MARC in a Cold Climate

Hilary Jenkinson looking annoyed.

Hilary Jenkinson looking slightly less annoyed than he did previously.

the Drake meme but it's these two photos of Hilary Jenkinson

in other social media news I am really enjoying posting cringe on the library's IG for American Archives Month. just call me Hilary JANKinson

I had a coworker who would say PLENTY OF FICHE IN THE SEA every time I reshelved the microfiche in the library. I didn't kill him but I kinda wanted to.

Sympathy
1878

if anyone is tempted to ask me how snakes can survive in boiling oil TAKE IT UP WITH THE BROTHERS GRIMM

can't believe I agreed to a second date. anyway, this time I've been nailed up inside a barrel of boiling oil and snakes. I'm struggling with his mixed messages.

Teaser for a Washington Post article titled "Breadcrumbing and Three Other Dating Red Flags You Should Watch Out For."

in retrospect I should have suspected something was wrong when my date abandoned me in the forest and I survived thanks to that mysterious gingerbread house

absolutely, they're powerless against it

"Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement."

The two types of museum on any of the Great Lakes:

- Lighthouse Museum (featuring Shipwrecks)

- Shipwreck Museum (featuring Lighthouses)

of course they do, they just said it to you. unless you live in an after school special, this is not a winning gambit

oh, apparently it's "Do you really mean that?"

"Go fry an egg, bucko."

Vincent Price and Patricia Routledge, rehearsing in 1968. Vincent stans with one arm round Patricia, the other raised. Both are in mid-song.

Vincent Price and Patricia Routledge, in rehearsal for 1968's "Darling of the Day". Some photos just leave you going "Awwwww." This is one of them.

They all look like a different universe’s Shane Gillis

Apparently not! Very strange

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I clicked through and Gowdy was being active

Michigan football coach

TIL there is more than one person named Wink Martindale

YouTube video by Noël Coward (Official) Dame Patricia Routledge - "I Went to a Marvellous Party" by Noël Coward

Decadent and I have enjoyed this clip many, many times. She is objectively hilarious, and she's obviously having a ball here. RIP
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So much to mourn here. ICE shot and killed a single father just after he has dropped his two kids off at daycare. Their justification for stopping him was traffic violations form 12 years ago. Their justification for shooting him was that he was driving away.

A completely needless tragedy.

every accusation is a confession, part 573002

In memoriam...

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

Sign attached to light pole says CAUTION GARGOYLES ABOVE with silhouette of gargoyle and information number to call

It’s good that they list the extension because with gargoyles there’s no time to wait for an operator

"As Long As You're Happy" (Nick & Nora)

I have a fondness for unloved Broadway musicals based on mystery series, I like much of the score of Baker Street too (but it ran longer than a hundred performances)

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

if you want to add another column Deborah and Pamela were both really into chickens

oh no, Burger Cromwell

any book can become infused with garlic aioli if you try hard enough and believe in yourself