Hilary Booth... of course!

Sports Illustrated has opened a huge free archive of its articles and covers from 1958 down through the ages. Where was this years ago when I doing skating research?

For future reference: Sports Illustrated February 13, 1961 and the cover article "Mother Set the Style". Painful article on Laurence Owen, 1961 US figure skating champion. Laurence, her mother and sister and the rest of the US team were killed in a plane crash outside Brussels, Belgium on the way to the World championships. The crash wiped out a whole generation of US skaters, coaches, and officials.

Eplans - lovely resource of floor plans and house styles for all your needs, including plotting that locked room mystery or Victorian ghost story.

"In David Simon's version of Dante's Inferno, Hell is played by Baltimore and all seven of the deadly sins are doing just fine, thanks.": I came across this article on HBO's "The Wire" while in the Power Plant B&N while I was in Baltimore. I picked up the EW for the Project Runway article to read with my bagel. Since I seem to stick so many of my books in Charm City, it was a catchy quote, I scribbled it down and then I read the byline. (Don't tell my mother I quoted him. She'll lord it over me for months.)

If I have any delusions of finishing that assassin story, I'll need these tonight, mostly for the different mask descriptions.

http://www.delpiano.com/carnival/html/venice_car.html

http://www.twistedimage.com/productions/carnivale/

http://www.carnivalofvenice.com/index.asp?lang=UK

One of my parents' favorite restaurants in Arlington, Mediterranee, appears to have burned down over the Thanksgiving weekend. Fortunately no one was hurt. My parents liked the place but I never did, mainly because I'm too picky an eater for that type of cuisine. Too many sauces and etceteras.

researchbuzz had a fascinating link today with Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts, including a seperate page on Germanic folklore.

Work is progressing fairly smoothly. I've gone from being the sole person responsible for checking in materials to one of three. The fourth one handles some of the shelving and runs around to local libraries with requests. But the extra people is a Good Thing, imho, since the firm receives a massive amount of mail on a regular basis. They do have a regular looseleaf filer, so I don't have those duties anymore. As much as I enjoyed the break from staring at the computer, the sheer volume would have overwhelmed me in this setting.

However I do get to know the joys of the pocket parts. For the uninitiated, those are the small little supplements tucked in the back of books, mostly legal treatises and codes. When the new set comes in, I have to go the shelf, take out the old pps and stuff in the new ones. Hopefully all of the set will be intact and not scattered into so many attorney's offices. We have an equally large Twilight Zone of pps waiting to be matched with their volumes once they are returned to the shelf.

Writing has slowed to standstill other than finishing off a fanfic piece that had been plaguing me since before Nano. I'm trying to do a novel concept for the CVS meeting by actually reading the monthly writing book, Fiction First Aid.

My local needlework store, Needlewoman East, was having their Christmas in July sale these last few days with everything in the store 25%, so I was able to gather up most of the supplies for my next project. I still have to find the fabric and beads, but I'm a little bit closer. The shop is more oriented towards needlepoint, but it's friendly. It's also down the block from a wonderful used book shop.

I can safely say that the Library of Congress's new "Ask a Librarian" feature works. I had actually made a second pulp fiction collection request, but it had come back as not being on the shelf. I thought maybe it hadn't been microfilmed yet. So I emailed the LC "Ask a Librarian" with my question. They found the reels and they're now on reserve for me for 7 days. So back to the Rabbit hole... er, the Jefferson building... it was pretty bad when one of the library staff, when asked about finding your way in that building, suggested reading "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" first.