My favorite Dorothy Parker quote ever, shared by our unblushing professor with our Foundations in Library and Information Science class on the first night of class.
You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
I felt like I’d arrived home.
Dear Mary, We all knew you had it in you. Telegram sent after a much-publicized pregnancy
-Dorothy Parker
Another zinger!
She ran the whole gamut of the emotions from A to B. Of Katharine Hepburn in a Broadway play
-Dorothy Parker
This made me laugh out loud.
How could they tell? On being told of the death of President Coolidge.
-Dorothy Parker
Sunday, March 19, 2023
Today Ohio joined five other Republican-dominated states—Louisiana, Alabama, West Virginia, Missouri, and Florida—in leaving the Electronic Registration Information Center, a national data-sharing consortium that updates national voter rolls. Right-wing election deniers say that the bipartisan ERIC is controlled by left-wing groups that enable fraud. March 17, 2023
📸 March Photo Challenge #19: Analog. A close up of the All Wave logo on my 190 gms virgin vinyl 10” record Off You by The Breeders. All Wave maintains a completely analog recording and production process. No computers. Nothing digital end to end. Kim Deal invented it. More Info
For those that use @NetNewsWire how do you manage saving articles to read later. Star them? Or is there a better way? Or do you use some kind of other read it later service?
📸 March Photo Challenge #18: Portico. Another challenge word I had to look up. And I don’t come across many a portico in my day-to-day so I reached back to 2018 for this photo. I’m dressed as a Gays Against Guns Human Being here in front of the Ohio Statehouse’s portico.
🤪 “He shed,” she said.
Seriously. Say it five times fast and see how you do.
📸 March Photo Challenge #17: Early. This is my awesome Kate Bush mug. I drink coffee from it in the early mornings during our together time when nothing is awake yet. We have some of our best conversations in the early morning. It’s a very intimate, special time for me.
The cover from my mother’s book.
📸 March Photo Challenge #16: Road. A page from my mother’s childhood copy of The Wizard of Oz. One of my most treasured possessions. “Which road leads to the Wicked Witch of the West?” asked Dorothy.
I just said bye to one of my employees for the last time in person. I cried.
I’ve grown close to this team. I hope I’ve been a good leader for them. Imperfect, yes…but good I hope.
I set out to be a kind person first, and a manager second. I hope it mattered. I think it did.
I can’t wait to take today’s photo challenge photo. It’s going to be of something very special to me. :)
Thursday, March 16, 2023
We have semi-regular manager summit meetings at my agency. My role has been to co-coordinate them with a small team. At the last one, I stopped in to the large conference room first thing in the morning to make sure it was set up for that afternoon’s meeting. I glanced around quickly and thought to myself, “This looks fine. No messes, nothing to rearrange, I know how to work the projector in here, the tables are all lined up classroom style, it looks like some tables were removed from the back, but I’m not worried; this afternoon will be good to go.
Several Ohio pension systems lost millions of dollars after their shares in a pair of failed banks tanked over the weekend.
Ohio pension systems lose millions in failed banks but say they’re a tiny fraction of investments
Tiny fraction? Tell that to the pension owners.
📸 March Photo Challenge #15: Patience. An early album named Patience from my favorite band, Over the Rhine. “I love the patience in your eyes” is a line from the song Circle of Quiet. These liner notes are autographed elsewhere.
“Ohio sues Norfolk Southern over toxic train derailment - The Guardian”
“Nearly every tumultuous movement in American politics has coincided with a call to ban books.”
“The Librarians Are Not Okay - The Atlantic”
Florida book bans are not a hoax
