truepenny | 5 things, Spring/Rebirth Holiday Edition (Reply)

Support rape crisis centers and enter to win an Advance Copy of Red Hood’s Revenge, by Jim C. Hines.

The most excellent Jim C. Hines is doing a not-a-raffle to support rape crisis centers.

I've found something that puzzles me utterly about Tefertiller's Earp biography. Both Roberts and Barra (Inventing Wyatt Earp: His Life and Many Legends, which I'm reading right now) remark on the fact that Sadie Marcus was Jewish--in a well-known-historical-fact way, not in a whoa-researchers-have recently-discovered way--and since I learn from Barra that Wyatt is buried with Sadie in a Jewish cemetery in Colma, California*, it seems like something a biography of Wyatt ought at least to name-check. But Tefertiller (whom Barra describes as having "put together the most complete picture to date of the strange, lifelong match between two adventurers of vastly different backgrounds" (Barra 15)) doesn't mention that fact anywhere. Given how clearly Tefertiller's dislike of Sadie shows through, I'm wondering if it's some sort of weird reverse-anti-Semitism: not tainting Judaism by association with her. But really, I'm just baffled.

*Google Maps (see link above) shows that Colma, California, is nothing BUT cemeteries, which led me to check the Wikipedia entry; Colma was founded as a necropolis in 1924: "the dead population outnumber the living by thousands to one."

Since my box of Corambis paperbacks arrived while I was in Tucson, I spent part of the afternoon organizing my inventory of author's copies (and will spend another part of the afternoon organizing some of the books in the house I didn't write); I have fourteen sets of the paperbacks of the Doctrine of Labyrinths. My plan has always been to donate them, and I would be grateful for suggestions of libraries, programs, or other worthy places/causes for which they would be good donations. (I don't guarantee, of course, that I will follow any given suggestion.)

First thunderstorm of the year this afternoon, although it was clearly in a hurry to be somewhere else.