Here I am being somewhat lackadaisical at my post (I’d gather I’m leaning against a bookcase, absently watching another’s chess game) when a quirky thing named Sadie, who was adorable (she looked like you, Les! – what with wild hair ["If only we could get her to comb it," her dad says], a gypsy-skirt, and [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Literary Inspiration to Procreate — (Ladies?) & A Bookish Anecdote
Posted in Bradford Library, Excessively Diverting, tagged Bookish Anecdote, Librarian Progeny on November 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Oops!, a Tangent; & In Defense of Comics
Posted in Bradford Library, Other Writers, tagged Comic Literature, Graphic Classroom on November 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The editor of the Graphic Classroom [Chris Wilson] was invited to write a feature for 417 Magazine in defense of comics.
Many children and teens hate reading because they are taught early on to read only the literature that adults deem important, not necessarily what the child might deem interesting. Comic literature, as it turns out, [...]
Neil Gaiman & the Tyrannical Tambourine [jangle jangle]
Posted in Excessively Diverting, Neil Gaiman, tagged Creepy Doll, Neil Gaiman, Paul and Storm on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So, I thought this was silly. Neil Gaiman reads from Creepy Doll, then descends subsequently into tambourin[ical] tyranny (okay, so maybe it’s not all that tyrannical; the phrase, however, is alliterative [if nonsense]). Here he is on stage with Paul-and-Storm in Manchester and the Tyrannical Tambourine [jangle].
Dorian Gray, the Comic [?] & Jane Eyre, the Musical [!?]
Posted in Book Reviews, Excessively Diverting, Northern Florida, Other Writers, The Graphic Classroom, tagged Book Review, Gainesville Community Playhouse, Jane Eyre, Marvel Illustrated: The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Graphic Classroom, The Picture of Dorian Gray on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Inordinately and comically busy, what with the Library’s Great Pumpkin Escape, the Why Waste Good Technology on Science and Medicine? open-gaming event, and planning November 15ths O-GE in honor of the ALA’s first annual National Gaming Day. Oy.
I will be attending the Gainesville Community Playhouse presentation of Jane Eyre: The Musical (what!?) sometime in this next week, [even [...]
– a Dash,
- Kristen bought me the 4-pack Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles DVD. I am in love. 11 hours ago
[Irreferential]
- Today: teens get shushed from supervisor; the modern youngin' librarian, however, gets to say Shutup. Perk! 3 months ago
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Jane Eyre by Amy Corzine
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