Toronto Rant

Nancy, on holiday in Toronto, being her grumbly self:

Oh god: A guy just walked by with two squash racquets sticking out of his bag. And Rick Astley is playing on the video screens. If it weren’t for the smartphones, I’d think I walked into an ‘80s time warp.

— Nancy Nall Derringer (@nnall) August 30, 2018

With this site, maybe the bar could be located, or at least guessed at.

1 September update: This list of the top fifteen squash courts and clubs in Toronto would be helpful too.

On the Southern Dialect (a post in progress)

This is a book on the subject.

A Wonkette article on contempt for at least a certain Southern accent.

Via @SRothbell

look at this amazing flyer @Juggolantern and I made to remind #EchoParkRising attendees that “revitalization” is displacement #EchoParkRisingRent pic.twitter.com/OmR6cz5xHe

— tracy jeanne rosenthal #yeson10 (@xxexegesis) August 18, 2018

Wait. @Madonna aka Madge can open schools, hospitals and raise almost a million dollars for underprivileged kids and Twitter judges are silent..but let her tell a story about how Aretha influenced her and she is trending. It's not Madonna with screwed up priorities it's you.

— Don (@DonWayneHair1) August 21, 2018

.@NickiMinaj and @Madonna showing each other love backstage at the #VMAs. pic.twitter.com/tTGXsKWsrp

— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) August 21, 2018

Madonna getting embalmed pic.twitter.com/vrznTKV2Vn

— Christian (@christianismad) August 21, 2018

Mad. Indeed.

Mark Ames opines on V.S. Naipaul.

Aretha Franklin died this morning. I found out about 5:30 a.m. Hawaii time. There's still much of her music I haven't heard but should like to.

Stoop-id People, f.k.a. Post

Yep. https://t.co/zkMibAaZjP pic.twitter.com/dbWBhdj7UW

— Roy Edroso (@edroso) August 1, 2018

Another instance of New York slowly becoming like a theme park, according to Jeremiah Moss.

Two things that occur to me:

I keep thinking about that fake stoop. The stoop, so utterly urban, normally brings the inside out; facing the street, it engages residents with the sidewalk ballet.

Lately, I've been watching reruns of Hey Arnold! on Teen Nick. One of the minor characters is named Stoop Kid. He doesn't just hang out on the stoop but lives on it, and apparently never leaves it. And not only doesn't he "engage with the sidewalk ballet" he actively rejects it, shouting at passersby who seem to get too close to his stoop, not unlike the stereotypical old man yelling at people to get off his lawn.



CBGB was never an abbreviation but an acronym: "Its full name of CBGB & OMFUG stands for 'Country, Bluegrass, Blues and Other Music for Uplifting Gormandizers'."--Wikipedia

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Librarian.net Update

I haven't read librarian.net in ages, but checking it out tonight, I read that Jessamyn is on the faculty of the UH-Manoa library school.

Currently I teach at UH Manoa’s library school....

Quick to Order, Slow to Arrive

Nancy grumbles about discusses the state of McDonald's, particularly the long wait for items ordered. And the other day I noticed the "wimpy cat-blogger" finally deleted NN from his blogroll.

Three of Four on Lady Baltimore Cakes

modern prehistoric housing
(the photo by Prokudin-Gorskii) pic.twitter.com/JYq7E7N767

— Thy Svid (@okolikon) July 28, 2018

I don't get to The Ave that much, so forgot how big & independent @ubookstorereads actually is. I picked up this interesting book by @annebyrn (@rodaleinc) because Lady Baltimore Cake! pic.twitter.com/vZK1Htkjd3

— Entre Rios Books (@EntreRiosBooks) July 15, 2018

Homemade Lady Baltimore cake, cappuccino; Vivaldi Gloria on the radio; light rain, rabbit in the backyard. Sunday morning. pic.twitter.com/DpWKZeTIyu

— Bill Thayer 🎗️ LacusCurtius (@LacusCurtius) May 20, 2018

Curious about the history of cake in America? Join us today @amhistorymuseum at 1:00 PM to learn about one of America's most beloved cake pairings: Lord and Lady Baltimore cakes. One features figs, the other cherries -- how fanciful! #SmithsonianFood INFO: https://t.co/grTipb5VRl

— Dr. Ashley Rose Young (@AshleyRoseYoung) April 6, 2018

People come up to me and say, “I need you to help me write a book.” https://t.co/42M7lmsuwY

— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) July 27, 2018

Morris Berman on the Benedict Option

Morris Berman and the Benedict Option."

Time

I Do Not Have The Same 24 Hours As Beyoncé https://t.co/5VeCydKE0N via @wearyourvoice

— ♈️☀️#GlitterOnTheCash🌙♌️ (@FeministaJones) July 30, 2018

Some Tweets About History

Today @niasknaw hosted a successful workshop “Decolonizing knowledge”, on the development of knowledge cultures in Indonesia, India and Africa after independence. On the intersection of history of science, book history, and political history pic.twitter.com/Y4RVB2hCwL

— Remco Raben (@RemcoRaben) May 28, 2018

New post on our blog! Georg Gangl discusses the "Theses on Theory and History" by Wild On Collective (@ekleinberg) in the disciplinary context of the philosophy of history: https://t.co/P1KOiQ56ce#TheoryRevolt

— Centre for Philosophical Studies of History (@CpshOulu) May 28, 2018

Check out the beautiful cover of @warde_paul @LibbydeQ @SverkerSorlin forthcoming book The Environment: A History of the Idea @JHUPress pic.twitter.com/r68hEYBdhI

— Matt McAdam (@mxmcadam) July 20, 2018

So I've been working on this for a while - and it's now live. A website stuffed full of rare programme archives, unseen interviews, documents, and photos, all exploring the long history of the BBC's attempts to embrace a diverse, multicultural worldhttps://t.co/a6HY13X5jB pic.twitter.com/jSPSUxbCKQ

— David Hendy (@DavidjHendy) July 18, 2018

EricBrightwell.com: African Restaurants of Los Angeles

African Restaurants of Los Angeles.

TBogg vs Neil Steinberg

Tammy Duckworth: I enlisted and lost both my legs while flying a helicopter in Iraq in 2004@NeilSteinberg : I got drunk and slapped my wife around in 2005https://t.co/p9neKsjtIV

— TBogg - more or less (@tbogg) July 3, 2018

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"Could Germany Fracture?"

"Could Germany Fracture?" asks Charles Hugh Smith on his blog, Of Two Minds.

George Will: Four Types and Their Reaction to His Column

Never Trumpers


Trumpers

Resisters welcoming him

Resisters skeptical of him

Ainokea

A reminder to take care when wearing legible clothing.

Dr. Elizabeth Scott from WDM/ @wdmtweets discusses using microhistory for #Sask history/stories; emphasizes that we can ask new questions of old sources to find new understandings of both artifact and nonartifact histories #shfs2018 #masconf18 pic.twitter.com/IPqGTsnqD1

— Laura Larsen (@triticum_red) June 8, 2018

I am saddened to see Mother Jones turn into a haven of neocon Cold War conspiracism with backing from a right-wing Silicon Valley billionaire https://t.co/iP9PPFtJM8 Also, Corn doesn’t challenge a single fact in @aaronjmate’s entirely accurate piece. https://t.co/ya0xIbdHwZ

— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) June 14, 2018

I am saddened to see my old home, The Nation, publish apologia for Trump and Russia. https://t.co/2n8nhffqhD

— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) June 14, 2018

Neither magazine is what it used to be. And it occurred to me recently that The Smoking Gun isn't discussed much anymore.

Atlas-Repro Paperwork

This company specializes in replicating historical papers and ephemera.


https://www.atlas-repropaperwork.com/film-props/

"Liberal Living Upon Narrow Means" (a post in progress)

1. Pay off credit card each month.
2. Don’t drink (save hundred$/ month - donate to a good cause instead)
3. Don’t buy or lease a vehicle.
4. Live close enough to work to walk to it.
5. Don’t get cable.
6. Eat out sparingly.
7. Save 20% of your paycheck.
8. Become a minimalist. https://t.co/FDPM9LITvs

— Adam Khan (@Khanoisseur) June 3, 2018

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Reaction to Reactions: Bhad Bhabie

Is Bhad Bhabie the first to post a reaction video to reaction videos to her song? I don't know but she can dish it out.

Excellent blog by @richardheinberg on why in 2005 peak oil advocates like us couldn't see the shale boom coming, and will struggle to get our message that it is in fact a giant Ponzi scheme out before the bubble bursts https://t.co/mZLXBQLDtT Meanwhile: pic.twitter.com/6GSXUw7K0d

— Jeremy Leggett (@JeremyLeggett) March 7, 2018

How Things Have Changed

Baltimorean who is 41 with zero retirement savings who has never had a six-figure government job with a pension says people who have to go to work all fucking day and still make time to do whatever they can to “fix” Baltimore are sick of these rich fucking scolds.

https://t.co/YAD1yRMH0r

— Snazzy! Snazzi! Snazzé! (@disnazzio) May 24, 2018

New rule, if you were born before 1970 or if you have ever made 100k or more in a year, you don’t get to use the word “whining” anymore. We heard you the first 500 fucking trillion times you tiresome dicks.

— Snazzy! Snazzi! Snazzé! (@disnazzio) May 24, 2018

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Don't Hate, Appreciate.

I don't often agree with Nancy Nall but I like what she says here. Below are some examples of said self-righteous/Debbie Downer types hating on the royals.

I'm-a gonna watch at least part of the royal wedding tomorrow, I'm-a enjoy it, and none of you wet blankets, dweebs and won't-someone-think-of-the-poor-of-England hand-wringers are going to harsh my mellow. Life contains both misery and celebrations, and this one has great hats.

— Nancy Nall Derringer (@nnall) May 18, 2018

That £30m royal wedding swindle represented everything wrong with the UK https://t.co/kGzRPcXCq3 via @willmwhiteman

— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) May 21, 2018

My two cents on whatever it was that happened yesterday https://t.co/7Yzm52yTIB

— William Whiteman (@willmwhiteman) May 20, 2018

No they’re inbred parasitical morons. https://t.co/ksCZPXkU1o

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) May 20, 2018

To which @ljhickey24 says:

We’ll take the Royals off ur hands in exchange for Trump & Family

— maryjane ☘️ (@ljhickey24) May 20, 2018

Hey media companies: “in case I missed the royal wedding”? I didn’t miss it. I skipped it. That was on purpose. Quit reminding me of something I was intentionally avoiding.

— Ted Rall (@TedRall) May 20, 2018

The Volcano

Sometime I'll look back at the news coverage of the current eruption and see what was the most false, or sensationalistic. The ignorance about Hawaii is understandable, but if people want to inform themselves they can do so more easily than they could have even a decade ago.

Kunstler: Fun and Games

Kunstler: Fun and Games.

Dude. I haven’t worn pants in, I think, 3 years.

Outside of running shoes for working out, no shoes in 2 years.https://t.co/PAOv5EFtFj

— TBogg - Totally King of New New California (@tbogg) May 6, 2018

Another Way to Celebrate May Day

MayDay: Saving Our Archives! On May 1-this year & every year-you can do something that will make a difference when & if an emergency occurs. That’s the purpose of MayDay-a grassroots effort whose goal is to save our archives. See @archivists_org MayDay https://t.co/6Witu7TbjM pic.twitter.com/9DZNGl1koF

— SAA Preservation (@SAApreservation) April 25, 2018

Walmiki and Malhar

Walmiki and Malhar: Two Endangered Languages Discovered.