Now this is a story all about how/Archives got flip-turned upside down

Longest EAD comic ever, I think. Goes all the way up to <ead>!

Friday, Funnier: Why Women are Happier (in the Archives)

Instead of copying stale jokes off the internet, we create our own humor. Yeah, bitches!

Thanks to Maureen for pointing out the original and then suggesting a comic, which turned out way better than the rant I wanted to write.

Dr. Arrangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Jon Stewart

I don’t often write about issues in archives-land, but when it comes to making fun of archivists, I’m kind of the expert.

Apparently there is some concern on teh interwebz over Jon Stewart talking smack about archivists. Now, I’ve accused our profession of some pretty bad stuff: Twittering instead of working, not bathing, getting off from old manuscripts. I could go on. And I’ve been getting away with it for a while.

“But Dee Dee!” you cry. “We’re all archivists here!”  Not so! Thanks to the relative obscurity of our profession, I’m less likely to be introduced as “the archivist” than as “the one who draws a webcomic,” and so we have a few readers who don’t know much about archives. (Hi there! Thanks for reading!) And I have to say, explaining archives works so much better when there’s the payoff of understanding a joke at the end. I know because I do it all the time.

Thank you, Jon Stewart, for providing archEYEvists with this valuable teaching moment, and for hosting the only news show worth watching.

And now, your Moment of Zen:

Image by tommaync

Happy Birthday, Derangement and Description!

A year ago today, I posted the very first Derangement and Description comic, and it’s been a pretty awesome year since. I have a scary scary backlog of comic ideas and can’t wait for another year of archives lulz.

Thanks for reading, Derangers! And thanks to everyone who has shared comic ideas or fixed my EAD–I couldn’t have done it without you.

Since it’s awfully short notice for a party, we will be having a virtual birthday picnic in the comments! Hooray! Please post what dish you are bringing!

–Rebecca

Keep your power laws off my collection!

so i herd u liek haikuz

If you have a great archives haiku that needs a drawing to go with it, email me and I’ll hook you up.

(Thanks for the suggestion, Michelle!)

PhilEADelphia

Some context for yiz.

Kids these days, with their loud music and their archives blogs

“When I was your age,” I told those NewArchivists, “we didn’t have no fancy group blogs. We all wrote our own content. And we were happy with our default headers. One color was more than enough!”

“Just how old are you anyway, Dee Dee?” they asked.

And I gave them a comic to distract them.

(Or maybe I offered, and they accepted, but what a boring post that would make!)

Archived for her pleasure

Finally, another entry for the Deranged Dictionary!

Off-color metadata

Confused? Maybe you should have paid more than selective attention in Psych 101.