Paul Lai

Fobazi is a dear friend and amazing advocate for the LIS field. Right now, she needs our help. I’m thinking of her and sending her all my love. Please share, donate, and keep her in your thoughts.

I wrote about Trµmp's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, the trial of Mitsuye Endo, the example of Japanese American incarceration, pledging allegiance to war, the inherence of fascism, and my grandfather's Alien Enemy Wind-Up Doll™ @thebaffler.com: t.ly/n07l7

Call for Papers - Next Special Issue of The Political Librarian on Defending DEI and the Politics of Inclusion EveryLibrary Institute is a 501c3 organization that supports library funding in the United States.

www.everylibraryinstitute.org/political_li...

Consciousness

George A. Mashour: Thomas H. Huxley once remarked, “How it is that anything so remarkable as a state of consciousness comes about as the result of irritating nervous tissue, is just as unaccountable as the appearance of the Djinn when Aladdin rubbed his lamp.”

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

If you think COVID vaccines should continue to be available to all: take 5 min and add your comments at the link below. (Advice for what to say in the linked thread.)

Yellow Face ~ About | Great Performances | PBS Enjoy Tony winner David Henry Hwang’s Broadway comedy starring Daniel Dae Kim.

FYI Yellowface on PBS Friday, May 16, 2025. www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/y...

"Nothing is quite as sexy to them as hearing a gay Chinese man say: hair dryer."
from HOW TO SPEAK HOKKIEN by Siete Lin #OnSaleNow #2024title https://buff.ly/41ySRNA

Guest Post - Classification as Colonization: The Hidden Politics of Library Catalogs - The Scholarly Kitchen The renaming of "Mount Denali" and "Gulf of Mexico" to the politically loaded “Mount McKinley" and "Gulf of America" reveal the naked truth of what cataloging has always been: a battlefield where mean...

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Event poster (details in post)

Where Every Ghost Has a Name: A Memoir of Taiwanese Independence

Kim Liao
Sat, Feb 22 10:00 AM PT

This event is hosted by the Taiwanese American Federation of Northern California as part of their annual 228 Commemoration and is co-presented by TaiwaneseAmerican.org.

🔗: bit.ly/tafnc-kimliao

Pikachu corner bookmark

Otis bookmark

The sky at sunset

Who will chase the squirrels out of our yard?

Duplex, one side with pink light and the other with green

Good boy Otis dog

We said goodbye to our good, sweet boy Otis this morning. His health rapidly decided this week (chest cavity filled with fluids and cancerous cells). We will miss him so much.

Otis, 2014-2024

Otis and Milo on a walk

BUT AT SOME POINT SOON AFTER, DRAWING SPLITS OFF, AND FOR MOST PEOPLE IT MOVES FIRST TO THE MARGINS AND THEN VANISHES FROM THE PAGE ENTIRELY. IT'S A GHOST FOR MOST PEOPLE, A SCARY ONE WE AVOID ROUSING. WHEN WE _MUST_ DRAW, WE USE A SYMBOL. NO GHOST CAN INHABIT A STICKMAN. NO GHOST WANTS TO.

From Lynda Barry's Making Comics

Picture of Wham! and map of Mordor with mashup lyrics: Last Christmas, I gave you my heart, but the very next day, they were all of them, deceived; for another Heart was made...

Otis dog with big head

Milo dog with bundled peets

Xmas babies!

Ooof such a searingly painful but necessary book of poems about the long-standing trauma of abuse and bipolar 2.... Eugenia Leigh's Bianca. fourwaybooks.com/site/bianca/

That's the closest bookstore to me!

hoppy holidays! December 2024 Drawings of Duck, Frog, Milo, Otis, and Giles

hoppy holidays!

a woman with green hair is standing next to another woman Alt: Elphaba and Galinda flipping their hair

Current mood

Sleeping dogs

Lazing

Two dogs sleeping

Holiday week!

"his purple tie like violence"

-- from Randall Mann's "My Guidance Counselor'

Otis

Milo

Saturday night!

"Well hello." Mole and cake.

It me (from Charlie Mackesy's The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse)

Two dogs and piles of books

Saturday morning reading station