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Ellery E Foutch

@elleryefoutch.bsky.social

assoc prof, American studies, middlebury college - art & material culture of u.s. - critical museum studies, histories & materiality of natural history & quirk. at closing time, I get kicked out of swimming pools, reading rooms, museums

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Ellery E Foutch@elleryefoutch.bsky.social · 3d ago

There are so many lovely & moving & funny passages in Tillie Walden’s CHARITY & SYLVIA- this might be my fave. “A Comprehensive List, Formed At The Time By Which [C&S] Have Been Together some 9 Years, Of All The Qualities They Love and Appreciate In One Another” vs “…They Find ABSOLUTELY MADDENING”

Open book, left page: “Comprehensive List, Formed At The Time By Which Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake Have Been Together some 9 Years, Of All The Qualities They Love and Appreciate In One Another. Charity loves in Sylvia: 1. Her singing voice 2. How easily She blushes 3. How she makes tea (it always tastes better, how?) 4. How her feet look in woolen socks 5. Her patience 6. Her pumpkin pye 7. Her excitement at receiving a present 8. Her beauty, oh her beauty Sylvia loves in Charity 1. Her spirit 2. Her mole 3. Her moods (for in her sadness she holds her tighter) 4. How She awakes every single morn (a breath, a stretch, a question: "Sylvia?") 5. Her notes left about the house (We are out of thread! Lord save us!") 6. Her hair when wet 7. The crook of her arm 8. Her handwriting” pictures of women in profile and flowers. Facing page: “A Comprehensive List, Formed At The Time By Which Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake Have Been Together some 9 Years, Of All The Qualities They Find ABSOLUTELY MADDENING In One Another: Charity cannot stand that Sylvia 1 Eats so extremely slowly 2 clicks her tongue when frustrated 3. Uses salt to an overwhelming degree 4. Insists the house be in a constant State of cleanliness 5. Continues to harbor Shame over their love Sylvia cannot stand that Charity: 1. Often misses church 2. Rarely does the washing up 3. Rarely does the laundry 4. Rarely Sweeps 5. Rarely tends the fire 6. Rarely makes the bed 7. Rarely dusts the shelves 8. Rarely clears the candle wax.”
jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 5d ago

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
Ellery E Foutch@elleryefoutch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In today’s on-the-nose news, received word that my book will have a delayed release date due to printing errors, and, luckily for me, @uminnpress.bsky.social is perfectionist enough to ask for reprinting. Still available for pre-order w/ a sweet discount code! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791648...

A Perfectionist Impulse

Exploring a collection of wondrous objects to understand the nineteenth-century desire to preserve the perfect momentCultural studies of the nineteenth centu...

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Ellery E Foutch@elleryefoutch.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Still buzzing from the great talks and generative conversations of #CAA114 - thanks, colleagues, and College Art Association (which somehow hasn’t migrated over here yet!). Pictured: views from Sunday morning, Chicago/ Sunday evening, Middlebury Vermont.

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