This was my favorite book as a kid. The idea that a girl could run away and have a grand time in the grandest museum in the world was delicious beyond belief. I wanted to be Claudia Kincaid’s best friend.

When I walked into the Met for the first time when I was 24, I almost began to weep realizing I was in Claudia’s home away from home.

I’ll go be verklempt over there in the corner, with all the other female Generation Xers.

[NYT: E.L. Konigsburg, Author, is Dead at 83]

[New Yorker: Postscript]

And can we please stop making decisions based on a Bronze Age work of fiction?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMI0nXc-arI

Sessions – too dumb and too racist to be a federal judge.

This makes me smile:

“Jon Stewart is pretty great at skewering Donald Trump, and Donald Trump is pretty good at typing on an electronic device in order to post a short message on Twitter. Trump struggles in this asymmetrical warfare. On Wednesday, he lowered himself — a major feat in itself — to outing Jon Stewart as a Jew. ‘I promise you that I’m much smarter than Jonathan Leibowitz – I mean Jon Stewart @TheDailyShow. Who, by the way, is totally overrated,” Trump tweeted. He then defended his hair, claiming it is not a wig.” [The Atlantic Wire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA51wyl-9IE

Title: “Oh Myyy! There Goes The Internet”

Author: George Takei

Rank: 69

Blurb: “How did a 75-year old actor from Star Trek become a social media juggernaut?”

Review: “The first 69 pages or so are, as one might expect, the tale of a man in his sixties coming to grips with the modern internet.”

Footnote: Actually, it would be those first 69 pages that fascinate us. Just as a popularized Internet was a world-historical moment when Netscape debuted in 1994, we’re now at a moment when “digital natives” (yeah, we know, get used to it) are past drinking age. As a 35-year-old Latent Geek at the time, the transition was easy for us — especially since, working on a college campus, we were already active on the pre-Web Internet. But consider George Takei as a stand-in for your parents. (Okay, your grandparents. Fuck you kids, your time will come.) What’s it like to be potentially left behind by a profound technological shift?

Oh Myyy! [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon Kickback Link]

This was Sunday night:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Uf1SYr7E4