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Welcome to the resistance, director of the Eisenhower library in Kansas who would not let the president steal a historic sword

Pissy email to Congressman Mike Lawler regarding the firings and replacement of senior positions at the Library of Congress.

Having a hard time with this #LibraryofCongress mess.

They came for #museums and zoos yesterday, and yet I'm hung up on the use of the word "effectuate." We're deep into the 1984 newspeak now.

I get to be @wcs-archives.bsky.social #socialmedia jockey among my many responsibilities😁. Here's one that went out yesterday.

Saw this with the other nominated animation shorts and this one has images that stuck with me. It is triggering as it opens with a scene of domestic violence. But what was even more stunning was the abstract visuals of what pain and rage looked like inside of a character's psyche. #Oscars #animation

YouTube video by poorthings65 Flypaper - VPN

Raise your hand if you were also in an indie rock video with prop archival photos and footage years before becoming an #archivist
youtu.be/2KblK5-AcYw?...
#archives Anyone?
(I'm in the "Los Alamos" sequence.) And yes I do miss you, V.P.N. Sorry that Information Technology took your name from you.

The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

Happy birthday!

NYC folk: Hakeem Jeffries office is at 55 Hanson Pl. Suite 603, Brooklyn, NY 11217 near the Atlantic Ave Barclays Center stop

Both K. Gillibrand and C. Schumer have district offices in midtown Manhattan at 780 Third Ave. NY, NY 10017
Gillibrand's office is 2601, Schumer's is 2301

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

Great clip! I know what it's like to be that dog on top of the car. (I had to run wiring out a car window, up and over to a platform outlet once) This looks like Court St Station, the future home of the NYTM! Remarkable how that block of Court St still looked the similar around 2010.

Now's the time to add the A for #Accessibility to DEI efforts everywhere. Maybe lead with it (ADEI) or mix it in (DAEI) so the radicalized right won't find #DEI in every online search.
The Society of American #Archivists has emphasized accessibility alongside DEI for years. Who's with them?!

Tony Sarg's New York

This fantastically illustrated Tony Sarg book from the 1920s reminds me of a special research time when I helped to prepare an exhibition and book for the Grand Central centennial. And I am a bit wistful for the Manhattan bustle. www.google.com/books/editio...

#museums #archives #nyc

I had the honor of working on an 18 month #oralhistory processing project funded by an NHPRC grant at #Brooklyn Historical Society. The recordings represented a phenomenally diverse crosssection of over 40 years in the borough.
oralhistory.brooklynhistory.org

Some of the moments of access to rehearsals and a few occasions to connect friends with seats in 8H for 8 pm off-air shows were highlights of my twenties. And I am still a music fan who remembers those moments as much as any great concert I went to with friends. #SNL50

Nostalgia is as much a heartbreak as it is a balm. I'm in bittersweet anticipation for tonight's #SNL50 special on the musical segments co-directed by @questlove.bsky.social
In the late 90s I was an NBC Page and then worked at 30 Rock for a few years.

I have very few opportunities to work that way now. But I think I have to make room for appreciating and considering the nonlinear, Lynchian ways that I might still be able to share stories.

I have come to the realization in the past year that I gravitate to creating/unpacking narratives in the places I've worked; history exhibitions, oral history description, archives finding aids, even providing stock footage to productions felt like I was helping to tell a part of a human story.

News article from NY Times on David Lynch's cow.

Still my all time favorite "real world" David Lynch moment: Cow Parade.
''Don't you think when people tell you you're allowed to do whatever you want as long as it's not sexually X-rated, that they should stand behind their word and show your cow?''
#RIPDavidLynch

Gorgeous preservation work by NFPF for films I'm all too happy to preserve digitally at @wcs-archives.bsky.social

Jimmy Carter is the only President I ever saw up close and in person. My parents took me to a reelection campaign rally in Milwaukee in 1980. I was 8. I wonder if it was an event like this (plus an ERA rally and an outdoor concert or two) that made me comfortable with being in a crowd. #RIPCarter

Which Who? When?

Just saw that Richard Parsons died. 16 years ago, he sat for two #oralhistory interviews with Sady Sullivan of #Brooklyn Historical Society (now CBH, part of @bklynlibrary.bsky.social ). I think he was also a supporter of the institution, among others oralhistory.brooklynhistory.org?s=Richard+Pa...

In doing some research on the original New York Aquarium in Battery Park, I learned they had an exhibition of paintings by Stephen Haweis in 1925. Going by Google search results, he seems to have not left much of a legacy. I found myself transfixed by some of his composition and color, though.

I went to the downtown Manhattan location for vinyl in the late 90s-early 00s. There were 1 or 2 racks. Most of the new releases were priced below the CD counterparts. Few were interested in a vinyl revival back then, so they priced to move. My copy of "Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic" was $12. #NYC

YouTube video by Karen O - Topic YO! MY SAINT (Radio Version)

I know it's not right and I'm not experiencing the joy of an actual friendship but whenever a show I like features a song I like, then I think surely I would get along fabulously with the show's music supervisor. Tonight's "Bad Sisters" and this song being a great example. youtu.be/MLEcF3F6Nnc?...

Despite the clumsy propaganda and gangster gunplay, "Invisible Stripes" does tackle the double bind of being "reformed" while nearly never getting to reenter society without that carceral-state baggage showing up at every turn.

Max/TCM has a festival of Bogart films right now, many from when he was a supporting actor and stereotypical tough guy. One I just saw, "Invisible Stripes," was written by the Warden of Sing Sing Prison, Lewis Lawes. Lawes thought he could reduce recidivism thru movies. This is a hokey one.

What's up since I personally left Twitter over a year ago? A few things: I have been posting on the accounts of the WCS Archives as part of my job. (At Bluesky the very new account is @wcs-archives.bsky.social )
I've been reading Elmore Leonard's early stories. I signed up for Citi bike again.

@hipopener.com Katie!