I am very bitter that Princess Di will no longer be appearing in X-Statix. Marvel hacks! Did the powers that be decide that it would be too political and get in the way of some of their movie deals? Hmm? There was plenty of publicity for it earlier, maybe they weren’t expecting the reaction that [...]

Wow, I’m feeling so cataloged by other library blogs!
Thanks for the mention, openstacks and librarystuff.
I’ve just been plugging away for the past few months, confident that the only people reading this were a few of my buddies from library school and my family. Now I feel a little bit like I did when I [...]

I got my cable service hooked up to the internet yesterday. I had to spend around 10 minutes explaining to the repairman that librarians have masters degrees. I think that ALA should give out some sort of compensation or hazard pay when we have to do that. Obviously their marketing efforts aren’t all that effective [...]

I caught part of the spiderman animated series. I was not enthralled, I think because I just can’t get in to seeing computer animated people. I just prefer my animation hand drawn or at least looking hand drawn. No tv show is going to have the budget to approximate the cgi in movies, and the [...]

I am a little tired of the heat wave currently engulfing the east coast. My apartment is quite toasty right now.
I finally picked up the Batman/Planetary crossover. I’m glad that the series is being published again. Usually I tend to avoid crossover issues of anything, but I should have known that it would be [...]

Cerebus has been totally off my radar for many years, but I stumbled across a few articles recently that detail what’s going on in the comic as it approaches issue 300. “Return to Sim City” details the recent plot developments. And besides all the crazy women hating from the past which seems to still be [...]