The book collecting the entire series of Bone is available for pre-order on Amazon, $27 for 1300 pages is a great deal, but I wonder how well the book will hold together. It probably wouldn’t be a great purchase for a library, I don’t think it would stand up to book drops and repeated circulation. [...]

Seriously!

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It is very cool that the Indiana State Library has also started a blog (via lisblogsource).
And from Germany (land of ~1/3rd of my ancestors)
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Dr Strange is back! Now that Marvel is debt free (via neilalien), they should celebrate by bringing back other 1970s characters like Warlock (I’m always impressed by Wikipedia’s comic book coverage).
Comic World News’ Spin Doctors looks at the ethnically diverse superfriends.
Alas, Mr Whedon a review of Astonishing X-Men #1 (I haven’t read this despite its [...]

Here is new(ish) book related meme going around, you take this list of classics and bold the ones you’ve read:

So it was a little funny that just as I was switching to Wordpress, Sixapart announced the new licensing and pricing rules for Movable Type, which are much more reasonable. But somewhere between the initial announcement and now, using open source software to power my blog became more important to me. And I liked wordpress. [...]

For the second time. On my first install I did something to totally muck everything up. So I deleted everything and started over again. I might not be able to do redirects on my old posts, so I’m sorry for any broken links you may encounter
Now I’m going to drink for a bit and [...]

The Stranger lists the dangers to life and limb found at the Seattle Public Library.

I saw Day After Tomorrow yesterday. I think it has been my least favorite summer movie so far. The movie was not ruined by the couple of 4 year old children who would run across the movie theater or randomly scream “Mommy!” every 15 minutes or so, actually the rampaging children made the viewing experience [...]

One of the benefits of having a birthday, and having many delightful friends and relatives who give you presents, is that I no longer have to worry about what I’m reading next. If I add to the pile all the things I’ve bought myself, I have my next couple months reading lined up (I’m putting [...]