1920s newspaper writing is sublime: "Leon Kauffer, the careless guest who left the be-diamonded apple in a open valise for the modern Eve to find, is now a guest of the police..."
Andrea Kaston Tange
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Victorianist & lit professor, gardener, lover of quirky details. Writing sporadically at https://andreakastontange.com
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ESPECIALLY if you also risked the Wrath of the Monki by cleaning out his lair. "So that's where my lava lamp was! I haven't seen it in years," says your 21yo.
I'm pretty sure it's a rule that if you're the person who takes every single thing out of the large entryway closet, sorts out donations/rubbish/things still wanted, vacuums & organizes everything, then you get to keep the $10.25 in various bills/coinage lurking in the to-be-donated pockets.
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I'm pretty sure it's a rule that if you're the person who takes every single thing out of the large entryway closet, sorts out donations/rubbish/things still wanted, vacuums & organizes everything, then you get to keep the $10.25 in various bills/coinage lurking in the to-be-donated pockets.
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I'm okay leaving off the "Beach," since I'm trying hard to preserve the 1920s town names. Wherever they appear as Cocoanut Grove, Daytona (no Beach), &c. I'm not modernizing, though I do where I'm not quoting. But it's true I could write [Pompano].
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1926 newspaper, on the hurricane: "Miami is smashed, Coral Gables is wrecked, Hollywood is badly hurt, while Fort Lauderdale, Dania and Pofpano are virtually leveled.” Would you [sic] the "Pofpano" or write "Po[m]pano"? I'm not sure readers outside the area would know what "Pofpano" was a typo for.
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Hurrah!
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Meanwhile, here in Maine, AI crawlers have rendered the server that manages our statewide interlibrary loan unreachable by legitimate attempts to pass through requests/information
Again, but louder: the server can’t be reached by libraries and the folks trying to use them BECAUSE OF AI CRAWLERS.
Gavin, you massive disappointment, what are you doing??
(I mean, I know what you're doing, but I need you to stop)
How many educators did you talk to when you made this decision? Oh, none, you say? Ohhhh this is for presidential donations, you say?
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My grad school friends called MacGuyver, because I can fix almost anything around the house with whatever's at hand. (I would bring a toolbox with me to get a head-start.)
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Writing is finding glossy pamphlets advertising the allure of Miami in 1926, which inadvertently confusing great fun at the beach with one girl positively decking another. It is trying not to laugh. And failing all afternoon.
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