Item #1 – A History of Wonderful Animals… Just finished Maritime List 239 – WET PAPER: Part 1, which went up on the website this morning. It was a list of nothing but maritime ephemera. (Wet Paper. Get it?) By lunch time it was half sold. When I started out to be a bookseller in […] More >>
Archives for August 2016
Tomato Concerns
Four days in Albuquerque hanging with the amazing moms of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America (and a few dads as well) learning advocacy, legislation, organizing, recruiting, media outreach, and lots more. Home tonight, then New York next week for a big appraisal. Who’s gonna eat my tomatoes while I’m gone? More >>
Queer Theory
Let’s have a rally in Washington! We’ll give ourselves a few weeks to plan and organize it, and we’ll raise money for it on Facebook. We’ll wait until Congress leaves town for summer recess, and then we’ll hold our rally on the afternoon of one of the hottest days of the summer, on reclaimed marshland […] More >>
A Mystery for Booksellers to Solve
Okay, I admit it. This week I got nothin’. I’ve been distracted working on my book, and watering all those thirsty lawns and gardens (“perfect summer” = drought), and taking bike rides, and working on the Maud archive at the Maud/Olson Library and, oh yes, writing up the next maritime list. The last one, you […] More >>