Marian Wilson Kimber

“Reading Is Fun!”

The great Maurice Sendak’s poster for 1979’s International Year Of The Child.

LOL!🤣

This is good. It's also an entertaining read, but more than that, it's good.

OMG

We had water in our downstairs twice—called the disaster clean up people. They brought gigantic fans to dry everything and prevent mold. Maddeningly loud but it worked well.

Hey, internet. Cute pet photos needed. Do your thing.

I just showed this to my class on Monday as an example of the mess on the internet, pointing out that there is no Felix or Fanny book that makes this mistake,

Google does it again: This is not Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Cécile Jeanrenaud Mendelssohn painted by Eduard Magnus When Felix Mendelssohn fell head over heels in love while in Frankfurt in the summer of 1836, his sisters back in Berlin begged for informatio…

I point everyone to the incomparable @mwilsonkimber.bsky.social and her post marianwilsonkimber.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/g...

What the National Park Service Has Flagged Thus Far. It's Much Worse Than I Thought. Note: This is a long post.

I spent hours looking through hundreds of files of materials that have been flagged for review by National Park Service sites around the country. Here is just a small sample of what I found. #NationalParks 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty"

Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

We from Iowa apologize to the nation.

I’ve been showing my students the citations for the 5 fake articles on Florence Price that ChatGPT says I wrote.

Oh no. I think I have become this person

Share this article, because goodness knows some states, and definitely the federal gov't, are not going to make it easy to find this information.

Homepage Anthropic Copyright Settlement

My book (and a lot of other writing by me) was. There's still time to make a claim in the Anthropic settlement: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Read this. So good.

💐❤️ Hang in there.

There's a story about a countess who met Liszt and complained that his forehead was not as "high" as in his portraits. ("High" like "highbrow" and demonstrating his large mental capacity and genius.)

Outwardly calm but inwardly screaming.

damn what is wrong with me, i am having the hardest time concentrating on work, i lament as i compulsively refresh live feeds of unspeakable horrors

I will tell him!

"Fathers' Lullabies" and Other Songs About Maternal Mortality, 1865–1940 - Women's Song Forum Devoted to women's songs and voices

Chris Reynolds continues to provide amazing new research about women and song on the Women's Song Forum. Check out, "'Fathers’ Lullabies' and Other Songs About Maternal Mortality, 1865–1940." Bonus feature: a piece by my husband, the composer Michael Kimber.

www.womensongforum.org/2026/02/25/f...

It may have some redeeming qualities, I just don’t recall many…

I saw it years ago. This is all I remember: Irving gets into the competition because her teacher sends in a recording pretending to be her student. Dreyfus thinks if Irving beats him it will affect his prowess in bed. One competitor practices naked.

Crooked tunes from Québec; Laura Risk & Voices of Music YouTube video by Voices of Music

Crooked tunes from Québec; Laura Risk & Voices of Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9Fi...

Adella Prentiss Hughes - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adella_...

Absolute shocker of a rights grab - academics may want to push back hard

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I think you should all take your children to their offices.

The Duke of Wentworth YouTube video by Richard Knight

Dear #readers, I hope you enjoy watching The Duke of Wentworth, it’s a short film (8mins) 🍿and it is just what we need to bring a smile to us on a #Saturday 😁 it is funny and heartwarming 🥰

Location in the film is #Wentworth #Woodhouse in #SouthYorkshire .

youtu.be/1iyKOz9ID-U?...