Cleaning Out My Folklore Bookmark Folder

I have months-worth of folklore bookmarks to share with you wonderful people. Consider these my early Festivus presents. Warning: not all of these are timely.

• How exactly do Russians celebrate Christmas? Don't turn to the Internet for answers: they usually tell you how Russians used to celebrate Christmas. Instead, read this. (This reminds me of a headline I saw on Vesti.ru the other day: "Ded Moroz does not like letters that start with 'Gimme.")
• Folklorist Dan Barnes was feted at the AFS meeting. Since retirement he spends a lot of his time tickling the ivory, quite an accomplished chap. Congrats on the award.
• Are you a folklorist looking for a tenure-track job? Apply here! These jobs don't grow on trees, you know.
• The estimable Jason Baird Jackson recounts his adventures at the AFS conference. Prof. Jackson is one of the folklorists behind the Open Folklore project - which just might be the greatest thing to hit folklore since the Aarne-Thompson Tale Type Index. I order you to subscribe to his blog right now.
• Vance Randolph's "Pissing in the Snow" is a major influence on my folklore career. But there was way more to him than collecting obscene folklore - here's a bio on the influential writer.
• My advisor wanted me to submit a chapter of my dissertation to The Journal of Folklore Research. I got lazy and never revised it. Now it is way out-of-date. But here is the new issue for your enjoyment. (I don't subscribe to Project Muse, but the articles look interesting, especially the "Undoing of of an Encyclopedia" and "Slovenian Folk Culture" articles).
• I am sure I have discussed my love for the works of Henry Glassie before. Meeting him at a talk at the University of Virginia was a highlight of my folklore life. Here he is discussing creativity in the context of winning the AFS award. Here's the press release about the award.
• The Boiled Down Juice is another folklore blog I demand that you read. Here she reviews a book on the life of Hazel Dickens.
• The Chicago Folklore Prize this year goes to . . . .David Delgado Shorter of UCLA for his book "We Will Dance Our Truth: Yaqui History in Yoeme Performance."