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rosecransbaldwin: Patsy got her first real break at age 20,...

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:40:42 -0400

Patsy got her first real break at age 20, playing with a regional country bandleader named Bill Peer, who was married and a father but still fell in love with her. It was Peer who suggested she call herself Patsy, from her middle name, Patterson. Their affair was well known and whispered about, and the indignity probably pushed her toward Gerald Cline, a 28-year-old heir to a construction fortune who wooed her whenever the Peer group stopped at the Moose Lodge in Brunswick, Md. They married in 1953, then fought bitterly for years because she refused to stay off the road and have children. By 1957 Patsy had split from Peer, then from Cline, but also had fought her way on to one of the most popular television shows in the country. It’s accurate, though diminishing, to call Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts the American Idol of its day; a greater percentage of the country watched Godfrey’s talent show than have ever watched Idol. A win could make a career, and that’s what happened for Patsy when she sang her third single, “Walkin’ After Midnight,” in 1957, and the impressed host deemed it a “wam-doodler.”

via A Closer Walk With Thee

thewolfpeople:

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:15:50 -0400

thewolfpeople:

important gchat

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:23:41 -0400

S: they make American Girl Doll clothes in big girl sizes
S: like big enough for us sizes
S: to be clear- this is not a suggestion
Me: noted

I had a protein shake with coffee and cocoa right before I left for work and I'm not sure I've ever felt more awake in my life

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:17:04 -0400

I’m not sure this is actually a good thing. my whole body is shaking.

Feeling pretty out of control of my life

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:36:51 -0400

jerksquad:

Cataloging is my only solace

you too?

notentirely: “Wow, those fish are super dead. I still like you,...

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:37:04 -0400

notentirely:

“Wow, those fish are super dead. I still like you, though.”

hyperbole is back. and when i say “back”, i mean “still so fucking awesome”.

perfect thing

my mom is currently on a mission to understand my anxiety

Thu, 09 May 2013 12:33:28 -0400

this is problematic for a number of reasons:

my anxiety is not like her anxiety and therefore makes no sense to her
for instance, she doesn’t understand why I’m fine with some things that stress her out (like unpacking after a trip) and have panic attacks about things she doesn’t even think about (like calling anyone I haven’t talked to before/in more than a few months) and it is really, really frustrating for her
the more something frustrates her, the less likely she is to let it drop. she needs to understand.
and then she needs to fix it.
I, on the other hand, don’t really need to understand why my brain is wonky (not that I wouldn’t sort of like to). it just is.
and I came to terms with there being no fixing my wonky brain ages ago (not that I don’t keep trying) and really just try to keep things manageable.
she’s still trying to figure out my depression.
see 1-6 and just swap out “depression” for “anxiety”
she has completely blocked out that I went through the whole therapy/psychiatry/drugs thing and have an actual diagnosis and seems to think I self-diagnosed via the Internets.
I find all of this very irritating.
I am not at my nicest when I’m irritated.
we are about to spend a weekend together in the middle of nowhere. should be an interesting weekend.

I bought myself my cat a new basket.

Thu, 09 May 2013 09:44:11 -0400

I bought ~~myself~~ my cat a new basket.

katehwilliams: str8nochaser: onikaisthenewblack: lickypickysti...

Thu, 09 May 2013 09:18:59 -0400

katehwilliams:

str8nochaser:

onikaisthenewblack:

lickypickystickyme:

If grandmothers around the world had a rallying cry, it would probably sound something like “You need to eat!”

Photographer Gabriele Galimberti’s grandmother said something similar to him before one of his many globetrotting work trips. To ensure he had at least one good meal, she prepared for him a dish of ravioli before he departed on one of his adventures.

“In that occasion I said to my grandma ‘You know, Grandma, there are many other grandmas around the world and most of them are really good cooks,” Galimberti wrote via email. “I’m going to meet them and ask them to cook for me so I can show you that you don’t have to be worried for me and the food that I will eat!’ This is the way my project was born!”

The project, “Delicatessen With Love”, took Galimberti to 58 countries where he photographed grandmothers with both the ingredients and finished signature dishes.

Galimberti said many of the subjects for the project were selected serendipitously, picked while he was working on a project about couch surfing that explored the global phenomenon of staying in other people’s houses. Since Galimberti never slept in hotels while working on the project, he was able to come into contact with people who introduced him to grandmothers in the area.

Galimberti acted as photographer and stylist during each shoot with the grandmothers, taking a portrait of both the women and the food they made for him.

From top to bottom:

Inara Runtule, 68, Kekava, Latvia. Silke (herring with potatoes and cottage cheese).

Grace Estibero, 82, Mumbai, India. Chicken vindaloo.

Susann Soresen, 81, Homer, Alaska. Moose steak.

Serette Charles, 63, Saint-Jean du Sud, Haiti. Lambi in creole sauce.

The photographer’s grandmother Marisa Batini, 80, Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy. Swiss chard and ricotta Ravioli with meat sauce.

Normita Sambu Arap, 65, Oltepessi (Masaai Mara), Kenya. Mboga and orgali (white corn polenta with vegetables and goat).

Julia Enaigua, 71, La Paz, Bolivia. Queso Humacha (vegetables and fresh cheese soup).

Fifi Makhmer, 62, Cairo, Egypt. Kuoshry (pasta, rice and legumes pie).

Isolina Perez De Vargas, 83, Mendoza, Argentina. Asado criollo (mixed meats barbecue).

Bisrat Melake, 60, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Enjera with curry and vegetables.

[ I was going to post a long rant about some arrogant white yoga girl who insist people are ignorant for using olive oil to cook and should not eat fish or drink milk or eat cheese because of all sorts of problematic food issues, instead I said, let me focus on those who celebrate food. If you still want to see the link of the article she was waving on her Facebook, there you go. Privileged white people…ugh]

So cool:)

the third set is calling my name. i’m calling my mama after work.

My grandmother mixed three bean salad from a can, spread pimento cheese on white bread, and sectioned grapefruits with a special grapefruit segmenting knife. And she popped butter-flavored microwave popcorn to serve the dog during the stock market wrap at 4pm every day.

jerksquad: librarymayhem: thehannahmachine: Weeding Tips from...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:25:00 -0400

jerksquad:

librarymayhem:

thehannahmachine:

Weeding Tips from Rebecca Vnuk

If you’ve ever wondered about any of these questions:

What can we do with weeded copies?

We have a professor who is adamant about keeping all of the books in his subject area, even though they do not circulate. What do we do?

In a library without subject experts, how do we identify the classic or landmark books in a subject that we would want to keep?

Do you have any advice on how to weed a reference collection down to fit in a smaller space?

Can you learn to love weeding?

If a book is 10 years old and hasn’t circulated recently, is giving it one last chance (on an endcap or display) justified?

How do you maintain fiction series or complete collections of an author’s work?

How do you justify weeding to a patron when they complain your budget is going up?

Or my personal favorite: My staff members do not want to weed ANYTHING. Help!

Then your search is over! Click through to read more!

I love this article, I love Rebecca Vnuk and the Shelf Renewal blog, and I love talking about weeding, but this really threw me for a loop:

“Can you learn to love weeding?”

Are there people out there who really don’t love weeding? I mean, I know that sometimes I might enjoy weeding a little too much, but I have never not liked it. I totally do it when I’m stressed and need some therapeutic time out in the stacks. It’s like a cleansing ritual.

weeding is my favorite activity. I have an ongoing daydream of starting a library weeding consulting company so my life can be all weeding all the time.

Who are these people who don’t love weeding? Can I have their jobs?

We’re about to undergo a major scale down/remodeling (yay budget cuts!) and I’ve been asking on a weekly basis when they’ll start letting me weed. I’ve got my criteria outlined and everything. Let me at the books!

GPOY twice a day, every damn day. I need a minion intern.

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:22:00 -0400

GPOY twice a day, every damn day. I need a ~~minion~~ intern.

I've got a super long day ahead of me tomorrow and I really should go to sleep

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:23:14 -0400

but I’m way to busy on the Internets reading about rabies in raccoons and shopping for auto emergency kits for that nonsense.

also, my left big toenail is badly bruised and for the life of me I can’t remember what I dropped on it.

also also, I’m going to NYC this weekend and I have done absolutely nothing in preparation except make sure I have somewhere to sleep and that doesn’t even count because all I did was ask my friend (yesterday) if I needed to make arrangements and she said “nah, you can stay where I’m staying” which is… somewhere? maybe Brooklyn? I feel like I should get on this.

brookehatfield: jasontravisphoto: Created a movie poster for...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:14:17 -0400

brookehatfield:

jasontravisphoto:

Created a movie poster for the Inman Park Squirrel Census. The poster features a group shot I took recently as well as my squirrel Persona.

spot my grandpa! (it’s not the squirrel, I WISH.)

Some days I really miss Atlanta.

kellympratt: Georgia: Pimento CheeseSandwich served: April 14,...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:24:46 -0400

kellympratt:

Georgia: Pimento Cheese
Sandwich served: April 14, 2013

Buy a print here!

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Owls! suddenly I feel much better about Bring Your Child to Work...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:04:00 -0400

Owls!

suddenly I feel much better about Bring Your Child to Work Day

And isn't the point of Bring Your Child to Work Day for your kids to see where you work?

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:34:51 -0400

None of these people work here. I work here. And if I had kids I certainly wouldn’t bring them here.

There are children and snakes in the library; any guesses which group I'm more comfortable with?

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:30:32 -0400

I mean, at least the snakes aren’t making a mess of the bathrooms. And they’re quiet. Also, snakes don’t have parents who yell at me for telling their kids to put down my stapler and get out of my cubicle.

about 1/4 of my conversations with my mom are her giving me shit about having too much stuff

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:11:59 -0400

the other 3/4 are her trying to talk me into buying/letting her buy me more stuff.

I’m not sure she understands how this whole accumulation of material goods thing works.

she is a woman of many contradictions… and a very selective memory.

Photo

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:07:05 -0400

"There are few things in life that can’t be improved upon by adding bourbon or removing a bra."

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 09:55:39 -0400

“There are few things in life that can’t be improved upon by adding bourbon or removing a bra.”

- Me, just now. (via megzam)

Megzam is a prophet and truthteller (via jerksquad)

Truth.