The show Reacher is fun because it’s like Littlest Hobo but instead of a dog it’s a very large man who does extrajudicial murder

I’m not a good sports fan but I love to see Philly win, GO BIRDS

Obsessed with metro rewind (although I wish it also somehow too into account my heavy Fairfax connector bus use too!)

Sorry I was late to the meeting I was reading about camel evolution

Coming home after a really lovely work trip to Copenhagen (which I will post more about later) but most importantly I have learned that the company that made the vile 10% beer my friends and I drank in college also makes the most popular soft drink in Denmark

The newest podcast from the George Washington Podcast network has dropped! Inventing the Presidency tells the story of George Washington’s presidential career, emphasizing the ways in which he was both president and precedent (tm tm tm). www.georgewashingtonpodcast.com/show/inventi...

I just suggested that Fahrenheit is best understood as the lifespan of George Washington (32 being freezing and anything above 99 being inhumanely hot) and my colleagues seem confused for some strange reason.

A crucial thing to understand about my relationship to the holidays is growing up we only had 2 xmas albums: a 3 CD set mom bought at Costco (3rd CD was Gregorian chant), and A Very Rosie Christmas Part 2. Join me in celebration with this classic hymn.

The last of my three-talk series on all-star 1750s maps is today at noon ET! Join to hear me chat about the Mitchell map—the Google map of the late 18th century—and why you shouldn’t trust botanists with major treaty negotiations www.youtube.com/live/FNrqXsC...

I keep accidentally introducing people to 45 year old teen bio hacker Bryan Johnson and I’m so, so sorry

Watching an episode of Law and Order at least partially based on the Forbes Smiley map thefts and they keep showing 18th century maps and saying wrong things about them and I need to know who to sue for emotional damages

We're hiring a Digital Records Archivist to help manage our born-digital collections at the Library and across the Mount Vernon estate. Share widely and apply below!

I consider myself a connoisseur of weird New England names but I just found “Notwithstanding Griswold” and I may die laughing

My new hobby is cheating at the NYT crossword puzzles

Controversial but my main problem with the Napoleon movie is that Joaquin Phoenix is 49 the entire time

ALADDIN THE MOUNT VERNON CHRISTMAS CAMEL HAS MADE HIS GLORIOUS RETURN

Had a lovely time at this conference yesterday celebrating Jeffers Lennox’s important new book, North of America: Loyalists, Indigenous Nations, and the Borders of the Long American Revolution. Worth getting up for 8am panel which I don’t say lightly. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Almost perfect weather for my favorite seasonal activity (bundling up, opening all the windows, and sitting motionless in a freezing breeze like a TB patient c 1911)

Equally charmed and infuriated by chaperones explaining to large school groups how public buses work

Today's recent acquisition is an oversize manuscript map of the island of St. Lucia. It was either made by or for Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau. For more details, see our recent spotlight on Dr. Bertie Mandelblatt's work on this unique piece! jcblibrary.org/news/mapping...

If you’re wondering how I’m doing, I’m going over some notes I made on maps owned by Washington and I appear to have hallucinated a famous 18th century mapmaker who does not, on checking, appear to have ever existed

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I’ve seen versions of this post before but truly my favorite part of DC public transit is ads targeted solely toward defense contractors and those who hire them that are just completely incomprehensible and vaguely threatening to everyone else

My mom lives on a poorly-lit, semi rural road called DEVIL’S HILL, shout out to all the exceptionally brave Uber drivers who have taken me back there after dark

Existential hallmark movie about a big-city executive forced to come back to their small hometown over the holidays only to find that the town has moved on without them, no one remembers them, and everyone they knew has left