h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I applied to a technical writing job and listed two of my h2g2 Edited Entries as writing samples, the ones about Jackson and Waffle House Restaurant. Lord help me if they poke around and see what else I've written. Hello, ma'am! Really I'm a hard worker in spite of the weird stuff I write in my spare time.

What would I do if I suddenly stopped being underemployed? It would be a whole new feeling. Surely I'll write a big, gnarly essay if/when it happens.

Anyhow, the employer might not recognize that I actually wrote them if they looked up the Jackson and Waffle House entries and found that they had been created by "Subcom. Deidzoeb." No, really, I'm Subcom Deidzoeb!!

I'll put my name back to how it *should* be in a few days if I get no response. Until then, don't tell anybody, okay?

Other entries I need to finish some day:

* Detroit's Dynasty of Radio Adventures (Lone Ranger & Green Hornet)
* Chinese Invasion of Vietnam 1979: Domino Theory shot to hell.
* My stretch of Old US 12.

So that's why the name change. Good luck with the application.
Waz

I was curious about that...

Note to self: another topic for future entry. Comics and Anarchism in Michigan (major collection of Anarchists papers at U of M libraries, largest comics collection in the world at MSU).

oops. Largest library comics collection, not necessarily the largest personal collection.

Comical Anarchy?
An Archie Comic?

Did the library form the collection, I mean a librarian, or was it donated?

Is there a link to anything useful at the library?

How far back does their anarchy collection go?
I accidently ran across a library site the other day with the Red Scare as it's topic.

Haven't done that much research on it yet. I heard a radio interview with MSU's comics librarian that made me think of this. Here's a page that tells a little about their comic collection:
http://www.lib.msu.edu/comics/devpol.htm

Apparently they also have pulps and dime novels and genre fiction, all part of the "Russel B. Nye Popular Culture Collections." Probably not a lot of stuff online that you might consider "useful," but here's a link to some samples of text and images
http://digital.lib.msu.edu/onlinecolls/collection.cfm?CID=2

At the other big school, University of Michigan, they have the "Labadie Collection," established in 1911 by a prominent Detroit anarchist who donated his library. "In addition to anarchism, the Collection's strengths include: civil liberties (with an emphases on racial minorities), socialism, communism, colonialism and imperialism, American labor history through the 1930s, the IWW, the Spanish Civil War, sexual freedom, women's liberation, gay liberation, the underground press, and student protest." There was some controversy a few years ago when the journals of Ted Kaczinsky (the Unabomber) were taken into the collection.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/spec-coll/labadie/labadie.html

I don't know if you'll find anything useful at that one either, but they apparently have some images of anarchist posters if you dig around there a little bit.

I should probably read a lot more about those libraries and other Michigan libraries, see what other weirdness lurks up here. I just thought comics and anarchism go together so well, it's something for Michiganders to be proud of. (Well, a few of us.)

University libraries are really interesting places.

The UT Austin library has tons of stuff, including a Gutenberg Bible and one of the largest collections of ancient maps in the westertn world.

The library at SIU, Carbondale, a relatively tiny school, had the papers of Buckminster Fuller and even one of his early Sphere buildings, which was used as a Crisis Hotline building when I was there. It also had a magnificent record collection, including some promo albums from the forties, fifties and sixties and some test recordings from the pressing plants.

Note to self: another idea for an entry...

A Political Economy of Doozers
(the little pod-people workers from Fraggle Rock series)