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Punk Flyers Digital Collection at the Cornell Library

Just discovered that the Cornell University Library has a digital collection of over 2000 punk, new wave, and hardcore show flyers.

Cornell’s Rare and Manuscript Division offers deep collections on modern music, including a growing number of archives on punk and post-punk music and culture. The show and event advertising flyers in this digital archive are drawn from two of Cornell’s prominent punk collections:  The Johan Kugelberg punk collection, which includes hundreds of fliers, posters, zines, original art and more, and the Aaron Cometbus Punk and Underground Press Collection, which includes punk, new wave, and hardcore flyers and other ephemera from the San Francisco Bay area and beyond.

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Amanda Cohen on Us vs. Them

Amanda Cohen’s rumination on a 1-star review she received on Yelp is a solid read:

So on behalf of 99% of restaurants I want to tell customers: No one’s out to get you. There’s a reason some restaurants do weird things. They may not make sense to you, but could you trust us? Restaurants have one goal in life, to make money. And the easiest way to do that is to help you have the time of your life. And to chefs, this is a service business. It’s not about our egos, or our margins, or our precious, precious food. It’s about making people happy. That’s all most of our customers want.

I think this goes well beyond the restaurant industry into lots of creative disciplines.

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Theme Switch

For the seventeen of you still reading, please note that I’ve swapped themes somewhat arbitrarily.

While I do dearly love my color palette (and it’s still sort of in this theme), I was running into some typography and readability issues that didn’t seem worth deconstructing a stylesheet. Hence, a swap to the new WordPress default, and hopefully a little less concern about my eyes bleeding.

Also, this is an “aside”, whatever that means. I guess these are Tumblr-esqe post types?