I saw a SEPTA RR train this morning that had four (4!!!!) cars. will wonders never cease

It's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.

now that I’m not in academia I have only a few notebooks going at all times, mostly lined moleskine cahiers: no. 1: work to-do lists/notes, which lives at work no. 2: reflective long form journaling and also where I glue in ticket stubs and other ephemera, lives next to my bed…

currently experiencing the consequences of my own actions

give this to me right now @ josh shapiro

America has a lot of problems for sure but also for $8 I just bought a bottle of Tylenol so big it will last me for the next three years easy

if you don't have the moral clarity necessary to rawdog a basket of fries by yourself we aren't compatible

another day, another OCLC/Worldcat record that truly fails to disambiguate between editions as well as between print vs digital versions. folks what are we even doing here

I hate scary stuff and I don’t drink Dr. Pepper and you’d have to pay me a Lot of money to go to Texas rn, but damn for only $35 I will absolutely take the Paranormal Experience tour at the Dr. Pepper Museum

Gather 'round for the annual posting of... "A Mixed MARC/BIBFRAME Environment; or, A Visit from Ms. Henriette."

LOVE looking at last night of Hannukah instagram stories and finding out what kinds of candles people are using. I salute my fellow yids who are also using the cheap shit from the Acme, three of which broke while I was setting up my menorah tonight

@ rfk man it’s the Friday before a major holiday why you gotta do this shit now or at all

slow day in the office so figured we'd start some beef with museums

just learned from That rare books listserv that the actress who voices Mrs Puff on SpongeBob originated a role in the original production of Hello Dolly. I need to lie down

we made 43 latkes from 3lbs of potatoes tonight and the oil smell got into everything so strongly I got into an uber home just now and the driver asked me what food I had with me (fun fact: none, because we ate all 43 latkes)

something that i only learned this year is that before there were potatoes in europe, jews celebrated hannukah by frying cheese - which is to say, mozzarella sticks are a hannukah food!

On the one hand, felt okay enough this morning to get to the grocery store and back under my own steam. On the other, casually blew my nose just now and my ear popped so bad I whimpered aloud. Not a fan of this cold, I must say

there is something to be said for being curled up in my jammies on the couch at 6:30pm, dinner already eaten, cup of tea in hand. like yes i am on day 9 of this horrific cold and i will be going to bed in an hour but more generally coziness is so good, y'know?

Amazing how much a Little Dog brightens up your household

there is of course no virtue in suffering but I do love being snuggled up in my bed with a cold sneezing and coughing… augh look at me I am so pitiful….

I don’t care how quickly I personally would die, I want to be at the Christmas court at Chinon in 1183

It’s Giving Tuesday. (It’s giving … Tuesday.) I really encourage you to donate to an abortion fund, which make the promise of equality real by allowing women to control their bodies and lives, pursue their dreams, and live with dignity. Find your local fund here: abortionfunds.org

one of my friends was so excited about the new pics of Luigi that she messaged the group chat at 1am about them. that’s commitment

“What’s the rarest book you own?” 🤪

if I was a 12th century Cluniac monk I never would have gotten to passively watch files download at 25 MB/s and would have had to content myself with observations of babbling brooks, fields of wheat swaying in the wind, sunsets, etc

now I admit it’s on me for being so foolish as to mop the kitchen floor before dinner and not after. however. dropping mac and cheese all over my freshly-mopped kitchen floor? not a GREAT way to end a trying weekend I must say

just trying to get out in front of this shit: i’m jewish. i am a jew. i do not celebrate christmas nor even really approve of it that much tbh. a surprising number of people every year fail to correlate ‘jew’ with ‘no christmas.’ regardless that is simply the way of the world

Just polished a silver bowl so well I can see my chin hairs in the reflection. Can’t wait to wake up tomorrow wondering why my forearms hurt

Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.

this post made me make gyoza for dinner but somehow I didn’t think about Japanese fascism even once

it would be so cool if my commute stopped taking two hours and if septa ever communicated information in a timely manner but this appears to be too much to ask

finally finished reading all the issues of the LRB from my subscription for 2024. it is 20 November 2025. please clap

just saw a Facebook comment referring to the “bemidbar b’Montana.” Jewish American English is so beautiful actually

Methodology

whomst up enjoying the satisfying feeling of establishing a much more accurate publication date on a 19th century imprint than WorldCat or even AAS

this is still happening btw. i know we have a lot of problems in this crazy mixed-up world of ours but i've been applying a Lot of aquaphor and for what? for my favorite food to hurt me?

latin literature of the 5th-6th centuries AD

having one of those nights where I just spent hours making something elaborate that sounded good at the time and now it’s ready and I am thoroughly disgusted by the whole thing and don’t want to eat it

my mother just sent me a photograph of myself aged 15 with no warning which is a hate crime in and of itself

wait Elisa New is married to Larry Summers???? every day I learn things about harvard faculty

it got so cold and dry so fast here and my lips have cracked so bad that eating potato chips irritates them. i can't go on like this

Mantel, Wolf Hall Byatt, Angels & Insects Forster, Howards End Rooney, Conversations with Friends Rose, Parallel Lives Nelson, The Argonauts Pym, Excellent Women Warner, The Corner That Held Them

John Fetterman retire bitch.

anyway. Dick Cheney died the same day Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City. you bet your whole ass a better world is possible.

wait a second. better things are possible???

the Harvard alumni mag (which I do read cover to cover every time 🥴) is so centrist in my eyes as to be basically right wing but the letters to the editor in the most recent issue suggest that many alums actually experience it as unbearably leftist and I truly have to laugh. we are so fucked

I have not previously tried to purchase concert tickets for a big star in a big arena tour situation with a presale and a queue but I am doing it for next year’s Florence and the Machine tour because, well, duh, and wow Ticketmaster sucks in basically every conceivable way

sitting alone in my cozy little bookshop, cataloging and drinking a cup of coffee while the rain comes down… idk guys maybe the dark academia people had a point

PA, wow! I’ve felt crazy trying to keep my grocery budget in check over the last year and I’m actually extremely well off so if it feels hard for ME…