Aw, P-C, you're adorable, but Matilda remains resolutely shy. She is very firmly opposed to talking to anyone at all on the telephone right now (also absorbed in studying the My Little Pony library her daycare provider gave her, and stacking the books in Tolee's Treehouse).
Ugh. My dad, who knows my feelings about feminism and gender and innate differences but thinks I'm adorably earnest but ignorant in the ways of the Real World with all its snips'n'snails and sugar'n'spice children, got her a hot pink fairy-decorated Glitter Girl lip gloss and body glitter mini-suitcase. Bleargh.
You can tell Matilda her Super High-Powered Electronic Drum Kit is is the mail.
OK, maybe don't tell her that, because it's not true.
Aww. Well it was her party.
and she'll cry if she wants to.
It's very warm here today--still in the high 80s and with no breeze to speak of, which means it's close to 80 in my apartment.
Do not want.
This is cool - every issue of
Life
magazine from 1936 to 1972 has been put online by Google....
[link]
I'm excited to announce that starting today, visitors to Google Books will be able to search and browse even more magazines on Google Books. We've partnered with Life Inc. to digitize LIFE Magazine's entire run as a weekly: over 1,860 issues, covering the years from 1936 to 1972. Most of us are familiar with the term "American Century," but chances are few of us have been able to read Henry Luce's defining editorial in its original context, a 1941 issue of LIFE. You'll be able to find and read Leonard McCombe’s iconic cover and photo essay on a Texas Cowboy and Richard Meryman's famous last interview with Marilyn Monroe. You can find a 1968 cover story on Georgia O'Keeffe (which you may want to read if you're visiting the Whitney Museum anytime soon).
Google
Life
magazines: [link]
The March 28, 1960 issue of
Life
with Kennedy and Humphrey on the cover, at my parents' farm: [link] (I've linked to the picture before)
This is cool - every issue of Life magazine from 1936 to 1972 has been put online by Google....
Cool beans! There's a piece on Francoise Sagan that I've always wanted to read, as well as a classic "Here Are the Beats of San Francisco!"
What issue is the Beat article in?
Weird - I guess they're afraid of people downloading the whole thing at once.
I got this error:
We're sorry... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.
Bastards. I just paged through about 6 issues, looking for car ads....
Happy Birthday, Matilda!!! Poor thing. I still can't stand people singing happy birthday to me.
