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Showing posts with label Link. Show all posts

Calling In Sick

It's one of those days. Rainy, chilly, dark... I'm sick, the wife is sick and the baby is sick.

I'm calling in today, but I wanted to leave you with something to read. Here's a favorite bookmark of mine, originally posted in November 2010:



Dear Jennie Are you going to get married, you my dearest friend?

You can read the rest of the letter here.

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Young Lady in Manhattan

Some of you might have caught this article on Gawker, or perhaps the Huffington Post, or even the Daily Mail - "Young Lady in Manhattan." Yes, that reddit user was me. Thought you all might enjoy reading it as well, I've scanned in the first 13 pages, more than what is posted on those sites. Here's the link to the gallery I created.



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Odds and Sods

I hope to put up a bookmark later in the day, but wanted to post a few things first.

I'm thrilled to see Forgotten Bookmarks showing up in so many places. A sample:

Etsy: The Storque

Ephemera

Languagehat

James Frey's blog

Casual Optimist

The Genealogue

Snopes and Bookcrossing forums

and many, many more... can't tell you what it means to see so many people enjoying the site.

Don't want to just toot my horn here, so here's a submission from FB friend Jan Markley. I recently posted her find 'Open Toed Shoes.' Here's what she sends along:

Bringing Pagans togeather (sic) since 2001

These are the bookmarks I left in my friend Amber's copy of Death Masks by Jim Butcher when I returned it to her. Upon a recent visit to a hospital to visit a relative I went across the street to have a hamburger at the Wendy's restaurant chain where I proceeded to infiltrate a meeting of local Pagans (aka wiccans, wizards, witches, werewolves - well, maybe not the last one). How did I know they were Pagans? Three guys were sitting at a table with a sign that said: "Pagan meeting here." So being a writer, anthropologist, and incredibly curious person who now talks to strangers, I couldn't pass up the opportunity. Upon closer observation I noticed that each one wore a pentagram necklace. So I crashed their meeting (me: so you're like a bunch of Pagans eh?!) and I asked if I could join them.

So the bookmarks left in her book included a business card from Logan Stardust, Organizer - Bringing Pagans togeather (sic) since 2001, a hospital visitor infomation card, which on one side I scribbled down the names of the fantasy books the Pagan's recommended to me, and on the other side is a fundraising ad for the hospital foundation.

The Pagans nearly mugged me out for my friend's copy of Death Masks by Jim Butcher.




Another blog talks about bookmarks

From Anecdotal Evidence: A blog about the intersection of books and life.

Must read:

On our favorite subject, may I present Michael Atkinson.