October 2011
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Five Hauntingly Hip Sides For Your Jazz Halloween →
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Robert Burns, Halloween
Ah, when all of the seemingly disparate personal interests (or likes as the kids call ‘em) come together, but came together way before they were mine.
Halloween
Upon that night, when fairies light
On Cassilis Downans dance,
Or owre the lays, in splendid blaze,
On sprightly coursers prance;
Or for Colean the rout is ta'en,
Beneath the moon's pale beams;
There, up the Cove,to stray...
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How Franz Liszt Became The World's First Rock Star →
Recently introduced to Liszt through my practicum in music archives and music librarianship class. What a badass.
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"I See Dead People's Books"--The Legacy Libraries... →
thelifeguardlibrarian:
Complete catalogs of the personal library holdings of WH Auden, Jeff Buckley, ee cummings, Theodore Dreiser, Fitzgerald, Ralph Ellison, Hemingway, and many, many, many, MANY more.
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“And if it’s around October twentieth and everything smoky-smelling and the sky...”
– Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes (via shrinkinglibrarian)
I’ve been a lifelong fanatic of Halloween, October, autumn and all things spooky but, for whatever reason, this book/film was the one that entered my childhood psyche and terrified me. Still have a bit of the...
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“‘Books are not holy relics,’ Trefusis had said. ‘Words may be my religion, but...”
– The Liar by Stephen Fry (via twinkling-and-remote)
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Occupy Wall Street Library →
nocureforcuriosity:
Their official blog. Check it out, interesting stuff.
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boingboing: Polling the Occupation: What... →
iliveinafog:
mlisyphus:
My thought to the 93% that believe internet access* is a right and not just for the rich… freedom of information? Perhaps support for the next era in the history of the public library is more plausible than free iphones for all.
*included under “communications” like cellphones, which I think is debatable.
Before anybody decides these are definitive results, might I...
boingboing: Polling the Occupation: What... →
My thought to the 93% that believe internet access* is a right and not just for the rich… freedom of information? Perhaps support for the next era in the history of the public library is more plausible than free iphones for all.
*included under “communications” like cellphones, which I think is debatable.
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cameraobscuraband:
Camera Obscura’s melancholy pop songs are as soft and familiar as a treasured faded photograph.
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Mad Men Reading List →
Excited that Dexter is back, but now my Sunday nights will feel half empty. Maybe working through this Mad Men Reading List list from the New York Public Library can help with the long wait.
