Last night capn_jil and I were perusing a collection of Swiss painting. We found this: and also the names for our new hip-hop duo: MC Allegorical Horseman and DJ Anonymous Master.
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I quote myself: “As the child of two librarians, one of whom worked in rare books and special collections, I don’t have family stuff so much as a museum and archive.” So when I’m at my parents’ house, I dig around. This time I found some scrapbooks. Steve wrote about the contents of one of [...]
Here at the Undisclosed Location (a.k.a. my parents’ house in Ohio), catching up on email, deleting comment spam (Why, why are the spammers so deeply attracted to the post about Rules being a Junior Library Guild selection? It’s harder hit than any other post, by far…) preparing for another small, low-key Thanksgiving, it’s hard to [...]
Earlier this evening I identified a Pieter Brueghel painting that was in service to swank up a wine label. I was vaguely displeased with myself for not remembering the name of the painting, and also surprised that I was the only one at the table who recognized it as Brueghel. I forget that not everyone [...]
