LauraEH/Opheliacat
@lauraeh
NYC by way of Chicago. Editor, design historian and educational consultant, now having fun telling people where to go (as a museum volunteer).
*Urgent Foster Needed!* For Animals, Inc. in Queens, NY, is looking for an urgent foster for a dog whose owner is being deported. Link to their foster application is: www.shelterluv.com/matchme/fost...
LOTR is especially meaningful to a lot of people who grew up in the 70s, when it was countercultural.
Bucranium is Latin for ox head, one of the coolest classical decorative devices.
The children of Chicagoland knew only one king of the United States–Garfield Goose.
Solution to not being able to order merch from the V&A gift shop because tariffs
The Battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775. Engraving by Amos Doolittle, 1775.
Buttons my mother saved. If she were still here, she would be appalled by current developments.
The only way to become a king in the U.S. is to be a goose from Chicago.
This is one of the odder new buildings in NYC. It's a stack of Louis Vuitton luggage.
It has to be to build all that knowledge! And then they built Mansueto Library next to it because they needed more room for more books.