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beatscomicsandlife: Love and Rockets vol. 2 issue 7 back cover...

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:15:04 -0400

Love and Rockets vol. 2 issue 7 back cover by Gilbert Hernandez

aprilmarches: mollyphoto: How lovely is my friend April? My...

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:30:00 -0400

mollyphoto:

How lovely is my friend April?

My friend Molly is the best photographer! So fun getting to hang out with you again, Molly, and thanks for the beautiful pictures.

Look at you!!! You’re beautiful!!!

New bugs at work!

Fri, 17 May 2013 18:47:18 -0400

New bugs at work!

theclevo: Do you?

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:30:43 -0400

theclevo:

Do you?

evreux: (via 1920’s)

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:27:18 -0400

evreux:

(via 1920’s)

Book Recommendations?

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:32:00 -0400

vickyj:

Okay so I’ve got some long flights coming up and I need some great books to read on them. Something in the vein of:

Where’d You Go, Bernadette? (yes I know I tell everyone they should read this. Well, they should.)

Vampires in the Lemon Grove

Special Topics in Calamity Physics

And/or mysteries of basically any sort, as long as they’re compelling. What’ve you got for me?

Those are three books I read and really liked! “The Barn at the End of Our Term” from Vampires in the Lemon Grove was one of my favorite short stories in recent memory and I also tell everyone they should read Where’d You Go, Bernadette? (in fact, I actually told a friend that THIS MORNING.)

Suggestions:

A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki - I have been pushing this on everyone. It’s my first great read of 2013. I liked it SO MUCH that I bought it once, mailed my copy to a friend, and then bought it again. And (UGH, NERD ALERT) I sent an email to the college prof who first had me read Ozeki letting her know how much I loved this and how I probably wouldn’t have read it if I hadn’t taken her class. MINUS FIFTY COOL POINTS FOR EACH YEAR I’VE BEEN OUT OF UNDERGRAD.
We Live in Water by Jess Walter - An acquaintance said,”If short stories are the Guided By Voices songs of literature, then this is literature’s Alien Lanes,” and he was right. This is good, sad, weird, and compelling. It’s super short, but stays with you for sure.
PopCo by Scarlett Thomas - So, I’ll be upfront and say that there are some (politically reductive) things that I don’t like about this. BUT, BUT there are so many things that I do like — a mystery about a woman who designs code breaking kits for a toy company? And who was raised by family members who specialized in cryptanalysis and upper level theoretical mathematics? Who is smart, funny, weird, and sad (my favorite traits in both books and people!) In general, I recommend Thomas’ books for flights. She writes mysteries with an academic bent. If you want light but compelling plane reads, check out her series of books starring Lily Pascale, the pulp mystery writer/literature instructor.
Blackout and All Clear by Connie Willis - Perfectly executed science/historical fiction about graduate students who use time travel to research their theses on WWII topics (code breaking, shopgirls, nannies for evacuated children.) I burned through these during my first couple of lunch breaks when I first started to work at the Museum.
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray - Who doesn’t want to read a book about a kid that keels over in a donut shop and his friends’ attempts to harness their (limited) understanding of string theory to try and bring him back? A perfect coming of age book about kids probably for people who are not kids anymore.
Also I will read anything by Carol Goodman, even the “sexy” mysteries she writes under the pseudonym “Juliet Dark.” She pretty much only writes mysteries about folklore scholars who are struggling to finish their PhD and take up teaching positions at private girls’ schools or enter into residencies at writers’ colonies where they get drawn into a mystery. I would suggest The Lake of Dead Language and Arcadia Falls.

thechemistryset: The Gladys Buxton School Magazine, 1972-73.

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:33:52 -0400

thechemistryset:

The Gladys Buxton School Magazine, 1972-73.

bluebeadsandbones: “Devil Town” by Daniel Johnston: All my...

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:00:48 -0400

bluebeadsandbones:

“Devil Town” by Daniel Johnston: All my friends were vampires / Didn’t know they were vampires / Turns out I was a vampire myself / In the devil town

The English Beat, “Best Friend” What do you do when...

Sun, 12 May 2013 11:21:16 -0400

The English Beat, “Best Friend”

What do you do when everything is garbage and you just want to curl up on the floor and never leave yourself again?

I guess you eat a maple donut and listen to all of the songs that used to make you feel good.

The English Beat are playing a benefit show at the Beachland next week. It’s suggested donation $10 and all proceeds are going to the Cleveland Courage Fund to benefit Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus but (oh, the irony, the tragedy, the sheer disgustingness of it all) I’m afraid to go anywhere alone anymore and my Facebook feed is clogged with awful Cleveland dudes whose treatment of women makes my skin fucking crawl talking about they “can’t wait to see The Beat!”

altcomics: Ruth Krauss / Crockett Johnson

Sun, 12 May 2013 10:58:50 -0400

altcomics:

Ruth Krauss / Crockett Johnson

Local news!

Fri, 10 May 2013 13:45:44 -0400

Local news!

Photo

Fri, 10 May 2013 08:05:48 -0400

thelastgreatpoolparty said: Taxidermy is super susceptible to pest infestations, so the freezer...

Thu, 09 May 2013 21:45:24 -0400

thelastgreatpoolparty said: Taxidermy is super susceptible to pest infestations, so the freezer is the most sensible place to keep them. :D

Oh, don’t worry, I know all about pest control re: collections management. I just had no idea our cold storage facility was as large as it is until I went nosing around tonight.

I thought I had seen most of the weird stuff that work had to...

Thu, 09 May 2013 19:54:22 -0400

I thought I had seen most of the weird stuff that work had to offer, then I went into the walk-in freezer where they store all of the taxidermy.

The last time the Browns won an NFL championship was 1964. This feels distant to everyone in...

Thu, 09 May 2013 14:12:00 -0400

The last time the Browns won an NFL championship was 1964. This feels distant to everyone in America except those living in Northeast Ohio. To them, it seems like last weekend. If you try to annoy a Browns fan by noting how Cleveland has never won a Super Bowl, he will tell you that they’ve actually won four titles (1950, ‘54, ‘55, and ‘64) and that the only problem is that the term “Super Bowl” had not yet been invented. He will go on to tell you that the greatest football player who ever lived was a Brown, and that his name was Brown, and that the greatest player who ever lived is still only the second-most important person named Brown in the history of the franchise. He will tell you that he’ll always root for the Browns, under any circumstances, no matter what happens, forever.

And then he will proceed to tell you how much the Browns suck.

This is the central dichotomy of Cleveland football: No other fan base is so deeply loyal and so self-consciously negative at the same time. Locally, there just seems to be a universal belief that — somehow, either by human error or random chance — the Browns will fail at whatever they try. Longtime fanatics have code words for all the moments that have crushed their souls. “Red Right 88” denotes the fatal play call from the 1981 divisional playoff against the Oakland Raiders, when — trailing 14-12 with less than a minute to play, inside the red zone — the Browns tried to pass instead of running the ball and attempting a field goal. The ensuing end zone interception ended the season. That squad was (arguably) Cleveland’s best team of the modern era, unless you consider the ‘86 Browns (who were killed by John Elway and “The Drive”) or the ‘87 Browns (whose hopes were dashed by “The Fumble” in the AFC championship). There are no code words for things that went right, because those things never happen. - Chuck Klosterman, “Black and Brown Blues”

Not that you all need me to verify this for you, but this all runs SO DEEP. My coworkers and I were talking about “The Fumble” in the office THIS MORNING. You know, like, it happened in 1987 and here we are, drinking our coffee, talking about it TODAY. When my dad and I watched the ESPN 30 for 30 about the Browns’ last season in Cleveland pre-move to Baltimore, Earnest Byner was talking about how deeply he regrets the fumble and MY DAD CRIED. HE CRIED. I’ve had boyfriends who have openly disclosed that they would trade our relationship for the Browns to make it to the playoffs and I’ve said, “You know what? Me too.”

bluebeadsandbones: bobdobalina: [Peanuts, September 18,...

Wed, 08 May 2013 17:05:01 -0400

bluebeadsandbones:

bobdobalina:

[Peanuts, September 18, 1994]

HOLY SHIT

<3 Cousin Spike <3

Everyone who hasn’t read that Schulz and Peanuts bio that came out a few years ago is doing themselves a GREAT DISSERVICE.

rebeccaartemisa: always trying to be like hopey, but truth be...

Wed, 08 May 2013 08:18:39 -0400

rebeccaartemisa:

always trying to be like hopey, but truth be told, I’m a izzy/maggie hybrid of dysfunction.

Our work wellness committee partnered with an online grocery delivery service, so I’m grocery...

Tue, 07 May 2013 10:27:33 -0400

Our work wellness committee partnered with an online grocery delivery service, so I’m grocery shopping from my cube rn.

Once or twice in a lifetime we are fortunate to find a new variety of potato that is truly extraordinary; so it is with Klondike Rose™. A beautiful rose-colored skin with an amazing gold-colored flesh and taste that is simply unbelievable! Combine this with a buttery texture so smooth and delicious that this is a truly remarkable potato.

You hear that? “A truly remarkable potato.”

jannephotog replied to your photo: Currently Reading: Under Wildwood by Colin Meloy… ...

Mon, 06 May 2013 19:09:23 -0400

jannephotog replied to your photo: Currently Reading: Under Wildwood by Colin Meloy…

Nice apartment….I’m impressed with how clean it is….mainly because I know I’d have issues keeping mine clean lol.

Thanks! I try to keep things clean, but obviously that goes better on some weeks than others. It helps that I’m only responsible for a living room, kitchen, bedroom, and bathroom. Today it hit me that I’m only going to be in this apartment for ~7 more weeks and I got p upset about it. I’m gonna miss this place!

A Gaggle of Responses

Mon, 06 May 2013 18:46:01 -0400

aperez replied to your photo: Currently Reading: Under Wildwood by Colin Meloy…

You should really check out the physical book. It’s beautiful.

I knowwwwww. I read Wildwood in physical form (library copy) and would have done the same with this, but I tend to read more comfortably on an eReader (especially on my lunch break at work or when I’m reading in bed.) The eBook still has all of the Ellis illustrations, but I know they’re not the same quality as the physical copy, plus my eReader is black & white, so no color plates! ;__;

matthewedwards replied to your photo: Currently Reading: Under Wildwood by Colin Meloy…

unrelated: i love your couch!

Thanks! I got it a couple of years ago from Macy’s (which has a surprisingly large selection of MCM-inspired fabric sofas!)

menshevixen replied to your post: Weird Work Email

HOLY SHIT SECRET DINOSAURS

NOT SO SECRET ANYMORE THANKS TO [REDACTED]!!!