the weblog of robin camille davis

We visited an extremely silly Dave Eggers show at Electrical Works in San Francisco. You can see pretty much all of it here. This suspicious chihuahua was probably my favorite.

My grandma studied for her PhD at USC. One of the professors in the education department, Charles M. Brown, gave a couple short stories he wrote (or rewrote) to my mom. He’s now a professor emeritus at USC. Who knows what he’s up to or if he’s still puttering around. But his funny stories recently [...]

This should be a thing that exists in my life. Is it so much to ask, really?

This is, quite likely, the greatest picture ever taken.

Interlude: a nonfiction gchat conversation.
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10:01 PM Deven: so, think you could keep pace in a back-and-forth with birds?
me: it might be too hard for me to swallow
10:02 PM Deven: that one almost made me crow
10:03 PM me: there’s no thrush to get too serious here
Deven: well, you know what they say: titmouse for [...]

Okay, this is awkward, um… maybe nobody’s told you yet, but it seems you have forgotten to put on your pants this morning. All seventy of you. It happens to the best of us! Next time why don’t you try putting up a reminder list by the door so you see it on the way [...]

Example of how the Internet is great: It all began when I decided to change the background color of my Twitter profile. Then I was curious how “mauve” was pronounced (rhymes with grove), and I embarked upon an Adventure in Colors on Wikipedia. Five minutes later, I was searching for Charteuse recipes (because I hadn’t [...]

Perhaps the greatest of biblioklepts was Don Vincente, a friar of that Poblat convent whose library was plundered and dispersed at the pillage of the monasteries during the regency of Queen Christina in 1834. Coming to Barcelona, he established himself in a gloomy den in the book-selling quarter of the town. Here he set up [...]