The big story –on my planet, which is celebrating a forever-long moratorium on the infidelities of professional sports people, but sadly has reached its maximum capacity of 1 human, all past present and future cats, and a sauropod resurrected through a secret potion I accidentally-on-purpose swallowed– is that people are both shocked and Not Shocked [...]
Surplus Cats
occasional updates, always elizabeth
books
sans comic sans
You know that poster from elementary school with the rabbit sitting in a mountain-sized pile of carrots with Comic Sans letters proclaiming that Too Much of a Good Thing Is … Wonderful! ?
Yeah? Maybe? No? Well, use your imagination and we’ll get through this together and then I will go off somewhere alone and feel [...]
Links of note
Good reads around the Internet (a.k.a. Things I’ve starred in Google Reader to write about later but only manage to put in lists):
My internet friend Lindsey Markel was mentioned in the current editon of Bitch Magazine. And she posted an excerpt from the introduction to her upcoming book, You Are Among Friends, in her blog. [...]
Book Bans and Challenges, 2007-2009 – Google Maps
Book Bans and Challenges, 2007-2009 – Google Maps: This map is drawn from cases documented by ALA and the Kids’ Right to Read Project, which is sponsored by the National Coalition Against Censorship and the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression. Details are available in ALA’s “Books Banned and Challenged 2007-2008,” http://www.ila.org/pdf/2008banned.pdf and “Books Banned and Challenged 2008-2009” (not available online); and the “Kids’ Right to Read Project Report,” http://www.ncac.org/images/ncacimages/KR2R%202009(1).pdf.
Picks for July
Things I’ve enjoyed on the Internet lately:
threadbared has been looking at standardization, street style and style blogs. This post Footpath Zeitgeist on Street Style includes links to their discussions on the subject while looking back at earlier takes on the subject from 2007.
Too Many White Girls at Jacket Whys. Race in young adult fiction is [...]
Costume Horror Drama Mashups
As a teenage girl I may have been a creative writing major in an arts magnet high school followed by a stint as an English writing major in college — but that doesn’t mean I’ve ever been able to get into Jane Austin. (Or anything Regency, really. I prefer my costume dramas Bronte style.)
That is [...]
Doodad Dilemma
I’m really interested in what iPod Touch users think of its ereading capability. It seems like a better deal than the Sony Reader, even without being specifically designed for ebooks, simply due to its all-in-oneness. I’m not positive I need all of the Touch’s features, but the Sony Reader costs more while doing less. On [...]
Overdue thanks
You were a library assistant at the Frankford branch of the Philadelphia Free Library in 1991 and the only one who would still deal with me after I told the nosy head librarian to “go home and pet your forty cats if you don’t feel like doing your job” when she attempted to deny me [...]
2k8 Post Mortem
New Year resolutions aren’t really something I can get into; I like how my vices have adapted over time, I’m comfortable with myself and my flaws, and each year is an improvement on the previous anyway so I don’t really see a point in setting goals or imposing deadlines on myself.
I would like more reading [...]
What’s cooking. NSFV (Not safe for vegetarians)
The holiday was good. The trip was successful. I did not wreck the car despite hitting a whiteout somewhere in New York. (I would tell you where, except the signs were covered in snow, and all I got was that we were 11 miles to somewhere at one particularly scary point. But we sort of [...]