Tweet Poetry

Web 2.0 in its highest form.  Egads.

 

more about “William Shatner Reads Levi Johnston’s…“, posted with vodpod

 

the horror…

Just finished At the Mountains of Madness by Lovecraft.  Fascinating, no dialogue whatsoever.  A good book to cleanse one’s reading palate, though I admire Lovecraft’s gift for vivid description.

getting chatty on LT

One cool relatively new aspect to LibraryThing is its ability not only to to get authors to sign up for their own profile on the site, but to participate in extended chats about their works as well as books and stuff in general.

I’m a fan of Hannah Tinti after reading her work Animal Crackers.  She’s taking questions on LT till the 4th.

alternator

Seeing as this is a library related blog, I noticed how many music related posts I have been making.  So I thought why not make a music reated blog in addititon to this one.  So I did, and called it alternator.  Just saying.

when you think of librarians…

Forwarded by a friend…Cat and Girl.

Looted

The National Archives needs to hire Nicolas Cage. Stat!

WASHINGTON (AP) — Visitors to the National Archives here know they will find the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the main building’s magnificent rotunda.

But they can no longer find the patent file for the Wright brothers’ flying machine or maps for the first atomic bomb missions in the archives inventory.

Many historical items the archives once possessed are missing, including Civil War telegrams from Abraham Lincoln, presidential portraits of Franklin D. Roosevelt, NASA photographs from space and the moon, and presidential pardons.

Some were stolen by researchers or archives employees. Others simply disappeared. And more than that is gone.

What’s going on around here? You’d think this was the the National Museum of Iraq. Or something.

planet china

Very similar to what Troost has documented in his book.  In Guangzhou:

A man threatening to commit suicide by jumping from a Chinese bridge was approached by a passer-by who shoved him over the edge, local media say.

…

Mr Lai is said to have then broken through the police cordon, climbed to where Mr Chen sat, greeted him with a handshake – and then pushed him off the edge.

Things are different in China.

self-entitlement in 3 easy steps

That’s easy…become a CEO, politician, or… librarian.

book lust – the wrong kind

To be filed within the “interesting bookmarks” taxonomy. Someone loves Shakespeare’s Hamlet commentary a little too much.

epiphany

Master storysmith Neil Gaiman brilliantly incorporates the necessity of libraries and literacy within his latest, and lo, a Newberry is bestowed.  As it should be.