I’m flying back tomorrow, I’ve had a very relaxing thanksgiving and after hauling my laptop across the country, this is the first time I’ve taken it out of the case. My RSS reader has over 1000 stories I haven’t read yet.
Instead, I made my way through some books (finished the first part of Quicksilver, and […]

Via Comics Worth Reading, an excellent site Gone and Forgotten features articles on comics like a Captain America anti-drug comic produced with the FBI, a marvel comic about trucking, the first teen president, and the late unlamented legionaire Karate Kid
Over at Ninth Art, an interview with Jonathan Lethem on his novel Fortress of Solitude. This […]

Good lord, I am watching an episode of What Not to Wear, and it looks like the latest episode maybe features a librarian, or at least someone who works in a library. They mention her going to an annual library conference (stating it is the same as going to an undertakers conference, hmm), maybe she […]

Today I helped a person with a reference question as I was buying some milk at my local convenience store. She was staring at a display of astrological sign decorated cigarette lighters and asked me if I knew what sign was for people who were born in November. I told her I didn’t know, but […]

I seem to be in the habit of thanking institutions now. I must have the Thanksgiving spirit. Today, the Yale Avalon Project saved me while I was at the reference desk. I tend to fear questions dealing with either statistics or government documents. Especially documents that were published before our lovely age of online catalogs. […]

PBS is going to show the Trevor Nunn version of Oklahoma with Hugh Jackman. Now ordinarily I am not a fan of Rodgers & Hammerstein, (I prefer Cole Porter) but I will make an exception if Wolverine is going to be singing “Surrey with a fringe on top”
I think I remember reading in the Helene […]

Via Journalista!, a link that demonstrates how many pages you get for $60 in manga vs American Comics. It made me wonder how many libraries were subscribing to Shonen Jump, and it looks like so far, under 50.
I’m sure that most public libraries don’t have the spare funds to start up new magazine subscriptions, but […]

Well, this is cool, same-sex couples are allowed to marry under the state constitution here. The Boston Globe has put together a special section with newspaper articles covering the case.
PDF about the complaint from the plaintiffs vs the department of public health from FindLaw

All about Alan Moore at Ninth Art.
I saw Master and Commander over the weekend, the battle scenes were very detailed and made me glad I decided to become a librarian instead of joining the British Navy during the 1800s.
I haven’t read any of the Patrick O’Brian books. During my short time working at a bookstore, […]

The plot of “Lost in Traslation” — washed up actor going to Japan to get some money for appearing in commercials is all too real. What is great though, are the sites that archive these lovely commercials like Japander, they even have the notorious Sean Connery ham commercial!
I don’t care if Ewan McGregor is yelling […]