Christine

Help the Zambezi Elephant Fund (2025) - C

Next week is the Saving the Elephants 10k! Elephants can't advocate for themselves, but you can help me help the Zambezi Elephant Fund help them by donating even the smallest bit to my fundraiser. Please help if you can 🐘:

grouprev.com/fundraiser-s...

Turning the Pages of American Girlhood - McFarland Turning the Pages of American Girlhood The Evolution of Girls’ Series Fiction, 1865–1930 Emily Hamilton-Honey 978-0-7864-6322-0 978-1-4766-0151-9

mcfarlandbooks.com/product/turn...

Girls to the Rescue - McFarland Girls to the Rescue Young Heroines in American Series Fiction of World War I Emily Hamilton-Honey and Susan Ingalls Lewis 978-1-4766-6879-6 978-1-4766-4041-9

If anyone has been waiting to grab either of my first two books on sale, both are on sale at McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers right now! I'll put a link to "Turning the Pages of American Girlhood" in the comments, and here is "Girls to the Rescue" :
mcfarlandbooks.com/product/girl...

Endless thanks 😊

I appreciate that so much. I could use all the positivity I could get, honestly. 💜💜💜

Of course. I know the feeling.

I hope that you can shift to a three-day weekend at some point. It will be a game changer for you. I am trying to manifest that you get that change.

I still have my iPod classic. Up until I got a new car this summer, my car had an actual port made for iPods. I would throw so much money at them if they brought iPods back so I didn't have to always fear mine dying.

It's time for the episode people tell us they look forward to the most every year...

2013 throwback

Patreon.com/theawkwardyeti

It Makes Me Happy: Saving the Elephants Run/Walk Hello Readers. To know me at all is to know how much I adore elephants, so it should serve as no surprise that I’ve chosen to return to blogging by talking to you about how happy the Saving the Elepha...

In November one of my favorite events of the year will occur: the Saving the Elephants Run/Walk to benefit the Zambezi Elephant Fund. It brings me so much joy to join others in helping our wild elephant friends. To learn more check out my new blog post:

www.christinecaccipuoti.com/post/it-make...

It Makes Me Happy: Saving the Elephants Run/Walk Hello Readers. To know me at all is to know how much I adore elephants, so it should serve as no surprise that I’ve chosen to return to blogging by talking to you about how happy the Saving the Elepha...

In November one of my favorite events of the year will occur: the Saving the Elephants Run/Walk to benefit the Zambezi Elephant Fund. It brings me so much joy to join others in helping our wild elephant friends. To learn more check out my new blog post:

www.christinecaccipuoti.com/post/it-make...

It's going to be amazing to hold it when it comes out.

I am so very excited about this!

Top: deer says to spider “I wanna look spooky for the halloween party but I can’t fit my costume over my head.” Spider replies “Don’t worry, I got you.” Bottom: deer is at the party with spider, spider has spun webs all over deer’s antlers and one little one on deer’s tail. Spider hangs from a web, and says says “lookin good” deer replies “thanks man”

Ren Faire History: From Folk Music to Fried Food. Lucy. Image: Photograph of Lucy in Ren Faire clothing, smelling a flower

Out now! Lucy explores the roots of Renaissance Faires in the US, and how communes, folk music, particolored tights, and a reimagined past turn out to be more closely linked than you might imagine.

www.footnotinghistory.com/home/ren-fai...

YouTube version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LCG...

Yay! Me too.

My relationship with the book, now that I've read it after so long as a musical fan, is...um...complicated. I'm glad they made all the changes they did for the stage show.

Do you need something to listen to in these darkening times? Do you want an ACTUAL musical about #TheFrenchRevolution written by the same guy who did Jekyll and Hyde? Do you want at least three variations of said #musical? Listen to @gherrriey.bsky.social and @mynameispurpose.bsky.social and me!!

Brown and yellow logo for Thank You, Five with David Baxter and Matt Welsh

To know me is to know I love the musical The Scarlet Pimpernel. Well, @carriagereturn.bsky.social and @gherrriey.bsky.social kindly let me join them to talk about the many versions of it! If you'd like to hear my Very Big Opinions, Part I is out now:

www.spreaker.com/episode/the-...

I was joking, but I did think they were considered extremely popular classics. For a long time Asta was a common crossword answer lol

Wait...are there people who didn't grow up watching Nick, Nora, and most importantly Asta with their parents? I watched all of those with my dad, he's a huge fan.

25 Theater Books for Your Fall 2025 Reading List We're falling into fall with a great Broadway read! This season, Broadway's best have put pen to paper to turn out theatre page-turners of every kind. From theatre biographies to theatre fiction; thea...

Hey! I wrote a chapter for one of the books on this list (the Newsies one!) Exciting times!

www.broadwayworld.com/article/25-T...

Book cover for "Newsies, Newsies - Read All About It! Essays on the film and Broadway productions." Edited by Emily Hamilton-Honey; forward by Vincent DiGirolamo. The cover shows a black and white photo of a denacing newsboy. The text is black on a yellow background, and loose pages of newsprint frame the edges.

Okay, y'all, I want to do something nice. If you have a new book about to be published, or that was just published, reply! Let's make a thread of orders and pre-orders. I'll start with mine: mcfarlandbooks.com/product/news...

Photograph of Christine's hand holding a paperback copy of The Scarlet Pimpernel featuring the image of a gloved hand wearing the pimpernel ring covering a man's face from the Broadway production.

I've owned this book since The Scarlet Pimpernel musical was on Broadway, as the cover indicates, but only just read it this week. Almost 30 years on the TBR pile, but I finally got there. 😂 Never say never.

(Thanks for the inspiration, @carriagereturn.bsky.social!)

an illustration of a penguin with the words so happy written on it Alt: an illustration of a finch clapping with the words so happy written on it

Our YouTube channel has crossed the threshold of 3000 subscribers! We are very late to the YouTube game (we were around nearly a decade before we started posting there) so seeing it grow is extra delightful. Thanks, all!

YouTube.com/FootnotingHistory

Why Are Video Games So Fond of Opera? - JSTOR Daily Video games have a long history of using musical excerpts from opera and classical music, but some creators take the in-game operatic sequence even further.

As someone who has a shadowbox depiction of Celes' opera scene from Final Fantasy VI (III) on her wall, this @jstordaily.bsky.social piece delights me, even if I found it a few months after it was published.

daily.jstor.org/why-are-vide...

That was when he peaked for me. It's the biggest thing I associate him with lol

5,000 Podcasts. 3,000 Episodes a Week. $1 Cost Per Episode — Behind an AI Start Up’s Plan Former Wondery exec Jeanine Wright is leading a new firm, Inception Point AI, that's betting on flooding the zone with audio content: “I think that people who are still referring to all AI-generated c...

My rage is boundless.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Zigi seizing an opportunity to bug Lenny!
Initially, Lenny was determined to ignore him, but the younger bull tailed him, pulled his ears, and made himself such a nuisance that he had to engage. The antics even caught Kapei's attention - and he usually can't be bothered with baby play!