Everything is the absolute worst right now, but I did email someone at the University of Chicago Press, and we are getting a new Turabian hopefully next fall, and like… I will take it.
That’s fair! It was the origin story for a hyperfixation on hemorrhagic fevers for me, absolutely nightmare fuel.
But are you reading _The Hot Zone_?
Oh man, someone is presenting at our college startup, and he’s trying to make jokes about Lord of the Rings, which would be great, except that he keeps screwing up the names, and I feel like I’m being trolled for knowing that Celebrimbor has a hard ”C.”
So @uchicagopress.bsky.social , any idea when we’ll get a 10th edition of Turabian? Especially since the updates to the 2018 CMOS?
Had a DELIGHTFUL evening at the @ncph.bsky.social book club where we discussed Caroline Fraser’s Prairie Fires, which I listened to before the pandemic and have basically been waiting to discuss with someone ever since.
Well, that should also be shoutout @jsvilinsky.bsky.social , I should have checked if you were here before posting! Please know that I enjoyed your outstanding narration and that that acting choice lives rent-free in my brain at all times!
Also: “French fries, French fries” from the absolute classic film Dick, which has a truly all-star cast.
The other day we were playing Wingspan, and anytime I got an invertebrate, I couldn’t stop myself from going into cursed canary voice from the audiobook of Swordheart (shoutout @tkingfisher.com and Jesse Vilinsky) about “THE WORM THAT GNAWS AT THE ROOTS OF THE WORLD.”
Catching up on the @youaregood.bsky.social ep on O Brother Where Art Thou, and remembering when my partner and I had to make our wedding website used the plot of that film as our engagement story and forgot about it for years until his cousin asked about it bc he was upset it wasn’t the true story
Why do so many places that sell t-shirts choose violence when they make their size guides?
“We could just tell customers the dimensions, but what if we show them every size on a random person instead?” “Ooh, and what if we give them a height/weight chart too?!”
I just went and re-read the email, and it actually says “very organized and timely,” and it hit AGAIN.
As an ADHD person, there is truly no compliment that hits like being told I am “organized and timely.” Put that shit in an IV drip.
Can we ban the phrase “no one knows about X”? Bc it must means you didn’t know. If someone wrote a book about it, I promise plenty of people know. Just say you recently learned about it, and let’s be proud of our curiosity.
I am too tired to be posting on here, but I really need political commentators to stop saying that it’s unprecedented for a president to refuse to follow a SCOTUS decision. Andrew Jackson quite famously ignored the decision in Worcester v Georgia to continue Indian Removal.
Lest you think this is sour grapes, I do not want to go space. I like watching Star Trek. Real life space is terrifying, hard pass.
Also what is to look up to? The prerequisite is just being rich and looking cute in a skintight suit.
Now the commentators are saying that the commercialization is the disruption bc you don’t have to do lots of training to go to space, but like MAYBE YOU
SHOULD. Maybe if you want to go space you should be contributing to knowledge, not generating tons of waste for bragging rights.
I just watched Gayle King and Katy Perry go to space for ten seconds, and it’s wild to hear these newscasters call them astronauts. I guess technically? Seems very rude to Mae Jemison, who they had doing commentary.
So it turns out I just missed being potentially exposed to measles on the Oregon Tr… wait, no, sorry it was the Grand Rapids Airport. It’s too bad there’s not some sort of preventative… wait, sorry, we’ve had a measles vaccine since 1971. WTF. www.cbsnews.com/amp/detroit/...
I don’t know why this hasn’t occurred to me before, bc I’ve had students do projects on campus history and I work with our archives all the time, but I’m definitely crediting chatting with @hngreen.bsky.social with shaking something loose in my brain.
Today I was prepping a discussion on using buildings and landscapes to study history for research methods, and pulling images of a campus building, and I thought—wait, campus history! Digital project! It can evolve and grow! I can work with my dept colleague & the campus archives!
Feeling very inspired post- #ncph2025. It’s been tough to find good projects for my undergrad public history class. I always want to work with community partners, but it’s tough w/uni policy on class size and my own limitations on time/energy.
“When has real progress come to those who are willing to wait?” -the exchange student playing Max Eastman in my 8:30am US history survey during our Greenwich Village,1913 Reacting to the Past game.
Sometimes it feels like it would be easier not to play these games, but then these moments happen.
Overworked Emotional Support Dog Now Requires Its Own Smaller Emotional Support Dog
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I love the, “Oh, you want ALIENS???” energy of that sequence.
A November 1957 Better Homes and Gardens feature writer, advocating for parents to follow vaccination schedules carefully and avoid complacency about the disease, put it best: “Don’t take immunity for granted.” www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/good...
