Ignacio Gallup-Diaz
@igallupd
College teacher, Atlantic World historian, Poirot + Morse aficionado he/him/his
Context for the TikTok being shared of the young woman ‘hiding’ Mexico’s national treasures from the English so that they won’t be stolen and taken to the British Museum — a 1938 guide to the Maudslay collection of Maya sculptures housed in the Museum:
ALSO: ‘The Lonely Ones’ (1942); ‘Persistent Faces’ (1945); and ‘The Rejected Lovers’ (1951)
Several years ago I was collecting William Steig volumes at the exact same moment ppl were inexplicably divesting themselves of their Steigs: these are all first editions:
Here is her reply to my query about why the image of Dorsey was included:
I asked ‘new Siri’ about the Zizians + while she provided basic info about them, she illustrated the response with a pic of Jack Dorsey?!
Nadine Hurley's desire to get her drape-runner to be 'completely silent' was an inspiration for us to achieve our own completist ideal.
After YEARS of pottering and gathering items of shelving, I am pleased to report that we have achieved full kitchen modularity 🤓 *yelling like Faye Dunaway/Joan Crawford in ‘Mommy Dearest’* NO WALL CABINETS — ANYWHERE
While Bonifacio is such a creature of habit, I struggled to find him at his usual sleeping spots b/c he is sleeping out in the open, atop the piano 😸
Cat Update: We made MAJOR changes to the parlor -- a space also known as 'Boni's Room' -- and I am pleased to report that the princeling has approved the new arrangement! 🤓
Night’s reading: Ernie Pyle’s ‘Brave Men,’ (Grosset and Dunlap, 1945)
Evening’s reading: Wycherley’s plays and Dobree’s ‘Restoration Comedy 1660-1720’ (1924)
Saw this sublime note on Reddit — ‘Powers Park Squirrel Gurl Bids Farewell’:
A rare photo of Bonifacio in his tower with one of his hind legs dangling over the edge (usually his head and one foreleg are off-ledge):
From the BBC's Tom Bateman: "It is awful what they are doing to us," Marissa tells me through tears, adding that she finds the situation "devastating". She says "everyone is coming together to keep each other safe". Everyone she knows is terrified, "no matter if you are here legally or not".
Bonifacio rarely sleeps in the ‘house’ section of his cat-tree, but when he does, he’s sure to do so as cutely as possible:
Altho’ Bonifacio is not allowed on the golden couch, he nonetheless finds it a wonderful place to rest: