ROMANCE PULPS MENTIONED IN A 1994 ISSUE OF ROMANTIC TIMES! THIS IS NOT A DRILL! Somehow I doubt that article ever came to fruition, but still! Also, I'm assuming Shirley is no longer with us, so I hope she's reading all the romance she could ever want in the afterlife. ❤️

I envy the people whose computer is super-organized. I am not that person.

"Feed fanfic into capitalism, and it comes out shaped like capitalism." @readingtheend.bsky.social dissects the trend pulling fanfiction through the traditional publishing pipeline (and what it means for fandom): reactormag.com/with-the-ser...

Join me. Free. events.howard.edu/event/black-...

Well that explains why that Nano was such a disjointed mess -- some of the subplots didn't match in tone.

Also last week or so *sob* of having Hoopla access.

ooh new gothic from Eve Silver.

Survived the RSV vaccine only to nick my finger opening a can of Coke. Bleeding all over my croissant is not a good look.

Busy Monday at the CVS today including vaccines.

Birthday sale! I'm turning 50 this weekend. Sale on my direct store with 50% off! - Bundles (complete series, plus two starter bundles of 3 books.) - The audio book of Pastiche - Pre-orders for Apt to be Suspicious (1947-1948 at Oxford) All the details at www.celialake.com/birthday-202...

@celialake.bsky.social happy birthday!

Heartbreaking news.

For those who have been asking -- persistently! -- about being able to watch the lectures for the mega-course that I'm teaching with David Blight and Beverly Gage -- "America at 250: A History" -- here are the first two lectures: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

@toukochan.bsky.social I guess we'll discover how good our backup is...

Clancy Bros, Chieftains, and eventually Great Big Sea...

Like come on—- is this not one of the most beautiful things you’ve seen today? Looking forward to showing it to our 60 (!!!) JASNA guests tomorrow!

Hosting a JASNA event here at my rare book lib in celebration of 250 years of Jane Austen, and I’ve just pulled a cart of our JA 1st eds, our beautiful P&P peacock edition, a printing of her Grandison juvenilia, & works by authors in her literary world (Richardson, Burney, Radcliffe, Wollstonecraft)

Zombie apocalypse. Pandemic allegory. Bengali Muslim-Hindu immigrant relations. Sexual relations. KICK AT THE DARKNESS has a LOT going on for a story that clock in at 10K and costs $1.99! Buy links: books2read.com/u/4Xrqqv

Well interview went ok? I need to brush up my Office skills.

OK good news, finally an video interview with local temp agency. The references are potentially a sticking point.

Imagine telling the parents of kids lost to all those childhood diseases "oh yes we found a way to prevent all those diseases but we threw it away or we thought it was eradicated so we just stopped..."

And Agatha Christie wrote "The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side" about a woman who suffered the same fate as Gene Tierney, later to murder the fan who had infected her with rubella 9/

The actress Gene Tierney contracted rubella from an eager fan early in her pregnancy in 1943. Her daughter was born deaf, blind, and with intellectual deficiencies that required institutional care her whole life. Tierney suffered severe depression as a result 8/

Maryland joins regional public health coalition as federal panel reviews vaccine policy

Oh. My. God.

Omg. They're amazing.

Glad I checked my Disney account. It was set to unpause at the end of the month!

Kept wondering why vision was so bleary at the computer -- I was not wearing my reading glasses. It had to happened at least once.

Rook and Rose pattern deck and guidebook with dark green drawstring bag. Kickstarter rewards from @macarrick.bsky.social!

If you received "the Great Controversy " in the mailbox, blame the Adventists... although the happy hour is clever. www.npr.org/2025/09/15/n...

@almakatsu.bsky.social the Midori md thin diary was the other one I thought of -- new ones weren't in stock and yet. www.jetpens.com/Midori-MD-Di...

The feeling when that last outstanding Kickstarter finally arrives. Thank you @macarrick.bsky.social!

So we have the radiologist’s update on Castiel, and… It could be a lot better. We’re looking at another night of hospitalization, and at least a month of medical recovery. So I have bowed to the inevitable, and set up a GoFundMe to cover the costs. 😔🙏🏼🐈‍⬛ www.gofundme.com/f/help-casti...

Loyalty is an incredible bookstore with an incredible team. I've done in-person events there, we did the Comfort Reads panels there with @marthawells.com @kjcharleswriter.com @tkingfisher.com, it's a wonderful place. please support if you can. www.crowdcast.io/c/comfortrea...

Nifty volunteer job cataloging for the Jack Kirby Museum ideali.st/GIRg3P

finding a promising remote job and then discovering you don't live in a state listed. *heavy sigh*

Small victory. Dishes loaded and started.

@almakatsu.bsky.social happy book release day!

See also: Macross edition

Oh fun, there's someone on my floor with the same first name, and I'm getting her delivery notifications.

Sometimes I wish my mind worked this way. It'd save me so many headaches.

This shop is amazing... I would not leave this place. (Truphae is also the ones that did the ink subscription box.)

Baltimore MD CVS. I just signed up and attested I had a risk. No issues at the point of jabbing.

See, I don't trust my immune system anymore. That's why I need all the vaccines.

Reading a stereotypical "dusty shelves and yellowing paper" description of an archive in a story and not thinking of the archivists involved. Even the stuff that hasn't been digitized yet has to be conserved.

"I didn't really name this secretary Stencil... oh, Stennil, that's better I guess?" #rereadingoldNanos

Ugh lost respect for *that* WaPo writer.

@toukochan.bsky.social not our night!

Sigh what's the saying "the adaptations of Pride and Prejudice will continue until morale improves"? I'm listening to the new Audible version. They've given Lizzie internal dialogue throughout.