the feminist librarian

... not one of ours, sadly. Though I imagine Teazle would be totally into boxing herself. And then immediately climbing out again. And then ...

Here's a bit of absolute fluffy fluff for your Friday afternoon ... In my circle of fannish friends we've been struck lately by th...

Hanna and I spent the weekend in Maine at her parents' house, which was a blessed break from the heat of an urban summer and also a two-...

via I got home from one of those days in which I was dashing hither and yon doing work-related stuff and found what I really wanted to d...

I don't have the mental oomph this week for a thirty at thirty post, so I thought instead I'd offer you a little anecdote from the ...

So last night I got a pingback on a book review I wrote earlier in the year at Harpyness of Stephanie Coontz' A Strange Stirring. Out o...

The new House and Human Services classification of birth control as preventative medicine has the crazies at Fox News up in arms. Why? Steph...

Some things never change. This passed week at the MHS, some colleagues and I posed for mock Victorian daguerreotype photographs to promot...

May I say: Vag Magazine FTW! Vag Magazine Episode 1: "Fumbling Toward Ecstasy" from Vag Magazine on Vimeo . My latest issue...

It's a busy day at work today, folks, and I don't have time for an elaborate introduction / cross-post. Though I will say two thing...

Lady Mary prepares to be unwise in her flirtations. Following up last week's live-blog of the first episode of Masterpiece Theater...

Hanna and I, along with our friend Minerva , watched the first episode of Masterpiece Theater's " Downton Abbey " last night ...

Hanna and I watched this on Wednesday night and were in tears. 'Cause really, he says it all. All that is wrong with this ad and all tha...

My colleague, Jeremy , receives the print edition of The Atlantic magazine and I happened to notice, yesterday, the following query and res...

From the always-on-pitch xkcd . Presented without further comment.

As previously mentioned, my sister and her boyfriend just moved to Austin, Texas and by all accounts it is an awesome place. Here's som...

Via my friend Laura comes this warning from a coffee shop in L.A., posted online at The Consumerist . I'm going to admit up front I find...

I'm processing a collection at Northeastern donated by Michael Meltsner , one of the faculty at the School of Law. On an op-ed page from...

Via Hanna comes this awesome sign from the blog Engrish Funny. The text on the sign reads: Diploma Is A Tool of Satan Diplomas and academi...

Right-wing celebrity of the moment (a girl can hope, yeah?) Sara Palin appeared in Boston this past Wednesday , April 14th, for a whinge ses...