Feeling like I was in (Emily Brontë’s) Wuthering Heights with last night’s LA weather.
18.02.2026 16:33
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Feeling like I was in (Emily Brontë’s) Wuthering Heights with last night’s LA weather.
Spam text of “Are you in your house for now?” With response of “no, I’m in yours”
I know I should report the spam and move along but…
My first-ever SHARP this summer was a grand time! Extra thanks to the organizers and to Malcolm Noble for his profile on my (first day, first slot) panel “Transforming Libraries.”
At least, in the last 20 minutes at my new local library branch, I’ve overheard 4 people (not including me!) sign up for their library cards.
oh to be this many years old living in LA and for it to just click that the number after the theater name refers to the number of screens
As Colleen captured, I was looking forward to presenting at my first #sharp2025 but I didn’t anticipate the serendipitous topic overlaps and the q&a that turned into a delightful discussion group!
thanks for capturing these! such a delight to be a part of this morning
Imagining a world in which I react like my parent’s small dog when it is time for a walk.
Watching the Vatican livestreams I want international romances to blossom among these crowds
Student in a sweatshirt points at, while another holds, folio illustrations of William Blake’s ‘Divine Comedy’ above a table in a library classroom.
“That’s our homie William! We ride!” overheard Blake during an undergrad special collections session on Dante’s Inferno
Plate of early modern pie shapes, showing how different pastry could be shaped in accordance with the type of pie. Carp pie is a small fish.
“Psychotherapy Pie” from Nava Peters’ “Secret Recipes for the Modern Wife,” where insecurities are the ingredients for a recipe on brightly colored spiral bound pages riffing on mid twentieth century US cookery.
Closeup of homemade beef curry hand pies, with a handmade lattice crust cherry pie on a blue and white towel in the background.
Colleague in cargo pants and green shirt with dark hair and glasses looks at an artists’ book with bold font of “food sex art” on a book rest. Two other people in dark clothing review materials in the foreground and background.
Pi(e) Day slices
can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
Protestors in Irvine, Orange County, California of all ages cross an intersection carrying Ukraine, US, and intersectional pride flags as well as handmade signage speaking out against the current US administration.
ok oc!!!
Overheard special collections instruction: “It’s crazy that this was all in newspapers. Like this would be on Instagram.”
the two drink in urge to go up to random bald men in Miami with “omg pitbull!!”
Materials from UC Irvine special collections & archives on a blue tablecloth background. Photographs and publications from a Chicano student organization, ephemera from faculty member Vicki Ruiz.
UC alumni in a blue jacket with shoulder-length brown hair and a Peter the Anteater badge smiles and points out herself in a 1995 MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlan) photo album to man with short white hair in a red gingham shirt and blue suit jacket.
Two brimming crates of lemons, with a sign reading “take some limones! Compliments from the Camarena Family (UCSD)”
A wearying time to be an Angeleno, a woman in the US, a human. Was resenting an early Saturday wake-up for an event, and yet. Latinx and Chicanx alumni finding themselves and their siblings in photos. Elders grateful for the preservation of the heritage. Homegrown citrus. Now a bright morning.
Hand illustrated frame of curled party ribbon with a short-haired couple in 1920s style toasts each other at the top of the frame. Sprinkled with confetti and party poppers, anthropomorphic champagne flutes and a bottle dance at the bottom of the frame.
New dream: host a New Year’s Eve Party that might live up to the fête this early 1930’s frame, designed by Irene Saltern Salinger, invites. From MS.P.059, UC Irvine Special Collections & Archives.
My holds up cover of “The I Hate to Cook Book: Appendix” with woman with blond hair reading a book and holding a can in background of a brightly light and book filled shop.
Back hinge of book open, with portrait of Peg Bracken facing a handwritten recipe card for “Fruit Cocktail Cake” found upon opening it.
Was looking for slices of good-lumpia, free beverages, and a few book purchases including Peg Bracken’s follow-up to her 1960 work (which I found at a half price books few years back) with a pal made for a lovely Friday eve at a local bookshop fête.
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Page of Capella’s 1499 ‘De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii’ with astrological retranscribed in the margins.
western astrology girlies at it since at least 1499
Someone I babysat once upon a time just posted “the vitriol coming from the left is astonishing” and it’s not worth holding up the mirror it’s not worth holding up the mirror it’s
Two students collaborate on an observational workshop while reviewing an early modern book of geography.
Engraved frontispiece and title page of a 1602 ‘Le gratie d'amore’ on dance costuming, next to a custom sticker celebrating Week of Italian Language in the World.
Pair of students review a copy of ‘Come vi piace’ (As You Like It) with brightly colored illustrations, in this case a red dress, by Salvador Dali as they fill out their worksheets.
In the foreground a student turns pages of Orlando Furioso, with flashes of the green, yellow, and blue pastedown marbling made visible. In the background student reviews a 1602 copy of Vesalius’ ‘Anatomia.’
Scenes from our recent sessions with first-quarter Italian students celebrating the Week of Italian Language in the World.
reader, some things never change
From our 1989-1990 Special Collections report: “The Department’s principal concerns focus on (1) space (already inadequate for both its collections and its staff); (2) money (its book fund allocation is inadequate); and (3) staff (with additional support needed especially to aid in ms. processing)🫠
This Series is also about which city sells the most caps to tourists.
Assortment of UFW pins. UCI MS.R.015
Photographs taken for ‘El Malcriado,’ including one of Cesar Chavez, a UFW boycott bumpers sticker, and a ‘Why we boycott’ brochure.
Selection of signs and brochures produced by, and in support of, the UFW.
UCI undergraduate Summer 2024 Digital Humanities Fellow poster by Gisele Valdovinos documenting family legacy in the UFW.
A selection of UFW materials we shared during a pop-up prior to the on-campus screening of ‘A Song for Cesar’ last night. Lovely to table next to current student work all while alumni reminisced about campus life, activism, and their own work in the fields.
I was wondering why all the activity from cool looking folks on my profile, should’ve known you would have something to do with it!💫
Who needs alarm clocks when there’s quakes!
Do aspiring actors answer telemarketers with screams or tears?
Um so spf number doesn’t mean the number of minutes after which you need to reapply?!