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Radiator Comics

@RadiatorComics

Dec 15

We're amped to add the 5 most recent issues of The East Village Inky by

to our catalog! Ayun's writing is engaging, funny, and incredibly charming as she gives you a tour of her kitchen, or reviews each NYC museum in a sentence or two, etc! radiatorcomics.com/series/the-eas

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Dec 17

Take 2 mandrakes and call me in the morning: a 15th-Century, illustrated herbal medicine manuscript. openculture.com/2022/12/behold via

#alternativemedicine #herbs

Behold a 15th-Century Italian Manuscript Featuring Medicinal Plants with Fantastical Human Faces

No matter where you may stand on herbal medicine as a viable 21st-century option, it’s not hard to imagine we’d have all been true believers back in the 15th-century. In an article for Heart Views,...

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Dec 14

Holiday Stress Busters in Book and Zine Form! Give the gift of real mail in a lavishly rubber stamped envelope mailchi.mp/af523ef09914/h #lastminutegift #zines #books

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Dec 13

I'm so chuffed that

@RadiatorComics

is now stocking the East Village Inky. Speaking of stockings, who doesn't love #comics (and #zines!) in theirs come Crimbus? GET YOU SOME! PS Here is but a fraction of the illustrious company I'm keeping. radiatorcomics.com

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Dec 6

A bit of personal history rolled up in a whole buncha boogie.... Shake it! openculture.com/2022/12/the-un via

#Dance #LGBTQ #History

The Untold Story of Disco and Its Black, Latino & LGBTQ Roots

As a white Midwestern child of the ‘70s, I received two messages loud and clear: disco was a breathtakingly glamorous, sexy urban scene, and “disco sucks.” Culturally, the latter prevailed. It was...

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Dec 2

Deep cut,

@umlautilde

! We miss you!

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Dec 2

Chemist Alice Ball pioneered a leprosy treatment at 23, died at 24, & her graduate advisor took her credit. Someone should write a song! openculture.com/2022/12/the-ch via

@CharmingDisastr

#BlackHistory #WomenInSTEM

The Chemist Alice Ball Pioneered a Treatment for Leprosy in 1915–and Then Others Stole the Credit...

It's bittersweet whenever a pioneering, long overlooked female scientist is finally given the recognition she deserves, especially so when the scientist in question is a person of color.

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Nov 30

A 57-year-old donkey lover's kind of donkey show... bookandfilmglobe.com/film/movie-rev #MovieReview

@BookFilmGlobe

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Nov 28

Meet Honey Lantree, Trailblazing '60s Drummer! I hope someone makes a movie about her, but fictionalized for dramatic effect b/c she seemed pretty even-keeled about the whole experience & her life seemed mostly normal. openculture.com/2022/11/meet-h via

#drummer

Meet Honey Lantree, the Trailblazing 1960s Female Drummer

Quick, who’s your favorite female drummer? Hardly a strange question! (Yes, you are allowed to pick more than one favorite.) Things were decidedly different when drummer Honey Lantree, the only...

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Attention Vonnegut Lovers! I’m returning to the Hoosier homelands on 11/19 to lead a free collaborative Kurt Vonnegut Centennial Fanzine workshop. LONESOME NO MORE! ##vonnegut##zine##author##booktok

Nov 17

I don't know how to Tik OR Tok but I'm thinking of leaving one platform where I don't cause many ripples for another platform where I won't cause many ripples.

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Ayun Halliday on TikTok

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Nov 16

THANKS to you, we hit our goal!!!! youtu.be/XuRwRfp8l9Q via

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Creative, Not Famous Activity Book for Small Potatoes!

Nov 15

69 crowdfunding hours to go! I'm hunching that # will yield at least one donation. Possibly even a donation of $211, so I'll stop NPR-pledgedriving your ayusses in re: Creative, Not Famous Activity Book for Small Potatoes! kickstarter.com/projects/micro #FinishTheJob #fun #creativity

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Ayun Halliday is back with a juicy, weird workbook bursting with opportunities for creative expression.

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in backing Creative, Not Famous Activity Book for Small Potatoes! on

Creative, Not Famous Activity Book for Small Potatoes!

And there's only a few days left. Would love to see this get published.

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Oct 30

CREATIVE, NOT FAMOUS asked if we could give it a little sibling and we did! This juicy weird bun comes out of the oven in January. Be the first to meet baby: kickstarter.com/projects/micro

@Microcosmmm

#creativity #Assignment #newbook

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Nov 11

HAPPY KURT VONNEGUT DAY! 100 years young. Went crate digging for songs inspired by his work. Have a listen, babies! openculture.com/2022/11/celebr via

#NewMusic #KurtVonnegut

@SweetSoubrette

@BushwickBkClub

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supernaturalhistory.backerkit.com/community_shar #NewMusic

Nov 10

Proud to be the 267th 😎 on

@BackerKit

for Super Natural History: Charming Disaster album + oracle deck. Thanks

@charmingdisastr

supernaturalhistory.backerkit.com

Proud to be the 267th

on @BackerKit for Super Natural History: Charming Disaster album + oracle...

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Nov 10

Holler to my #mushroom people! And all you overlooked 19th century female artists & scientists! openculture.com/2022/11/a-stun via

#womeninSTEM

A Stunning, Hand-Illustrated Book of Mushrooms Drawn by an Overlooked 19th Century Female Scientist

Mushrooms have quietly become superstars of the global stage. Sure, not everyone likes them on pizza, but who cares?

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Join

at the #NYSocietyLibrary for a #KurtVonnegutCentennial #zine workshop! 11/11

@11AM

>> bit.ly/3ULX9ut

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Nov 1

Day of the Dead remembrance for all the small potatoes who've gone before...100yr old scrapbooks of artists’ death notices at the

@metmuseum

, tended to by

@JimMoske

openculture.com/2022/10/famous via

#DayoftheDead #smallpotatomanifesto #arthistory

FAMOUS ARTIST DIES PENNILESS AND ALL ALONE: The Met Museum’s Fascinating Archive of Artists’ Death...

Oh to go behind the scenes at a world class museum, to discover treasures that the public never sees.

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Oct 31

East Village Inky, Kurt Vonnegut, & MORE Small Potatoes! - mailchi.mp/800c3c6bae44/e #zines #amreading #creativity

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Oct 30

CREATIVE, NOT FAMOUS asked if we could give it a little sibling and we did! This juicy weird bun comes out of the oven in January. Be the first to meet baby: kickstarter.com/projects/micro

@Microcosmmm

#creativity #Assignment #newbook

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Oct 30

Couples Halloween costume idea: Judith and Holofernes as envisioned (multiple times!) by Artemisia Gentileschi (If you've got a baby or a 3rd wheel, they can go as Judith's maidservant. openculture.com/2022/10/an-int via

#halloweencostume #arthistory

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Oct 20

I've learned (& forgotten) so much in my twice weekly assignments for

. Here's my first post, dated 10/8/2012. Proud it's been shared over 3000 times (& amassed a whopping 7 comments) ON BRAND in EVERY way! #procrastination #10years #freelance

Miranda July Teaches You How to Avoid Procrastination

I've always thought of writer, actor and filmmaker Miranda July as someone who creates her own opportunities.

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Oct 18

Theater people talking about Sara Porkalob & 1776. I'd rather talk about Jess Wade, the physicist who's created 1600+ Wikipedia entries for female (many BIPOC) scientists. openculture.com/2022/10/meet-t via

#womeninscience #selfless #homeschool

Meet the Physicist Who Has Created 1600+ Wikipedia Entries for Important Female & Minority Scient...

I find nothing more rewarding, honestly, than seeing people get recognized and championed for what they’ve done. - Dr. Jess Wade As far as centuries go, the 21st one is a relatively good time to be a...

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Creative, Not Famous: The Small Potato Manifesto a book by Ayun Halliday

Oct 11

Support INDIE BOOKSELLERS & get FREE SHIPPING today & tomorrow at Bookshop.org. I recommend starting w/ CREATIVE, NOT FAMOUS, after which go nuts! bookshop.org/a/83525/978164 #booklovers #FreeShipping #amreading

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Oct 9

13th century pussy! Cats in Medieval Manuscripts & Paintings openculture.com/2022/10/cats-i via

#CatsOfTwitter #medievaltwitter

Cats in Medieval Manuscripts & Paintings

Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) never saw a rhino himself, but by relying on eyewitness descriptions of the one King Manuel I of Portugal intended as a gift to the Pope, he managed to...

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Oct 9

House of Dragons night hors d'oeuvres: Artist Makes Astonishing Armor for Cats & Mice openculture.com/2022/10/artist via

#medieval #homeschooling #CatsOfTwitter

Artist Makes Astonishing Armor for Cats & Mice

As a child, Jeff De Boer, the son of a sheet metal fabricator, was fascinated by the European plate armor collection in Calgary’s Glenbow Museum: There was something magical or mystical about that...

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Sep 30

I just backed Super Natural History: Charming Disaster album + oracle deck on

<3 kickstarter.com/projects/charm #NewMusicFriday

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Super Natural History: Charming Disaster album + oracle deck

A 60-card oracle deck inspired by Charming Disaster's music—and a brand new album: Super Natural History

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Sep 29

Fascinating, but a rough go with breakfast: the Wound Man, a poor soul who helped medieval docs treat injuries from war, accident or disease openculture.com/2022/09/behold via

#medievaltwitter #medicine #healthcare

Behold the Medieval Wound Man: The Poor Soul Who Illustrated the Injuries a Person Might Receive...

Do you swoon at the sight of blood? Suffer paper cuts as major trauma? Cover your eyes when the knife comes out in the horror movie?

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midwestperzinefest

@midwestperzine2

Sep 26

Get excited Midwest perzinesters! Have you RSVPed yet??! 🎉 October 8th, 10AM - 4PM, in the Conway Center on Columbia College’s campus. RSVP + more details here: facebook.com/events/conway-

Colorful flier for the perzine fest! The image is of a young person reading a Doris zine!

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Sep 21

<3 Sally Schmitt, the Creator of the French Laundry & Unsung Hero of California Cuisine, Gets Her Due in a Poignant, Short Documentary openculture.com/2022/09/sally- via

#womenshistory #restaurant #cheflife

Sally Schmitt, the Creator of the French Laundry & Unsung Hero of California Cuisine, Gets Her Due...

One of the New York Times’ most compelling regular features is Overlooked, which gives remarkable individuals whose deaths passed unremarked by the Times obit column a rousing, overdue sendoff.

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Sep 16

It goes without saying, but the ancestors would be shocked by the rents...Architect Breaks Down Five of the Most Iconic New York City Apartments openculture.com/2022/09/archit via

#NewYorkCity #architecture

Architect Breaks Down Five of the Most Iconic New York City Apartments

Real estate is a perennially hot topic in New York City, as is gentrification. Above, architect Michael Wyetzner, breaks down the defining features of several typical NYC apartments.

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thebookselfblog.wordpress.com

Sep 14

Thanks to Bookish Jen for reviewing Creative, Not Famous-The Small Potato Manifesto on Bookselfblog thebookselfblog.wordpress.com/2022/06/27/boo #BookReview #BookRecommendation

Book Review: Creative, Not Famous-The Small Potato Manifesto by Ayun Halliday

When it comes to art, entertainment, and culture, we’re all aware of the big bananas. They’re well-known actors, filmmakers, artists, musicians, singers, and writers of all kinds. These…

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Sep 2

The Public Domain burrows deep in the festering Hundred Acre Wood. I don't even like horror but the Winnie-The-Pooh: Blood and Honey trailer made me laugh aloud openculture.com/2022/09/winnie via

#HorrorMovies #publicdomain #adaptation

Winnie the Pooh Went Into the Public Domain, and Someone Already Turned the Story Into a Slasher...

Deep in the Hundred Acre Wood Where Christopher Robin plays You’ll find the enchanted neighborhood Of Christopher's childhood days… Those sweetly sentimental lyrics were penned not by A.A.

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Sep 1

Dolly's passionate about literacy, but I don't think she gives a f*ck about putting the kiddies to sleep w/ her Bedtime Read Alouds. :) She's more the fun trickster aunt type openculture.com/2022/08/dolly- via

#ChildrensBooks #nationaltreasure

Dolly Parton Reads Free Bedtime Stories to Kids: Watch Readings from Goodnight with Dolly

However old you may be, you’re never too old to have a children's book read aloud to you by a pajama clad Dolly Parton. So snuggle up! Every episode of Goodnight with Dolly finds the country music...

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Ayun Halliday - Episode 78 | 15 Minutes Podcast | Jamie Berger

Aug 29

I got to riff on fame w/

@15minsjamieb

of 15 Minutes podcast fame/infamy. Puts me right up there w/ David Sedaris, George Saunders, and CREATIVE, NOT FAMOUS contributor MariNaomi (whose Carters are not staying little at ALL, fame-wise.) 15minutesjamieberger.com/episodes/2022/ #fame #creativity

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audio links: apple podcasts spotify (also available pretty much everywhere pods are cast) Hello Listeners! I hope you’ve been as well and happy as you can be these days. It’s been going on two years...

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Jamie Berger

@15minsjamieb

Aug 29

First new pod episode in a long long time, with the wonderful and charming

‎15 Minutes: a podcast about fame, with Jamie Berger: Ayun Halliday - Episode 78 on Apple Podcasts

! Here's the Apple link, but it's available in all the places. Spotify link in comments.

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‎Show 15 Minutes: a podcast about fame, with Jamie Berger, Ep Ayun Halliday - Episode 78 - Aug 29, 2022

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Aug 26

Get your Hurrian Hymn on, ya heathens... multiple interpretations of the world’s oldest known song, (3,400+ years old) openculture.com/2022/08/hear-t via

#goldenoldies #AncientWorldSongsOrFilms #composer

Hear the World’s Oldest Known Song, “Hurrian Hymn No. 6” Written 3,400 Years Ago

Do you like old timey music? Splendid. You can’t get more old timey than Hurrian Hymn No. 6, which was discovered on a clay tablet in the ancient Syrian port city of Ugarit in the 1950s, and is over...

Aug 23

Not quite my dream of buying an abandoned Niagara Falls hotel & turning it into an elder care facility w/ hot pink walls, great food & a Ramones heavy soundtrack but of interest, for sure. An intentionally designed Dutch #dementia village. openculture.com/2022/08/how-a- via