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Brave New Bunny World
This blog has apparently faded into constant annual repetitions of the Dreadful Bunny Story*, a sad and static loop focused on a single moment in the past. The world, however, has moved on, and there are new horrors in it … Continue reading
Posted in Questionable Parenting
Tagged AI, AI "art", bunnies, Easter, easter-bunny, Giant Easter Bunny, Google Gemini, LLM, Procedurally Generated Text, The Annual Tale of Woe, Zombie Easter Bunny
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Easter, Once More
Here we are again. Easter. The Day of the Dreadful Bunny comes once more. The tale, as I must tell it every year, is this: When I was a very small child, my parents hid a GIANT inflatable Easter Bunny … Continue reading
Posted in Questionable Parenting
Tagged bunnies, Easter, Library of Congress, The Annual Tale of Woe
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Everything’s Coming Up Bunnies
As is my annual Good Friday habit, it is once more time to revisit that Day of Infamy from my childhood, the moment of unadulterated terror in which I learned the hard way that Rabbits Are Not To Be Trusted, … Continue reading
Posted in dogs, Questionable Parenting, random stuff
Tagged dog costumes, dogs, Easter, Harvey's Tavern, humor, John Margolies
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Sunday Mornings With The Saturday Book: A Cabinet of Curiosities
Studying the table of contents for any given issue of The Saturday Book reveals a sort of consistent inconsistency. The publication’s founding editor, Leonard Russell, laid out a plan that included some essentials, but their inclusion was never tidy or … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Dilys Powell, Edwin Smith, John Hadfield, Leonard Russell, Olive Cook, The Saturday Book
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Sunday Mornings With The Saturday Book: Introduction
In the Before Times (back when I had the energy to update this blog more than once or twice a year) I had a notion that the blog itself was meant to function as a space for all of the … Continue reading
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Tagged books, miscellany, printing, publishing, random stuff, The Saturday Book
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Today in Names
Sometime in the early 1920s (per the Library of Congress Flickr Stream), a certain Prime Minister of Bavaria was photographed by someone at the Bain News Service, like so: It’s not an especially interesting or remarkable portrait, and he was … Continue reading
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Tagged names, photography, Supervillains
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The Annual Bunny Post Has Risen Indeed!
Once upon a time, there was a silly person who imagined that it would be the very easiest thing in the world to maintain a simple little blog — who reads those anymore, anyway, right? How hard could it be … Continue reading
Posted in Questionable Parenting, random stuff
Tagged bunnies, comedy, Easter, Mystery Wreath
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The Year of the Socially Isolating Rabbit
As my tiny group of regular readers knows very well by now, I have a little Easter tradition here on the ol’ blog: I tell The Story and (usually on Good Friday) post about a little hymn thing I like. … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations with Small Dogs, Questionable Parenting, Uncategorized
Tagged bunnies, cheesecake, Conversations with Small Dogs, dogs, Easter, Human Resources, music
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What’s Love Got To Do With It?
The best place to enter the linguistic and social-psychological rabbit hole this post is about to drag you down is with one of the best and most well-known XKCD cartoons — “Duty Calls” (#386): Recently, on Facebook, Duty Called upon … Continue reading
Posted in Library Business, Rant and Ramble, Uncategorized
Tagged Google, John Alan Lee, library and information science, library instruction, translation
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An Old Voice For A New Year
This is not a recap of the year. It is not a recap of the decade, or a Top Ten List of any kind. Instead, it’s a little bit of a look back at an earlier few decades, occasioned by … Continue reading
The Deaccessioned Philosopher 