Ahh-Choo! I Think I've Caught Something
I’ve been tagged, by my favorite GeneaBlogging bookseller and Flutaphone player, Bill West at West in New England for that new contagious non-fiction reading reviewing meme malady going around. You know me, if I can catch something I will, and I have.
The symptoms are:
A) An uncontrollable enthusiasm for non-fiction issues/interests;
B) An elevated temperature requiring the review of books written about those interests;
C) An unquenchable thirst for renumeration brought on by the elevated temperature;
D) Babbling incoherently to friends and family, or spreading the malady through email or blogs;
e) Have I suffered from this malady before?
Take a look over my shoulder and let's see how the contagious non-fiction reading reviewing meme malady affects the footnoteMaven.
Well, I certainly have symptom A. I'm one of those who never met a non-fiction book she didn't like. The malady goes from mild to rampant depending on my current projects. Right now I'm researching old photographs so I'm reading:
An Illustrated History of Hairstyles 1830-1930
by Marian I. Doyle
Dressed for the Photographer: Ordinary Americans and Fashion, 1840-1900
by Joan L. Severa
Biographies of Western Photographers 1840-1900
by Carl Mautz
I've just ordered two more new books to help ward off the malady:
Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865
by Peter Palmquist & Thomas Kailbourn
Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide: A Biographical Dictionary, 1839-1865
by Peter E. Palmquist & Thomas R. Kailbourn
And if you want to write a book about old photographs you should take the cure by reading two such lovely books:
The Best Dog in the World:
Vintage Portraits of Children and Their Dogs
by Donna Long
A Pony in the Picture:
Vintage Portraits of Children and Ponies
by Victoria Randall
Symptom B is not present in my strain of the malady. I would rather read and work on my vast (read failure to focus) projects than write a review any time. So since Symptom B isn't present, taking money as a cure is totally unnecessary.
Were I to develop a temperature, I'd love to bring it down with that green pill known as MONEY. It would help to pay for the malady. However, I don't see that in my near future.
Do I babble incoherently to friends and family about this malady and spread the virus through blogs and email. Yes, to all of the above. I am very contagious. My friends and family avoid contact through selective deafness and the delete button. Is there no one to listen to me?
Have I suffered from this malady before? The malady yes, the symptom of needed review, no. I discuss my malady by example, several examples were the recipients of a 2007 iGene award and can be found at All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up!
The symptoms are:
A) An uncontrollable enthusiasm for non-fiction issues/interests;
B) An elevated temperature requiring the review of books written about those interests;
C) An unquenchable thirst for renumeration brought on by the elevated temperature;
D) Babbling incoherently to friends and family, or spreading the malady through email or blogs;
e) Have I suffered from this malady before?
Take a look over my shoulder and let's see how the contagious non-fiction reading reviewing meme malady affects the footnoteMaven.
Well, I certainly have symptom A. I'm one of those who never met a non-fiction book she didn't like. The malady goes from mild to rampant depending on my current projects. Right now I'm researching old photographs so I'm reading:
by Marian I. Doyle
Dressed for the Photographer: Ordinary Americans and Fashion, 1840-1900
by Joan L. Severa
Biographies of Western Photographers 1840-1900
by Carl Mautz
I've just ordered two more new books to help ward off the malady:
Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865
by Peter Palmquist & Thomas Kailbourn
Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide: A Biographical Dictionary, 1839-1865
by Peter E. Palmquist & Thomas R. Kailbourn
And if you want to write a book about old photographs you should take the cure by reading two such lovely books:
The Best Dog in the World:
Vintage Portraits of Children and Their Dogs
by Donna Long
A Pony in the Picture:
Vintage Portraits of Children and Ponies
by Victoria Randall
Symptom B is not present in my strain of the malady. I would rather read and work on my vast (read failure to focus) projects than write a review any time. So since Symptom B isn't present, taking money as a cure is totally unnecessary.
Were I to develop a temperature, I'd love to bring it down with that green pill known as MONEY. It would help to pay for the malady. However, I don't see that in my near future.
Do I babble incoherently to friends and family about this malady and spread the virus through blogs and email. Yes, to all of the above. I am very contagious. My friends and family avoid contact through selective deafness and the delete button. Is there no one to listen to me?
Have I suffered from this malady before? The malady yes, the symptom of needed review, no. I discuss my malady by example, several examples were the recipients of a 2007 iGene award and can be found at All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up!
4 Comments:
Your way is very cool (and illustrated)!
If it was ever in doubt... You're Back!!!
Vintage fM here! Terrific!
It's always a pleasure to read your witty posts!
I might look up some of your photographic history book finds, as it is an interest of mine too (forgot to mention it in the meme, darn!).
Yes, Craig's - of course. I was trying to Google that, since I had not bookmarked it, which was most remiss of me. Thank you so much for the link. I did find the listing to be pretty inaccurate - in that Lydia is listed as a photographer in the 1870 census, and shows up throughout the 1860s in Lain's Brooklyn directories as such. In the 1865/6 Lain's she and Lemuel are listed both at 160 Grand and she as "widowed"!
Again, many thanks. Your analysis of the Birthday Club photo, BTW, inspired an idea that I am working on (not a photo exactly, but similar modus operandi...)& I will link to the Birthday Club post when I do -
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