Category: Recognition
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“Your House” Is a Crime Scene: A Forensic, Feminist, and Unhinged Analysis of Alanis Morissette’s Creepiest Track
Summer 2026. I’ve been revisiting my college days, watching Reality Bites, listening to Sheryl Crow, and thinking about my days at San Francisco State University, staying up with a printer that wouldn’t print my work that’s due in class the next morning. Of course, Alanis Morissette’s breakthrough album is the crowning jewel. It most certainly…
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Utang Sa Loob: On What Made Me
The Occasion In the summer of 2017, a magazine story circulated about a Filipino family and the katulong who had lived and worked with them for fifty-six years. She had started as a young child, gone to the United States with the family, cared for their home and their children. She never married. Never had…
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You Can’t Take the Sky From Me
This Firefly poster has been hanging on my office wall since 2018. I’ve been seeing it almost everyday since. But today, it’s as if I’d just laid eyes on it for the first time. The quote at the bottom feels like it just found me. Today. Right now. It did in that way certain lines…
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You Never Truly Quit: Belonging, Meaning, and Maslow With Better UI
A YouTube essayist named Kneecap Jake made a video called You Never Truly Quit World of Warcraft. He could have stopped at addiction. The algorithm would have rewarded him for it by sending many viewers his way. Instead, he kept pulling the thread until he found what was actually there: belonging, meaning, competence, purpose. Four…
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The Optional Chain: Fandral Staghelm and the Question Nobody Had to Ask
In the Cenarion Enclave in Darnassus, there is a quest chain that most players have completed without thinking twice about it. The Arch Druid, imperious, shirtless, radiating barely concealed contempt for your presence, had a research program. Morrowgrain. A mysterious herb. Grow it from Tharlendris seeds in Un’Goro soil, bring him ten, receive a goody…
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The Faculty Governance Gala: Where the Cricket Chorus Performs Their Greatest Hits
In the hallowed, slightly drafty halls of Biblios Heights Stacks Academic Library, “Governance” isn’t just a series of meetings—it’s a performance. And once a year, when the budget cycles align and the institutional mediation is at its peak, we host the Faculty Governance Gala. The gala is the only time the Cricket Chorus leaves the…
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The Great Cataloging Glitch of ’24: When the Sloth Accidentally Moved the Entire Fiction Section into “Applied Sciences”
In Biblios Heights, we try to keep the chaos organized, but some days the infrastructure just decides to take a nap. And in the library world, there is no nap more dangerous than the one taken by the Slow Processor Sloth. It was a Tuesday (traditionally a day for “Optimistic Metadata”) when the progress bar…
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Et tu?
Being harmed by someone who knows exactly what harm feels like is not the same as being harmed by someone cruel, or careless, or ignorant. Injury is produced in those sorts of situations. Harm caused by one who knows how it feels to be harmed in the exact same way is different. It’s a particular…
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The Inter-Library Loan Abyss: A Biblios Heights Stacks Thriller
The coffee crisis of last week had settled into a fragile peace, but in Biblios Heights Academic Library, “peace” is just the quiet before the metadata hits the fan. My duties as Melissa the Metadata- Wrangler (or Librarian Cardenas–I answer to both names), a subject librarian, sometimes requires me to hunt for specific books that…