Four Stories From Today's New York Times

Posted on November 04, 2008 at 08:03 AM

  1. Who has a better sense of humor: liberals or conservatives?
  2. Obama will not answer whether he likes boxers or briefs (with good reason)
  3. While the life of novelist Carolyn Chute is by no means typical of people who live in northern New England, reading this profile reminded me a little bit of home
  4. A collection of classic disease-warning posters

Also, this story wasn't in the NYT, but Obama won in Dixville Notch and Hart's Location, NH. Residents of these two tiny towns have historically voted at midnight and closed polls early. This is the first time they've voted for a democrat since 1968.

Tags: newyorktimes obama humor newengland art

Hygiene for the Worker

Posted on August 04, 2008 at 04:26 PM

book cover

One of my best used-book finds ever was a copy of 1912's Hygiene for the Worker, a book published to help young men and women become happy, healthy, and unquestioning factory-laborers. The book is wonderful in so many ways. The illustrations are simultaneously delightful and creepy, the language is charmingly outdated, and the lessons in the book attempt to create a race of scrubbed-clean, milk-drinking super employees who spend their vacations at home "laying up a greater store of health and energy than the young people who come back tired and weary from having too good a time at the mountains and other regular summer resorts."

test each nostril

I love Hygiene for the Worker a lot, and thus I was pleased to recently discover that it has been digitized by Google Books. I highly recommend taking a skim through this hilariously outdated, yet sometimes disturbingly pertinent book.

Tags: book hygiene for the worker history art humor

Dumping Ground of Links

Posted on May 13, 2008 at 07:29 AM

A blog that switches the heads of kids and dads. Amazing. [Via Boing Boing]

How to Succeed in the Music Biz, by Erykah Badu. [TSOYA]

How to Eat a Cupcake. Moreover, how to cook one. The strawberry buttercream frosting recipe is incredible.

Thomas Doyle's Miniature Art. [Via CRAFT]

Cat Clowns. [From Nat]

Tags: links humor video art cats

This Weekend: Art Star Craft Bazaar!

Posted on June 01, 2007 at 06:01 AM

This Saturday and Sunday, the Art Star Craft Bazaar is overtaking Liberties Walk (1030 N. 2nd St.) in Philadelphia. You should come! There will be about 100 artists and craftspeople hocking their wares (myself included), various workshops, and on Saturday some rock music will be starting around 4:30. The hours for the bazaar are 11-7 on Saturday and 11-5 on Sunday. For more information on the workshops and artists, check out the Craft Bazaar's webpage.

Tags: events gladysmakesthings art craft philadelphia