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- Baby & Kid & Person Gifts – Part 1
- California Map Society & Stanford Lecture Series Notes
- It’s 2017…
- Nunavut!
- Finding the way…
- Cartoon of Quebec’s Little Boy
- Hand Maps
- Quebed
- A Piece of Imperial Pie
- Expansion vs. Isolation
- Anthropological Mash-up
- Mash-Up: Ladies & Fashion & Shite, 1732-2016
- Swipes #49: Thorny Situations
- Swipes #48: History repeats itself repeatedly
- Stanford University Field Trip
- If you find yourself in Chicago this month…
- Rich Thoughts
- Zines & Comics
- Thanksgiving Post
- A Lament on Academic Spec Work: * Cry Cry *
- Everything you never wanted to know about parenting
- Remembering 13 September 1759
- Celebrating Six Years of Friendship, or That Time I Made a Friend at the O-Train Station
- Giving Birth in a Baby-Unfriendly Hospital
- Guest Post: Jillian Klean Zwilling on Feminism
- Hiatus
- Norman Rockwell Swipes
- California Map Society Conference, May 2015: “Ghosts of Former Indigenous Inhabitants of Stanford University”
- California Map Society Conference, May 2015: Branner Library Tour
- California Map Society Conference, May 2015: “Opening Up the Data Vault”
- California Map Society Conference, May 2015: “Ancient Orientations”
- California Map Society Conference, May 2015: “The Arbuckle Illustrated Atlases”
- “Everything and everyone serves history’s single purpose.”
- Swipes #47: Land Grabbing
- Part V: John Bull & Uncle Sam, Frenemies
- Monsters, Part 6: Laocoon
- Monsters, Part 5: Slimy, Serpentine Stephen Harper
- Happy Constitution Day, Poland!
- Monsters, Part 4: Dismemberment & Bugs
- Monsters, Part 3: Just your standard anthropomorphic snake post
- Monsters, Part 2: Two-headed Creatures (and more!)
- Monsters, Part 1: Hydra Round-up
- The Many-Headed Hydra: Monstrous Representations of Canadian Confederation and the American Civil War in Cartoons, 1861-1867
- Now & Then / Then & Now
- Maps: They Don’t Love You Like I Love You
- What is a geographer?
- What is an American, anyhow?
- April Fooling in Map Form
- Colossus (Part III)
- Swipes?
- Part IV: John & Jonathan, BFFFL
- Ireland Carto-Caricatures (Map Cartoons)
- Colossus (Part II)
- Colossus (Part I)
- Swipes #46: Ice Floes
- Draw the Shape of the Bay @ The Exploratorium in SF
- “There’s no reason why the simple shapes of stories can’t be fed into computers.”
- Prohibition & Other Booze-y Cartoons
- Composting 101, or “Stop thinking and just compost!”
- Vaccines: Not Turning Humans Into Cows Since Always
- “Self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France”
- Canadian Studies Talk at Berkeley on February 11
- Swipes #45: Turning Tail(s)
- Notes from Nelson Graburn’s talk on “Canadian Inuit Art”
- San Mateo County History Museum recap
- JE SUIS CHARLIE?
- Just another four chord song…
- Apologies, Round 2
- JE SUIS CHARLIE
- Apologies (Belatedly)
- Baby New Year!
- “All students do is stand around looking casual.”
- Christmas Panopticon
- Cave Paintings
- It’s a plane! It’s a car! It’s a… really large shoe?
- NEH Day 1: “Mapping Nature Across the Americas”
- Srsly?
- Shaking Down the Provinces
- ‘Tis the season to be generous
- Swipes #44: Disputed Waterways
- It’s not Thanksgiving in Canada (or “appalling ignorance”)
- Canada: America’s Hat?
- It depends on how you look at it… (Part Four of Many)
- Swipes #43: Me-ow
- It depends on how you look at it… (Part Two of Many)
- Remembrance Day
- Happy Birthday, A.J.M. Smith
- It depends on how you look at it… (Part One of Many)
- Dress Codes, Round 2
- Happy Halloween!
- What Goes Around Comes Around: The Cyclical Nature of Political History
- Shop Locally
- Speech Balloons & Thought Bubbles
- Part III: John Bull & Uncle Sam, a friendship to the end
- Policy Brief on Canada-U.S. Education Initiatives
- Part II: Representations of UK & US Cooperation
- Part I: Representations of the US & UK
- Representations of British Imperial Expansion
- Representations of US Imperial Expansion
- Hats off (and on)
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Monthly Archives: July 2013
Rules 4 Life: Bossy pants, bossy blogs (1/2)
Everybody’s so bossy with their Rules for Life and How to This and That… but I’m a sucker for lists! So today, I offer you some tips and suggestions from bossy people who undoubtedly know better than I how to … Continue reading
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Thanks, everybody, for following along with my zany adventures in research and procrastination for all these years. :-)
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Read a ****ing book
Astute readers and those familiar with my affinity for the coarser aspects of the English (and most other) language(s) will doubtless surmise / probably guess what the asterisks in the title of this post stand for, and I highly recommend … Continue reading
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Baby Talk
Read an article, “The babies we don’t care about today,” by Laurie Penny (via KB & JG on FB), who wrote: Of all future subjects of our new infant overlord, none are more scapegoated than teenage single mums. Let’s not … Continue reading
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Whee-search
Seriously, I don’t know how people did research before the Internet. It must have been TEDIOUS. Respect and props to everyone who has actually cut images out of the encyclopedia with scissors and used a typewriter (third grade was good … Continue reading
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Conservation Conversations & Quandaries (4/4)
In the spirit of Roderick Haig-Brown, I was inspired to share some thoughts on trees from Emily Carr. I’m having difficulty locating her cartoon, “The Inartistic Alderman and the Realistic Nightmare,” but came across the caption readily enough: Ye ghosts … Continue reading
Conservation Conversations & Quandaries: “Parrots, the Universe and Everything” (3/4)
In the spirit of Roderick Haig-Brown, I’m inspired to share a few comments on conservation from Douglas Adams. Part the Third, in which the dolphins disappear. Douglas Adams gave a great talk about conservation entitled “Parrots, the Universe and Everything.” … Continue reading
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Sitting in the library on a Saturday
Woe is me. I’m comfortably seated in the wonderful, window-full, sun-spackled Bellevue Library reading a book, but all I want to do while reading this book for review is browse through and read other books. Some titles that are calling … Continue reading
Pick a side – follow up
Just when I thought things couldn’t get much stranger than they already were… The wonderful Joseph Kerski passed this along to a geography mailing list of which I am (happily) a member. — It’s been a busy week of posting, … Continue reading
Conservation Conversations & Quandaries: The Trees Don’t Make the Cut (2/4)
In the spirit of Roderick Haig-Brown, I’m inspired to share a few comments on conservation from an exchange with KB. Part the Second, in which the trees don’t make the cut. My good friend KB researches, among other things, trees. … Continue reading
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