Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act’s immutably decreed.

We probably all need this right now: Japanese surrealist Tohukiro Kawai’s saintly cats. 🐈 🐱 www.gyokuei.tokyo/globalstore?...

Simone checking out the heat lamp. #caturday

Museums, South Carolina history, and #reparations

New Public Enemy just dropped!

They’re playing The Clash in the dining hall today, so at least there’s that.

A very adorable mouse from 1554

To celebrate #MoleDay here is the Ashmole mole :) MS. Ashmole 1511 (The Ashmole Bestiary), folio 36r. England, early 13th c. Illuminated manuscript on vellum. Bodleian Libraries digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/faef...

Bat, Frederick II, De arte venandi cum avibus, c.1310. 🦇 #Gothtober #BatWeek #31daysofhalloween

Bringing out some very new acquisitions for a history of sexuality class later in the week. Larry Townsend’s 1972 book is considered the first published leatherman’s book. #bookhistory

his very panics are more to be dreaded than his most fearless and malicious assaults!

Absolutely delighted to see a recipe for “Fuck the Patriarchy Chicken” taken from one of our queer zines in the center of the main library foyer’s cookbook display! (From The Corners of their Mouth zine, issue 1).

Boston Book Fair, CA Book Fair, NY Antiquarian Book Fair

Mood. Owl from the 16th century Aztec Codex Bourbonicus

#newacquisition an uncut 1873 issue of The National Police Gazette, showing the absolute huge size of the paper stock. #bookhistory #flashpress

Got to watch Thursday Murder Club at movie night at my mom’s retirement apartment complex and boy was it a blast.

Matching the new house trim color to the #schnoodle

Going into the fall semester like….

THIS

#blackcatappreciationday Simone

Finished up my biennial faculty report and had to stop myself from stating that my most prominent accomplishment of the past two years was being reskeeted by @flavorflav.bsky.social #publicenemy #fightthepower P.S. it was!

#InternationalCatDay Simone

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

unspeakable horror

There is no God, start a literary magazine

A great example of an improvement in telling book history: De Hamel: "Early Christian books...are usually..on parchment (papyrus gradually died out, except in Egypt)." Reynhout: "[parchment] did not supplant [papyrus] until the supply network for papyrus stopped functioning after the 7th cntry"

Having a blast making hectographs and pulling prints on the portable spirit duplicator with @briancassidy.bsky.social and his class at @rarebookschool.bsky.social this week!

knaves, fools, and murderers there may be

a herd of remorseless wild pirates and inhuman atheistical devils were infernally cheering him on with their curses

#biscuithistory is #bookhistory

Ok, so my last post about the new #PublicEnemy track that dropped was just reposted by the great @flavorflav.bsky.social This GenX academic’s life and CV is now complete. 🔥 #fightthepower 🔥

New Public Enemy track just dropped

My favorite Twain zinger.

Simone at the beach. #caturday

#newacquisition Punk Magazine calendar for 1978. Quite scarce, and they only put out two.

Wishing everyone a perfectly miserable #WorldGothDay today.

a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off

Going into the weekend like….

A tableau of two very different sets of course prep materials… #punkrock #bookhistory

Remy with begonia. #caturday

#newacquisition for #worldbookday 1959 and 1967 Bantam editions of Lucie Marchal’s 1949 lesbian novel The Mesh.

Same expression. Mood.

Our annual viewing of the Brutalist Easter Bunny in Jyväskylä, Finland. www3.jkl.fi/taidemuseo/v...

In NYC, hanging out. #ramones

Find the sleeping schnoodle

Great new artists’ book acquisition: Erica Rasmussen’s 2023 A Blessing and a Curse: The History of Menses. Hot Tomato Press, 1 of 20 copies. The book opens up into the shape of a red pad. #artistsbooks #bookarts

Squirrelhenge with daffodils.