Today my blog is one year old. Thanks to everyone who has stopped by and commented. Except you comment spammers. You are not thanked, you minions of evil.
I was going to come out with an open ended pledge to myself to keep blogging for a certain period of time, say, until the Mavs win the [...]

Books in the mail! I love getting books in the mail! Now I can start on The Towers of Trebizond and Baudolino. I also picked up Junko Mizuno’s Princess Mermaid. The art is in color (first manga I’ve read with color art) and looks totally trippy.
I finished reading a couple graphic novels over the weekend. [...]

It is hard for me to focus on any current movies, because I am looking forward to Hellboy so much! Hellboy! Who needs to go see a movie about a semi-aryan looking famous Jewish carpenter when you could be seeing a movie that features a sarcastic red demon with the right hand of doom, and [...]

I got caught up on some reading over the weekend. I finished a book of Michael Gilbert’s short stories, Game Without Rules, the first story collection I’ve read that was positively blurbed by both Rex Stout and Eudora Welty. It details the adventures of two 50ish British spies, Mr. Calder and Mr. Behrens who are [...]

For the past year, every couple of months when I drive somebody to the airport, I spend a greater portion of the driving time underground. I had my longest stretch driving through the big dig today on my way home from the airport. I tend to get creeped out if I’m driving and I can’t [...]

This is an interesting example of virtual reference in action, even though it isn’t a librarian answering the questions
http://sylloge.typepad.com/questions/
I must say, I’ve only gotten questions like this a couple times in virtual reference. Most of the questions I’ve gotten have centered around people not really knowing where on their library’s web page to click [...]

It is a little odd for me to wake up to no snow on the ground, and on my way home from work spot people cross country skiing on campus.
Someone came to the reference desk dressed in a tuxedo, with a tie and cummerbund and everything looking for chemistry textbooks. Who knew future chemists were [...]

I wonder if future music archaeologists will be able to reconstruct our pop music by taking apart all the Jay-Z remixes. Like Jay-Zeezer = Black Album + Weezer’s Blue Album (via Waxy).
Cerebus #300 came out and I forgot to go to the comic book store, but Ninth Art wraps it up. Evidently part of the [...]

I do love reading books that feature characters who love reading. I just started reading Inkheart by Cornelia Funke and I know I’m going to love it because it features quotes from other books in the opening of every chapter. This seems fitting as the main character Meggie is beginning to discover her that [...]

Wow, Fanboy Rampage, source of endless comic book goodness posted this image today:

Clearly that Man-Ape with the gun is an impassioned library patron. We need that type of enthusiasm for reading more than ever. I’d love to give books to someone who thinks that reading the classics will help them conquer the world. I might [...]