Genevieve Williams - Shakespeare Adjacent out now

He had a fairly astounding following in the 1840s especially, when his performance tours were accompanied by a level of enthusiasm we associate with pop stars. He *was* a composer and musician of unusually high caliber--and also a stone hottie.

It’s not like there’s a real archivist running NARA right now or anything

Painting of composer Franz Liszt

Consider also: Franz Liszt

The Big Book of Science Fiction (that's literally what it's called) that the VanderMeers put out in 2016 comes to mind, though I think they also intentionally picked some more obscure pieces that they thought should get wider readership.

I wondered about that, the few times I've been there (only ever driven through).

I feel certain that a set like that exists somewhere in the world, though. Or at least a theme restaurant.

I'm a little bit younger than you, such that by the 1990s there was some recognition of how fucked up it really was, but I didn't get any validation of that until I went to college (and that was probably because it was Smith). It's harder to push back when no one else is, especially the adults.

Memory is weird. The other day I was in a conversation about the original ending of the Little Shop of Horrors musical, and
I've had “Don’t Feed the Plants” stuck in my head ever since. I probably last heard that song in 1985.

THIS, all day.

It's one of the reasons that "one of the guys" often served me as a defense mechanism--like, if they stop seeing me as a woman, maybe I won't have to deal with this shit.

Didn't work, either.

I'm not normally a fan of reboots, but I really feel like this is the right time for this one. (Minus the blackface.)

Its themes, alas, appear to be eternal.

Well, damn.

I never had a chance to meet her, but her work was enormously influential to me.

I thought about this a lot when Jay Inslee was running for president.

I keep feeling like this is something libraries could work on, though I'm not sure how (and I no longer work in the field). Because access to multiple distinct subscriptions is already something that a lot of libraries do--through SPL for instance I can read NYT, WaPo, WSJ, and more.

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The one where Kid Rock mashed up two songs by far better artists than he could ever hope to be, because whenever I hear it at first I think it’s one of those, but no, it’s Kid Rock

I mean if a badger was at Fred Meyer in Portland I wouldn’t be surprised

I used to live on the Hill and hang there after I moved away, but the psychic distance grew too great.

I haven’t even taken a philosophy class, just apparently read more widely than this guy.

Column A, column B, one apiece, etc.

s/English and Welsh Protestants of some stripe (I don’t know but the American descendants are Episcopalian) and same. The Italian Catholics showed up more recently, too.

She is, but it’s a brief appearance and not really part of the general knowledge of her story. Odysseus’s son visits Menelaus’s house and Helen is there. I only remember this because I reread it relatively recently.

More likely she’ll be in flashbacks as Tade says.

Greece as well. Paint just isn't very durable. But if you go somewhere like Pompeii where they've managed to unearth and preserve things like the Villa of the Mysteries you get a very different picture.

Similarly, the terracotta warriors of Xi'an often still had paint on them when unearthed.

A sign pinned to a bulletin board that reads: The FBI has not been here (watch very closely for the removal of this sign)

I remember seeing these in libraries after the Patriot Act passed

That can happen—usually means somewhat higher water content in their diet, too.

(I’m great at parties!)

This is the exact look I cultivate when looking for the track left by the mountain lion that my trail camera tells me was RIGHT THERE yesterday

Describe your BlueSky account in a single image:

Mutual aid, citizen science and travel plans.

I missed the conversation as well, but seeing so much I relate to in the comments on this post.

What I remember most is how the sexual harassment was off the charts. I was in college before someone validated that it really was just as gross as it felt.

Fair.

GSV STOP CARRYING OUT YOUR INTENTIONS is my Culture starship

I worked with an archivist like this. She was at that university for 50+ years and had the most amazing memory--give her a name and she'd tell you everything about that person, including which of their relatives had also worked/attended there.