January 2010
*sigh*
Patron: Do you have a copy of "Not Tonight, Mr. Right"?
Me: It looks like we don't have it here, but I might be able to get it from another library though.
Patron: You should have a copy there; us women need it to deal with all the horrible men out there.
Me: I know, WE'RE THE WORST.
OK, who wants to go to work for me and be a librarian for a day so i can stay home and finish watching season one of Damages?
Steady Romance ~ Lady Gaga vs. The Raconteurs
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“The man was an artist, no doubt about it, and his work was always growing in...”
– Dave Eggers on Salinger.
What a strange and wonderful alternate universe it would be in which Eggers had successfully convinced Salinger to publish again. I’m imagining the cover of that day’s New York Times, using the biggest type available to the printer, screaming...
The XX vs. Popular Damage ~ Crystalised (Popular...
“If we look at the world around us, we find out something rather pitiful: that...”
– Richard Feynman
eenymeenymineymissa-deactivated asked: There's a theme of yours that I've been trying to find. Several other blogs I have seen have it but I can't find it. What do I do?
New Orleans vs. Indianapolis in a literary...
Chauncey Mabe breaks down the teams for us:
What do you say? Which city fields the better literary team?
…what a roster Lousiana can muster! First and foremost, of course, Tennessee Williams, followed by Truman Capote. William Faulkner belongs to Mississippi, but he resided in New Orleans for a brief but formative period as a young man. Katherine Anne Porter lived in Baton Rouge as a young...
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Wu Tang vs. The Beatles ~ Got Your Money
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Old 97’s ~ Rollerskate Skinny
“She’s quite...
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Anonymous asked: where do you live?
“That’s what the reality of New York City is — this overwhelming chaos of lives...”
– Jonathan Lethem
The Onion truthiness. →
mthig:
I don’t enjoy that stuff. I don’t enjoy anything. I don’t even want to be here. The sadness and regret I feel every waking hour of my life is absolutely unbearable. I am a miserable pig and I do not want to exist.
The irony is that, even if I did die, the hell I would surely be sent to could not possibly be any worse than the bottomless pool of excrement I already paddle...
poetbabble asked: Were I you, I would find it hard not to commit small surreptitious acts of subterfuge. Printing ideas on small strips of paper and slipping them inside the cover of Sparks and Patterson and Brown books... How do you refrain? Or, do you?
“A million years ago the earth grew cold. Iowa was covered by twenty-five hundred...”
– Amy Gerstler, from The Ice Age
nervousacid asked: I debated the library sciences for a second until I realized I couldn't listen to music at work. Does the silence ever just kill you?
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Lykke Li ~ Little Bit (CSS Remix)
notentirely asked: what type of library do you work at that is open on a sunday??
I can't decide which of today's emails was my...
The one alerting me that “two teens were in the lobby displaying enthusiastic public affection” or the one complaining that our library website does not feature a link to Fox News.
Which one gets your vote?
“…whatever the subject of his poems, it was always love that had fired the...”
– The Guardian profiles Scottish poet Robert Burns.
I’m scared that James Patterson is to our culture’s future illiteracy what the inventor of Skynet was to Judgement Day in the Terminator series. I may need to time travel back to 1976 and stop him before he publishes his first novel.
Slow day on the library’s reference desk. So far I’ve helped only 4 people, one of whom was a reality show reject who now has his sights set on winning the lead role in the upcoming Hobbit film. He wanted to know if we could give him Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro’s home addresses. And he asked us if we thought they would be OK with a Bilbo who wore glasses, since he hates...
“…far to the south of us, an area so reactionary to us that in Berkeley it...”
– Phillip K. Dick, quoted in a fascinating profile of the author in the LA Times.
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Jens Lekman, Pocketful of Money
“I never knew my great-grandfather, but he walked the streets of Dublin on June...”
– Column McCann in The Believer
I love when people talk about how a book is meaningful to them in some personal, specific way. I think at some point in our lives, about the point in which we start to be told that “I” has no place in our essays and our reports, we lose track of the fact...
The XX ~ Teardrops
“These are songs to be sung inches from someone’s ear, preferably with the lights...”
– Sasha-Frere Jones on the XX.
I’m not sure why someone would post the page they’re up to in a book as their Facebook status. Could they not find a bookmark?
Usher ~ In My Bag
What’s in Usher’s...
ragbag asked: would mankind be the loser if the earth should cease to produce gold and silver?
“A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in...”
– Randall Jarrell
laurabird asked: I hope I am right in assuming you're a librarian hah. How long did you have to go to school?
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