MangaBlog continues to do a great job gathering together all the stories about the removal of Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics from the San Bernardino County Library system. I’m surprised that so far we haven’t seen any commentary from library oriented publications about the removal process, which seems a little irregular to me. Well, [...]

I taught my last 2 classes today. I’m spending a bunch of time now documenting things and finishing projects. I’ve thrown out a surprising amount of paper I was keeping in my files - just stuff for my personal use, the next person who has my job is going to inherit a few legacy files [...]

I just got back from Salt Lake City, I visited the future Mr. Tangognat and checked out our condo with renovations in progress. We bought the place in November from a woman who had a very strange idea of interior decoration. She used a lot of dark green and dark red, and the second bedroom [...]

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Were the topic of my favorite reference question this week, as I gave some students advice about the shopping areas close to the red or green lines where one would be able to buy certain kinds of shoes and cosmetics. It was a slow Friday at the desk.
There’s supposed to be a big snowstorm [...]

I’m going to be moving away from the Boston area this spring right before my wedding. This actually hit me pretty hard today, when I was figuring out how much time I had left here and realized that I’m going to have my current job for three months before heading into voluntary unemployment and moving [...]

I unearthed a couple of mix CDs that had a few random Mojo Nixon songs, so that made me happy.
Check out It can’t all be about manga, the blog of a library person who knits and who seems to buy more manga than I do every month. Maybe she’s my long-lost Canadian blogger twin?
Speaking [...]

I’m having a relaxing Thanksgiving break. I’ve read 4 Nero Wolfe mysteries. I went to see Rent. I thought that the recent Pride and Prejudice movie was very good. I especially liked Mr. Bingley, who was the Bingliest of all Bingleys - very adorable. The walking on the misty moors scene substituted nicely for [...]

I’ve been so busy at work, it didn’t really sink in until late last week that I’m going away for Thanksgiving Vacation! I taught two classes today, and I have one more class to teach when I get back. Then I’ll be all done with teaching for this semester. I’m really looking forward to not [...]

Trusty Plinko Stick reveals his Pez collection. This makes me feel better about my yarn closet. Wait, I don’t really have a yarn closet. Forget I said that!
Johanna points out Fool’s Gold, one of the better looking upcoming OEL manga from Toykopop. You can read some of the previews here. Tokyopop is putting out a [...]