The Hebrew Hammer, starring Adam Goldberg as Mordechai Jefferson Carver, “the baddest Heeb this side of Tel Aviv, a stylish strongman, a protector of the innocent, a man’s mensch in these troubled times” who fights Santa’s evil son Damian Claus (Andy Dick) with the help of the Jewish Justice League and the Kwanzaa Liberation Front.
Wow, [...]

Why when I search amazon for x-men am I presented with the following list of products?
X2-Xmen United dvd (fine)
Men’s performance fleece pullovers from old navy
Coat from timberland
and a Jersey for the Denver Nuggets?!!!?
I’m sort of insulted that Amazon thinks people looking for X-men are fans of the Denver Nuggets.

Sequential Tart has an excellent article outlining why anime characters look the way they do , tracing the development of anime character design in Japan.
Panel discussion of character designers from anime expo 2000, “Here, you have panelists also suffering from sleep deprivation and/or hangovers, so please forgive our behavior!”
Anime Power Generator, I got “Enlightenment Stone [...]

Today I had someone say they were sorry for bothering me at the reference desk because they were worried I was studying. Either I look like a young college student, or I need to stop appearing so studious!
Sometimes I hate hate hate the format/source formulas professors expect students to follow when they are doing research [...]

Ah, back from Thanksgiving vacation! And I don’t have to teach any classes for many weeks, this feels very luxurious.
Much more bloggery tomorrow.
Mark Millar and Grant Morrison Simpsons style deathmatch via link machine go

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. [...]