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Storyteller, librarian, raging against the dying of the light. Sisko is my favorite Captain and Dorothy is my favorite Golden Girl. I'll always say the thing no one else will say because I cannot help myself. I need a cookie.
Transitional cancer haircut before it all falls out, and my name written in the sidewalk near my hair place.
Making a Midwestern salad that’s not really salad from my mom’s handwritten recipe. I only add a couple of tablespoons of tapioca since what they sell now isn’t the same. It’s fruit so it’s health.
When we talk about yearning we really need to include Mr Stevens and Miss Kenton in The Remains of the Day (played by Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson) and especially the book scene.
We said goodbye to this sweet boy yesterday. My heart is broken. Love you forever Henry.
Lately I keep thinking of this scene from Cymbeline where the Queen is going to practice using poisons on “lesser” creatures who don’t matter and the court doctor Cornelius replies with concern, “Your Highness/from this practice shall but make hard your heart.”
Surely Sarah knows this but if not: during the McMartin daycare case “Hollywood actress and self -described psychic Shirley MacLaine” paid to have the grounds excavated? From Childism by Young-Bruehl, which has more satanic panic in it than I would have guessed. @yourewrongabout.bsky.social
Like most cats who started life on the streets, my cat Olive has eye herpes. She’s fine, it just makes her eye crust a little goopy. But it also means i get to sing “she’s got herpe eyes!” to the tune of “hungry eyes” as I pet her. Her blep game is also incredibly strong.
What I think of when people keep hollering that AI isn’t going anywhere, stop fighting it, just lay back and let the slop wash over you.
Each year for my birthday I read the Dream Song by John Berryman that's the same number as my new age as a sort of horoscope for the year. This year's feels painfully relevant to The Way We Live Now: "Incredible panic rules. Fools elect fools. I myself walked at the funeral of tenderness." oof.
This book is so good but the content is so infuriating that I can only read a little at a time. In case you were wondering, ALA has always been cowardly when it comes to doing the right, but hard, things.
Currently reading In Silence or Indifference, Racism and Jim Crow Segregated Public School Libraries by Wayne A Weigand. I was granted a review copy and look forward to discussing this book on my blog.