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Back from whence they came

Monday, November 16, 2009

This morning I left a graffiti mini-card on a number of the desks in the stacks, study carrels, and eraser-holders on the A-level. It was a strange moment, leaving reminders of things long-erased on the A-level; it was even stranger to leave a card with an image of a piece of graffiti… under that piece [...]

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Crescat Graffiti goes to a Slavic conference

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Last week, right before I left for one of the big national Slavic conventions (where I was giving a Digital Humanities style talk contrasting data models and standards used by two Old Church Slavonic dictionaries), my t-shirts arrived, so I figured I’d take them to Boston for the conference. To celebrate Russian at the University [...]

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Lost and Found

Monday, November 9, 2009

A lot has happened in the last week in the Regenstein stacks. New doodles, new replies– more on those later this week. Today, for the first time, I risked an observer effect by leaving a button on two study desks with a high incidence of graffiti: our poor T.S. Eliot (see previous blog post) and [...]

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Buttons!

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Upon getting back from a 4-day trip, I found the buttons I ordered last week crammed in my mailbox. This round of buttons (there may be more, we shall see) features the much-loved “Go to Italy, be a cobbler”. So how do you get a button? I’ve set aside one for each of the books [...]

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