of this one from New Kid on the Hallway. BPAL, for those of you who’ve never heard of it, make some of the strangest and most fabulous perfume oils out there, and they have the best names for them, too […]
… are any of you out there using Twitter? I’m not sure I’d want to use it (I’m too lazy to constantly post what I’m up to, and I don’t know if any of my friends would be into it), but I’m also kind of intrigued by Liz Lawley’s post about it. Show of hands?
This week’s assignment for one of my classes was a "pretend cataloging" kind of assignment: take three books we’d read, and assign them Library of Congress subject headings. I discovered that I gravitate to hard-to-classify books (James Elkins’ Pictures and Tears was the trickiest one; I still don’t get why "Crying," an honest-to-God LC subject […]