The image at the top is from a WPA poster…

Kempa on the Fantagraphics Peanuts collections

Good anime to watch on Halloween:
Vampire Hunter D - Classic movie about a half-vampire vampire hunter with a creepy left hand, there’s also a more recent movie (Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust).
Hellsing - Dark and gothic tale of a vampire vampire killer, Alucard who works for the mysterious Hellsing Organization.
Boogiepop Phantom, I haven’t seen this but […]

I was able to spend some time today setting up the blog that my department is going to use for internal communication. It isn’t going to be publically available on the web, so I’m not going to post a link to it, but thanks to the people that stopped by my demo blog earlier and […]

Tinymixtapes! {via} Mixtapes for a variety of moods! I like Songs For A Girl Who Dreams Of Being A Super Hero Called Terrifica, I thought he was a rock star but he just carries his books in a guitar case , A Mixtape to read “The Catcher in the Rye” by, Songs that express the […]

The night shift librarian
was sitting at the desk
She answered many queries
both sublime and grotesque
Look in the architecture section
for construction romanesque
“I can’t download from JSTOR!”
The hapless student cries,
“What’s wrong with acrobat?”
Try photocopying, the librarian replies.
Yes, we do have art books,
in the section ‘oversize’.
The printer says “toner low”
shake the toner cartridge.
Students research stem cells, world wars
Voltaire, psychosis, […]

Its kind of funny that earlier this semester I was slightly anxious about my statistics going down a little bit in terms of the number of classes coming in for the departments that I coordinate. I was just checking my work e-mail (it is probably very sad that I’m checking my work e-mail right before […]

Comics I bought last week: Powers#5 (Yikes!), Ultimate Spiderman & X-Men (Meh…), and Human Target #15 (Hmm…)
I’m looking forward to reading Planetary, Noble Causes, WE 3 (maybe), Blue Monday, Alice 19th (although I haven’t gotten #6 yet), and X 1999.
I got my cheap dvd of the first season of Angel today! It looks like […]

I thought I was teaching one class this evening, but I looked at my schedule and discovered that I was teaching 2 classes. Yikes! Fortunately, I’m in full teaching mode nowadays so suddenly teaching an extra class wasn’t too bad. I was a little punchy by the end of the night. Somedays I’d like to […]

Finally a candidate with a blog who will protect me from vampire bats.
Lookee, I made a sweater!
21 Jump Street is now on DVD. Everything comes to DVD eventually!