I’m not totally sure what to do about the new pricing scheme for Movabletype 3.0. It isn’t like my blog will break if I don’t upgrade. I think one of the nice things about not moving to 3.0 is that I’d still be able to set up as many other blogs as I wanted to. [...]

The latest issue of Bookslut has an interview with Steven Brust.

Grotesque Anatomy points to a Seaguy preview at Mile High comics. Death is so adorable. I have to buy this!

A situation the other day reminded me of the this Theodore Roethke poem:
DOLOR
I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils,
Neat in their boxes, dolor of pad and paper weight,
All the misery of manilla folders and mucilage,
Desolation in immaculate public places,
Lonely reception room, lavatory, switchboard,
The unalterable pathos of basin and pitcher,
Ritual of multigraph, paper-clip, comma,
Endless duplication [...]

I was a little surprised when I was skimming some of the vaguely spammy e-mail I got sent from “library worklife” from ALA-APA. The e-mail was the text of this newsletter, and the last item leads to a story about blogging. Icontemplate gets a mention, one of Nat’s entries is excerpted in the newsletter

Via Waxy, MSNBC has an interview with her, they ask her about the tv movie of “A wrinkle in time”
And did it meet expectations?
Oh, yes. I expected it to be bad, and it is.
Ha!

I accidently caught a couple minutes of the ABC tv movie “A Wrinkle in Time“. I don’t know if it was just bad casting or the product of reading the book so often when I was younger, but my reaction was “Yikes, that isn’t Meg! No, that isn’t Calvin! No way is that Charles Wallace…Alfre [...]

Wow, check out this thread on Lisnews, where everyone debates the issues of a library happening to own a copy of “Heather has two mommies”

So I decided to wait for the trade for Love Fights after I accidently missed several issues. The first trade is out now. One subgenre of superhero comics that seems to have become more popular in the last few years is the “ordinary people just trying to live their lives in a world filled with [...]

So one of my friends was celebrating a birthday today and got a group together to go to finale. I had a bit of a long day at work, but it does feel theraputic at the end of the day to eat something like this molten chocolate dessert, which is chocolate cake with a warm [...]