I’m loving Lucy getting blood transfusions from each of her three suitors from a narrative construction perspective but I’m obsessed with Quincey going ‘wow the last time I saw blood loss this bad was when my horse got eaten by a vampire’ and absolutely no one follows up on that.
My late great grandmother kept a box of melted nails from her house as a memento from the Great Chicago Fire
forbidden rice krispy treat
@copperbadge, this just seemed like the kind of thing that you might find Neat
Oh, this is super cool! You don’t often see actual relics of the fire – I mean, for obvious reasons, but still. Generally speaking, because it was so complete and so long ago, there’s no physical evidence out kind of, you know, in the world, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen any kind of book or exhibit about the physical remains – just photographs that don’t mean much because they’re literally photographs of nothing, of “Where something once was.”
[ID: Sitting on a wooden table is a square block made of nails; they are all pressed together and intermingled, and the effect is indeed not unlike that of a rice krispy treat made of old timey nails.]
‘Our Town’s Libraries’ which I drew for the @nytimes recently… Speaking of libraries, I have a new book out titled REVENGE OF THE LIBRARIANS and I am visiting Brooklyn NY, Philadelphia PA, and Columbus OH with it in the next week. Visit tomgauld.com for details…
