• Firebrands, which reminds me of Library Heroes in many ways.
• Doonesbury compliations, since they were left out on the kitchen table.
  

• Today was catch-up. I read my notes from HOPE and googled all the things that the hackers had taught me about over the weekend.

• These past few days have been devoted to hacking everything from culture to typewriters to toenails.

• Dane Ward, "Re-Visioning Information Literacy for Lifelong Meaning."
  • "We continually experience the world of inner information.

• Katelyn Angell, "Boom or Bust: The Need for Senior Services Librarians." from Progressive Librarian #32
• "The Career Risks of Scrutinizing the Physical Side of Books"
  

• Over breakfast:
  • A bit of No History, No Self zine (I put in an order with Stranger Danger and got some great stuff for the collection I'm building--thanks to Jenna for her review).
  • Angry Black-White Girl, which has one of my very favorite works of art of all time reprinted on the back cover: Adrian Piper's Calling Cards.
  

• Today I went over to the dark side, instead of getting a million things done on my to-do, and to-read lists: IRC.

The presence of Grace Lee Boggs at the U.S. Social Forum this year--95 years into her life as an activist and free thinker--was one of the aspects of the Forum that touched everything else that I experienced in Detroit.

Image from Americans Who Tell the Truth

During one celebration of her 95th birthday at the Social Forum, I heard Grace talk about once living in an apartment that she could only access via an alleyway that was infested with rats. "And that was important," she said, "because it made me rat-conscious!" I am amazed by her resilience and her tremendous mind.

On Thursday, I had the opportunity to hear Grace Lee Boggs speak with Immanuel Wallerstein. Introduced as "avid seekers of new truth," they have known each other since the 60's and seemed delighted to share the stage. Here are a few notes I took as I listened.

• Finished Clay's Ark and Patternmaster. I think the first two books of the series were more intriguing, but I enjoyed all of them thoroughly and am trying to get a hold of the excluded Survivor, third in the series and which hasn't been reprinted because Octavia Butler didn't like it.
• Started Alex & Me, after hearing Irene Pepperberg on the Moth (and thought it would be nice to pass on to a certain nonagenarian who has been reading books about birds and their relationships to people lately...)
  

• More Butler; Clay's Ark
• Telegram Ma'am/Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell! split again
  

• Finished Mind of My Mind on the train home, and yes, I will admit I took the long way to read some more. 500 pages in and it feels like nothing!

• Octavia E. Butler has totally taken over. I found myself thinking, amidst enjoying being a NYC tour guide this weekend, what the characters in the novels were doing when I wasn't reading about them. Must have been the heat.

• Finished Wild Seed, and moved directly on to Mind of My Mind, since the trilogy is conveniently bound together. Good waiting-at-the-airport reading.

• Wild Seed, which I am really enjoying. Thanks to dkg for leaving it in the back seat of the van for sharing to get me started.
• Telegram Ma'am zine #14. I was happy to also find this in the box o' zines. This one was about bipolar and a welcome read today, when I am feeling up and down and wonky.
• Telegram Ma'am #18/Your Pretty Face is Going Straight to Hell #9 split. I am reviewing this zine for Library Journal!