Travelogue. Last flight out.
I approve.
The Library Journal / Tumblr ALA meet up is HAPPENING and I am going to be raffling off 10 of these babies. Pencil in Saturday, June 29 between 7-9pm. More details to come!
It is happening.
Intelligence work is hard. I get that. But I would think that anybody who gets referred to both CIA and FBI might be more important than whether I take off my shoes when I fly.
**How Florentine history sounds to an art historian**:
blah blah blah Medici blah blah Botticelli blah blah art blah blah
sculpture blah Michelangelo
**How Florentine history sounds to historians**:
blah blah coup blah blah blah Medici blah blah uprising blah blah
conditierri blah Julius II blah blah
“Just play the goddamned fugue by itself.”
A two-part program which included:
There was some chatter behind me about the brutality of putting a new piece on the program with one of Beethoven’s best. The consensus was that if it’s going to last as a piece of quartet repertoire it’d have to do that eventually anyway. The quote above is also from them, after the concluding Great Fugue.
Rohde’s Treatises were in the modern style where everything seems short and sharp and harsh, and the instruments appear to be playing at cross-purposes. The effect is disconcerting, which is probably part of the point.
I don’t think I’d ever heard the Beethoven piece either, so both were premieres for me. It’s very nice, and very lyrical. It comes in six movements which on first hearing don’t appear to bear much resemblance to each other. And it concluded with the Great Fugue, which Beethoven’s publisher reacted to originally by making him write something more pedestrian.
A very pleasant evening, and sold out for twenty dollars a ticket on a Saturday night.
Works for academic libraries, too.
On white board.
Just say no to QR codes.
Another angle on last week’s post about Adria Richards is this week’s allegations about Michael Arrington. A former girlfriend reported he physically abused her. Gawker reports further.
If you follow the link in the title and read the comments you will discover that the man’s reputation is much more important to most of the commenters than investigating the truth of the claims.
I learned about Lewis’s Law this week, too. “The comments on any post on feminism justify feminism.”
“For example, in serving as a hub, Harvard plans to make available to the DPLA by the time of its launch 243 medieval manuscripts; 5,741 rare Latin American pamphlets; 3,628 daguerreotypes, along with the first photographs of the moon and of African-born slaves; 502 chapbooks and “penny dreadfuls” about sensational crimes, a popular genre of literature in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; and 420 trial narratives from cases involving marriage and sexuality. Harvard expects to provide a great deal more in the following months, notably in fields such as music, cartography, zoology, and colonial history. Other libraries, archives, and museums will contribute still more material from their collections. The total number of items available in all formats on April 18 will be between two and three million.”
The National Digital Public Library Is Launched! by Robert Darnton | The New York Review of Books
Harvard is opening up its junk drawer and calling it the Digital Public Library of America,
“This is some seriously crazy shit. None of what he’s talking about is within a hundred miles of anything relevant to the gay marriage question. It’s just weird, confused, old-person bitterness, mixed in with the usual obnoxious conservative delusions – like the way fiscal irresponsibility is always poor people buying wide-screen TVs on credit, and never teams of Ivy Leaguers at places like Lehman Brothers running up trillion-dollar balance sheets at 40-1 leverage.”
In honor of the cooking binge I’ve been on lately, I offer this from my archives.
Poet Food.
