So, I went on this huge search for Edward Gorey’s grave last night and today, when Vernica had already posted about it and knew the information I wanted. Had I read her blog first, it wouldn’t have taken two librarians and a phone call to find what I needed. And had I read the Boston [...]
At the blog meeting last night, some of us began talking about Edward Gorey’s grave. I figured I could learn what cemetary he’s buried in by searching the Web. He’s a popular writer. Someone probably knows and has it posted on a Web site somewhere. I was completely unable to find any information about whether [...]
Jump, Little Children is not anything about attacking children. It is one of my absolute favorite bands and they happen to be from, well, most recently anyway, Charleston, South Carolina. Music on the Internet is a big thing–between controversies about copyright law and the recording industry and people with good intentions who just want good [...]
Representative Mike Capuano has many close ties to this area, besides being our voice in the House of Representatives. He used to be the mayor of Somerville, for example. I just read in the Cambridge Chronicle that he supports the Freedom to Read Protection Act (H.R. 1157), which is supposed to restore some of the [...]
There’s an interesting discussion happening among news librarians concerning what to do with Jayson Blair’s articles in their archives. Jayson’s work is under investigation by the New York Times and Boston Globe because he seems to have invented people to interview for his work. Christopher Newton was caught this past fall making similar errors in [...]
I read an interesting piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education today about the Scholars at Risk network. (Unfortunately, access to the piece is restricted to subscribers only.) The Scholars at Risk network places scholars, researchers, and other academics from unsafe circumstances into institutions in America. (They plan to expand to other countries soon.) Sometimes [...]
I went to the spring Librarians’ Assembly at Harvard yesterday to learn about the efforts of Harvard librarians to collect international materials. I was intrigued by all three speakers, partially because I don’t know much about collecting international materials and was thrilled to learn more about it. The last librarian to speak, Andras Riedlmayer of [...]
Vernica and I met at the Governor’s School for the Arts in South Carolina while we were in high school. We were both students in the creative writing program. I moved out here about three years ago. Sometime during my first year, I began wondering if anyone else I knew lived in the Boston-area. It’s [...]
I was amazed last night when halfway through the Weblogs group, Vernica turned around and said something like, “Yeah, you’re right. Your hair doesn’t look purple.” Now, the comment in itself seems harmless, but that meant she’s been reading my blog. Someone reads my blog! I went through the range of emotions, like “Wow! Maybe [...]
My director let me thumb through his Iraqi Most-Wanted playing cards today. He ordered them off a Web site and passed the URL along to me. These cards are from United States Playing Cards, the real company that distributed the decks to the troops, not some trademark-infringing copy-cat. They even have a deck of Operation [...]