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Banana Peels, White Wings, and Moby Dick
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March 12, 2022 by libroshombre

Eric Hoffer, the American longshoreman philosopher, noticed that “Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which …
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Category: art, books, classics, fruit, illustrations, illustrators, librarians, libraries, plants, public libraries, reference librarians, trash | Tags: bananas, Eric Hoffer, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, nix, phloems, Rockwell Kent, Vladimir Putin, White Wings
Doodah, Play-Doh, and Art
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April 28, 2019 by libroshombre

Here are three art-related questions for you involving music, sculpture, and painting: are smells and paint-by-number paintings really art, and …
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Category: art, libraries, music, race, racism, Uncategorized | Tags: Camptown, Dick Robbins, Noah McVicker, paint-by-number, Play-doh, Stephen Foster
Jackrabbits, Pecans, and Colophons
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March 28, 2019 by libroshombre

Reading in the newspaper about Dubai having “the largest artificial tree in the world” harkened me back to the first …
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Category: art, libraries, libraries and librarians, library catalogs, Uncategorized | Tags: colophon, Demetrius of Phaleron, Elba, jack rabbit, Nippur, pecan, Zenodotus of Ephesus.