I recently had the unalloyed joy of working with Jamie Jordan of Jacksonville, a designer with a fine eye and even finer sneakers, who, as a parting gift, gave me the URLs of her favorite blogs. It would be unspeakably greedy of me to keep these to myself:
Oh Joy! — inspiration, design, style
Camilla Engman — [...]
Archive for August, 2009
A Blessing of Blogs
Posted in Art, Blogroll, Fashion, Photography on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Woodchuck Mittens
Posted in Gardening, Literature on August 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“I noticed a woodchuck’s skin tacked up to the inside of his shop. He said it had fatted on his beans, and William had killed it and expected to get another to make a pair of mittens of, one not being quite large enough. It was excellent for mittens. You could hardly wear it out.”
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Auburn, 1830
Posted in Literature on August 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here, from The Boy’s Book About Indians (1873) by the Rev. Edmund B. Tuttle, I give you “Despoiling the Grave of an Old Onondaga Chief,” a story so appalling I lost count of the number of times I was shocked:
“On-on-da-ga was the name of an Indian chief, who died about the year 1830, near Elbridge, [...]
Have a Cigar
Posted in Art on August 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
One of the joys of the Web is the proliferation of art that you might not otherwise see, such as cigar box labels.
Father Klauder
Posted in Religion on August 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was raised as a Baptist, in a house across the street from a Roman Catholic church. Every day I marveled at the Catholics I saw, how different they were. The Baptist faith of my youth was cut from plain cloth, with simple rules: Everything I did or thought of doing was wrong, and I [...]
Sarajevo, 1992
Posted in Literature on August 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“When you knocked I assumed you were just another of the bored children with nothing to do but make themselves a nuisance by knocking on an old man’s door, then run away laughing as soon as the door opens. Or worse, they don’t run away at all. ‘Please,’ I tell them, ‘why don’t you run [...]
Back to School
Posted in Art on August 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thoreau and Ranganathan
Posted in Libraries, Literature on August 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Because I love both the writing of Henry David Thoreau and the art of N.C. Wyeth, I was delighted to find an old copy of Thoreau’s Men of Concord (1936), with pictures by Wyeth, a book filled with fascinating people, giving me glimpses into the lives of men and women I was never otherwise going [...]
Books to You
Posted in Libraries, Literature, Photography on August 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Is this not the most wondrous of bookmobiles? From the website of the Tompkins County Public Library, long may they serve and prosper.
I Walked with a Zombie
Posted in Art, Film, Music on August 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When an NPR segment of Bill Littlefield’s “Only a Game” closed with the song “I Walked with a Zombie,” a 1981 chestnut by Roky Erickson of the 13th Floor Elevators, I had to grab it at iTunes. My curiosity then led me to Wikipedia and the 1943 film of the same name, which I added [...]
