Jay Sylvestre
oldslyboots.bsky.social
Jay Sylvestre
@oldslyboots.bsky.social
Ice cream maker, rare books curator, papercut artist, assumes that puns are funny automatically
First day of teaching my Rare Books class for the Catholic MLIS program! Haven't run a semester long course before but I'm excited to see how this thing goes. Lots of great guest speakers and a few field trips lined up to cover a lot of different parts od rare books work.
August 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Reposted by Jay Sylvestre
(mf doom voice) he threw a sandwich cheese and salami, feds couldn't indict folded like origami, afraid of subway both the chain and the train, mayo salt and pepper shake your thang, grand jury shut em down twice, coca cola on the side no ice
August 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Feels like a lifetime ago, but very excited to see this in print!
May 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Happy Halloween! Who wore it better? Catesby vs Curator
October 31, 2024 at 1:23 PM
Had a blast with this class. Always wonderful to have enthusiastic faculty and curious students to work with!
“Yours sincerely, Claude McKay” (!!!): so immensely grateful to @oldslyboots.bsky.social for pulling together the most stunning collection of items for our novel seminar’s visit to special collections yesterday — still reeling from this, truly 😮🤩🙏
November 8, 2023 at 10:10 PM
Barbenheimer pop up at new student orientation. Apparently Georgetown was one of about 20 schools to license their logo and colors in the 90s. Has been a big hit!
August 22, 2023 at 6:46 PM
Hard to believe it’s already been a year at Georgetown! Was hard to find 1 or 2 images to illustrate the year but this completely ridiculous custom Sangorski binding on Percy Bysshe Shelley’s the Masque of Anarchy captures some of the vibe
August 1, 2023 at 10:32 PM