This absurdly cute Tumblr features photos of cats “helping” their owners make zines, or just hanging out with zines. Not much more to say than that. Here is my contribution – my cat, Beverage, with Kim Sokol’s Bad Film Project zine.
This Tumblr presents fictional rough drafts of famous books, from Moby Dick to the Great Gatsby. It is good for many, many laughs. I like this one:
I don’t know about you, but I am always dropping my books in the bathtub, in soup, in the ocean, and so on. What about people who actually lose precious books due to actual catastrophes – hurricanes, floods or typhoons? This is an interesting little article from Heritage Preservation about how you can save your books when they get soaked, with videos to demonstrate each step.
Dangerous Minds blogger Marc Campbell wrote a post that highlights major points of his life with records. A highlight – he recounts trying to impress a girl in high school by putting on The Rolling Stones’ Not Fade Away. He writes:
“What followed was like a movie scene shot in slow motion. The dancing throng disassembled into dozens of individual fragments. Skirts swirled and wobbled like tops spinning to a stop. Arms went rigid. Legs went slack. Smiles fell from faces like limbs from lepers. I had hurled a turd squarely at the center of the punch bowl and landed a bullseye. Of course it wasn’t my intent to bring my first teen party to an awful thudding halt. I had misjudged the crowd. They wanted pablum. I gave them The Rolling Stones.”
Delightful!