A blog by Cynthia Closkey
The Caganer, a Christmas tradition from Catalan — a tradition I almost cannot believe is real — is explained by Stephen Fry on QI:
Don’t believe it? Here is a photo gallery of Caganers for 2008.
(Many thanks to I Let My Fists Do the Talkin’ for highlighting this delightful bit of video, as well as this interesting bit of kooky Christmas trivia.)
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Happy birthday, Atomic Age. Photo of the Trinity Gadget via If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There’d Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats: The Future is Now #27
New options to Mad Men Yourself. Related: I would enjoy a Martini right about now.
I placed a handwritten note inside one of the NYPL’s 15 copies of David Shields’s Reality Hunger: A Manifesto that explains the purpose of this project and includes my contact information. I always enjoy finding things nestled between the pages of a book. I’ve found lottery tickets (all losers), a Polaroid picture, receipts, scrap paper, postcards–all evidence of life before me–and I welcome these mementos from readers past. I hope other readers do as well and are open to the possibility of connecting.Books, the Idea: A Social Networking Experiment « Gladys Santiago (via murketing)
Even though I own a copy, I’m going to place a note in Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Every Body because I think this project (which for lack of a better name, I call NYPL Connect) touches on many of the concepts he discusses. A possible challenge, besides getting people to respond, might be NYPL staff or other borrowers discarding my notes before someone willing to participate reaches out to me. Regardless, I’m going to include a note in every book I check out and hope I hear from some interesting folks.
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