Nat says it is poem on your blog day, so here I go, this is Dogen’s Death Poem from the book Moon in a Dewdrop:
Fifty-four years lighting up the sky.
A quivering leap smashes a billion worlds.
Hah!
Entire body looks for nothing.
Living, I plunge into Yellow Springs.

Mike Bibby is Satan.

I’m going to pretend for a moment that I’m the craftylibrarian, and blog about knitting!
The image below is a semi-collage of everything I’ve made so far:

Basically a blue scarf, striped scarf, a striped hat, a baby blanket (not for me, I am not spawning any offspring) and I’m working on a giant wrap thing made […]

Via Thought Balloons, Tokyopop is going to develop NBA sports cine-manga. Huh. Cine-manga, for those of you who might not be familiar with the genre, is a comic book created out of images that weren’t originally intended to be in comic book form so you end up with “manga” created from things like the Lizzie […]

Russell Crowe is going to give some cash to rebuild the library that was fire bombed at a Jewish elementary school in Montreal.

Tyson Smith left a comment on my earlier post about what looks to be a delightful all ages comic book. They now have a preview site up and you can read the first chapter online.
It made for some relaxing reading after a hectic day at work, and seeing more of the comic book makes me […]

What to do when your website is down:
1) Introduce students to the joy and wonder that is the telnet version of the online catalog.
2) Print indexes are great to have around, specifically the old reliable Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature for those students with more general topics to work on.
3) Fun with advanced search […]

Inspired by the recent post over at Rawbrick, suspecting my summer movie preview issue of Entertainment Weekley is lost in the mail, and having some extra time at the desk between telling people where the books are, I engaged in intensive research to compile the following list of movies I want to see this summer:
Wolverine […]

If I was doing collection development as a children’s librarian, I would totally get Emily and the Intergalactic Lemonade Stand. The preview looks so cute! (via previewsreview)

I agree with my little sisters that “Dude!” is an appropriate response to Kill Bill Vol 2. I especially enjoyed the bits of Ennio Morricone’s spaghetti western work on the soundtrack.
It did make me wonder if I could go on a “roaring rampage of revenge” at work. Perhaps the people who come up to […]