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Digitized issues of the Washington Blade 1969-1982 are now online in Dig DC!
The collection contains digital editions of the historic LGBT newspaper from its first decade and is presented in ongoing digitization partnership between DCPL Special Collections and the Blade. Additional years from the Blade archives will added to Dig DC as scanning and description are completed.
The next in our series of Library Basement shows at MLK Library is coming up - Thursday, December 4, 2014 at 6pm. In continued celebration of the new DC Punk Archive in Special Collections/Washingtoniana, we’re having our second show in the library basement. Learn more about the project at dclibrary.org/punk Does your band want to play the library? Let us know! Fill out this form:http://goo.gl/FubB5g (Must be eligible for a DC Public Library card to play) PRIESTS http://priests.bandcamp.com/ http://666priests666.tumblr.com/ BLOCKHEAD Snotty Washington, DC hardcore taking cues from classic Socal punk featuring members of 86 Mentality and half of Crispus Attucks. This quartet of frustrated 30+ punks rebel against condos, yuppies and all forms of authority. NOX http://www.nox-dc.com/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Nox/340423539366000 The show will be over by 8:30pm because the library closes at 9pm so don’t be late! And as always, this show is all ages and free (it’s the library!)
The next program in the DC Punk Archive series is tomorrow at Mt Pleasant Neighborhood Library, 6:30pm
http://dclibrary.org/node/45242
My buddy texted this to me today from philly. Library looove!
When [documentarian James] Schneider contacted DCPL, Casto says, he said he’d come across various punk collections in people’s houses while making his in-progress documentary with Paul Bishow, and some of those pieces of the past could be in danger of being lost. It seemed like a smart idea to house vulnerable objects like flyers, records and photographs in a venue that was both secure and accessible to the public. Casto, of course, agreed. “That’s the gospel of preservation: making sure these things don’t disappear,” she says.
- D.C. Punk: From Your Basement To D.C. Public Library, Ally Schweizer
Great write up on our D.C. Punk Archives project from bandwith!
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"I understand that ‘uptown’ is a compliment- we still don’t refer to women as ‘uptown bitches’ in the library."
Lindsay and I had met once, and then she moved from D.C. to New York to write about music for a living, which she does in a way that speaks right to my heart. Especially since she got to interview Damon Albarn. I trust her opinion and her voice; she is such a great writer with so much...
Happy Bike to Work day! Here are some vintage bike things to brighten a rainy DC commmute.
Clockwise from upper left: Rex Smith bikes down the Capitol steps, circa 1890; members of the Capitol Bicycle Club at their 919 G St NW clubhouse, circa 1882; the insignia of the Capitol Bicycle Club, founded in 1879
These images and more from our Washingtoniana Collection are can be seen in “Cycling in Washington DC in the 19th Century” an exhibit currently up in the great hall of MLK Library.
Join us today, Tuesday, May 20 at 7:00pm in the Great Hall at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library for an evening with Walter Mosley as he discusses his latest book Debbie Doesn’t Do It Anymore. Following this presentation Mr. Mosley will be available to sign his book. Copies will also be available for purchase at the event courtesy of our partners at Politics and Prose.
DCPL librarians are hard at work behind the scenes of the Carnegie Library at Mt. Vernon Square in this Washingtoniana Collection photo from 1908. The building now houses the The Historical Society of Washington, D.C., but the central public library branch occupied the historic building from 1903 to 1972, when the much larger Martin Luther King JR. Memorial Library was completed.
Speaking of which… have you weighed in on the future of MLK yet??
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Friday, February 21st In Crust We Trust: a pizza themed open mic and zine reading @ Friends Meeting of Washington (2111 Fl Ave NW) 8pm $3 suggested donation fb flier
Over at Book Riot, I created this time line to black historical fiction in YA lit (with some middle grade lit, with explanation as to why at the link).
There is so much worth thinking about here, beyond just what is out there and available.
You know I love some graphic RA materials, and this one says a lot.
Obsessed with reading this paper.
PUNK ARCHIVIST: THE HIDDEN SIGNIFICANCE OF PRESERVING PUNK CONCERT EPHEMERA.
. DC Punk Archive preparation under way.
who is this mysterious dru guy? we were talking about you at a house show and this weird guy butted in and said "spoonboy would be nothing without dru". he said, dru is the Engels to spoonboy's Marx. is that true?
yes, absolutely. it’s like they say, “behind every great man, there is dru.”dru is the source of most of my worldly knowledge, both true and untrue. imagine a level 10 safety mage, if you will, born of wizardly intelligence, a chaotic neutral troll witch (or trollwich, as dru might say), an expert in the ways of the world. among other things, dru has shown me how to construct a pomtini ass luge as well as how to identify each of the 2,700 species of worms on this planet by sight. we also share a room.
imagine dru, mostly nude, sitting high on the rocks above a babbling brook in the middle of a redwood forest, looking down at you and smiling, saying “free your mind, square…” and you will have some sense of what it is to know dru. there is no one i would rather have along on an adventure.
yep.
wait a second, this “weird guy” you speak of… he didn’t look anything like THIS did he:
in which case, you should probably believe anything he says unconditionally.
what a terrible picture of me. thanks dru and david.
Gem from Nate powell. Wish i had a million dollars to spend here. Happy place. (at Small Press Expo (SPX))
STAB YER DAD PATCH DESIGN #4: "BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER" by Ruby Stone i present to you: the patch design for the fourth and final runner up in the stab yer dad t-shirt design contest, “buffy the vampire slayer!" here’s what ruby had to say about it:
"I’m not sure if you watched Buffy ever, but it’s this cult show about this teenage girl who’s a vampire slayer. It’s totally cheesy but amazingly done. I identify with her on a weird level and she’s just a really strong kid. Her dad totally abandoned the family when she was younger and blamed it on her and when her mom died he was in Spain and wouldn’t even return her calls and left her to take care of herself and her little sister, Dawn. I just thought she would be a good representative of the stab yer dad club!"
i’ve actually watched the show here and there ever since it was on the air, and i’ve always found myself surrounded by huge buffy fans, but i’ve never seen it all the way through. (i did sample it on the papas though). i’ve always had the impression that the premise of the show, and especially the OG buffy the vampire slayer movie was meant to subvert a stereotype about women, particularly the “valley girl" stereotype, as weak and defenseless by portraying a tough ass vampire slaying cheerleader as the protagonist. i haven’t really watched enough of the series to comment on that though, so i thought i’d call in my current resident buffy expert and dear friend, pierce mcclain:
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer is my favorite TV show of all time not called the Simpsons. When thinking about the series as a whole, I often find myself personifying it in my head. I literally think about BtVS the way I would think about a friend. It’s quite fitting actually. Much like a human being, the show is a really complicated tableau full of contradictions (political and otherwise) and quirks. The only firm stance the show takes is this: humans are worth saving and this daily fight we find ourselves in is worth fighting; some days will end with us balled up in a corner crying, overwhelmed by the weight of how shitty this world can be, but we wake up tomorrow and keep fighting for what and whom we believe in. When it comes to how the show presents masculinity and patriarchy, there is a ton to be said. If you really want to delve into it, I recommend seeking out the numerous chapters in books and the wealth of academic criticism that has been written on the subject. I will focus on one tiny aspect of the show. The men in Buffy’s life constantly think they know what is best for Buffy. They attempt to impose their will on her body and her day to day life and slaying decisions. These characters come from a background of entitlement and an upbringing that tells them they are inherently more intelligent and clear-headed than women. These guys who are some of “the good ones" feel no guilt in asserting their control. After all, they do have Buffy’s best interests in mind. Buffy, however, does not put up with this bullshit. “What gives you the right," she asks her friend Xander after one of the many times he has meddled in her love life. “You stuck a needle in me, you poisoned me. I don’t know you," she tells Giles (the closest thing to a father Buffy has) after he has briefly taken her slayer abilities away for the purpose of a Watcher’s Council (read: patriarchy) ritual. Buffy seizing control of the decisions in her life, even when she’s not entirely confident a decision is the correct one, is a consistently inspiring event on the show. I urge you to share Buffy with the young people in your life. When I discovered the show at the age of 17, it was a revelation. It was the strongest cultural reinforcement in my life to that point that it is okay to feel really, truly different. It got me thinking about gender issues in a way that nothing else had before. Falling in love with the show and its stories and characters was the beginning of me realizing that I had nothing invested in traditional masculinity. To take it a step further, the show encouraged me to trust my instinct to outright detest traditional masculinity and its pervasive destruction. Above all though, it stresses that nobody can get by in this world alone. We must cherish and respect the human connections in our lives. And hey, it never hurts to hug your friends and tell them how much you love them."
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