Archive for May, 2007
May 25, 2007 at 3:40 pm
· Filed under Cool Movies
Marriage has changed more in the past 30 thirty years than in the previous 3,500, or so claims scholar Stephanie Coontz (listen to her lecture from the link below). To help remember the changes and to celebrate wedding season, the Archive tosses this bouquet of films:
– Renata
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May 23, 2007 at 12:58 pm
· Filed under Cool Audio
Let’s all put our heads on our desks and listen to a story from The Story Lady. Afterwards, we’ll have apple juice and some graham crackers with peanut butter.
My personal favorites are below, but there are plenty more to explore:
– Alexis
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May 17, 2007 at 1:32 pm
· Filed under Cool Audio, Cool Books, Cool Movies
As part of my aversion therapy regimen, I thought it would be “fun” to put together an entire post about spiders.
– Alexis
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May 15, 2007 at 12:29 pm
· Filed under Cool Books
Today is the birthday of Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919). To celebrate we’re highlighting his works available on the Archive. Thanks to our partners LibriVox, Project Gutenberg, and the University of California Libraries you can read or listen to quite a few books by the wizard of children’s literature:
Oz Books
Other Stories
- A Kidnapped Santa Claus Text
- American Fairy Tales Text
- Aunt Jane’s Nieces Text
- John Dough and the Cherub Text
- Life and Adventures of Santa Claus Text
- Mary Louise Text
- Mother Goose in Prose Text Audio
- Sky Island: Being the Further Exciting Adventures of Trot and Cap’n Bill After Their Visit to the Sea Fairies Text Audio
- Tamawaca Folks: A Summer Comedy Text
- The Enchanted Island of Yew Text Audio
- The Fate of a Crown Text
- The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus Text
- The Master Key : an Electrical Fairy Tale, Founded Upon the Mysteries of Electricity and the Optimism of its Devotees Text Audio
- The Sea Fairies Text
- The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People Text
– Renata
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May 14, 2007 at 3:10 pm
· Filed under Cool Movies
Not much can surprise us here at the Archive, not even this handful of videos documenting public displays of, er, creative behavior. Is this political commentary? Free expression? A fun way to party? Or just bad behavior?
- Pie Fight (1969): See pies fly as independent filmmakers attack the opening gala of the San Francisco Film Festival. (Click the DivX link in the left-hand column of the page to view.)
- Mud People (1989): People caked in mud descend upon San Francisco’s Financial District to create a bit of “merry mayhem”.
- Art Attack (1999): The San Francisco Department of Public Art manages to shut down a block of the Financial District.
- Naked Man Dancing (2002): A man dances naked on the beach.
- Santacon (2006): Finally, an instance of creative behavior outside the San Francisco Bay Area: 1500 drunken Santas descend on New York City.
– Renata
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