Capital-R Romantic Libraries

I was busy aggregating Vic’s feed through my mobile when I read in reference to a collection of essays on Romantic Libraries. – re-reading this sentence informs my rebel aesthetics that this isn’t at all interesting and warrants no reckoning (except that maybe of the Almighty [praise be, praise be]. But, ah …, screw it. I am anxious to mine this jazz to put into context my current library-centered existence – especially a now democratic dissemination of lit. and the aesthete of having read tomes, although canon is losing its grip.

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Incredible amounts of sleep. Ineffective.

This is like an overload of outformation, this sort of dizzying wordy clusterflock geared through self-promotion (even if in the guise of lackluster SMS iReporting – this is a ruse [this is a ruse!])

“Incredible amounts of sleep. Ineffective. Twelve hour shift tomorrrow, inc. detour to Inksmiths.”

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Moving Time // S is For Somewhere

Intending to address the derth of content by pointing you to my new website-in-progress called “S-is-For-Somewhere.” I am still in the layout and code-buggery phase, but hopefully by the end of the week I will begin writing there semi-regularly. Essentially, because I exist at the Blogering Hole and vis-a-vis Bradford County Public Library virtual presence, [...]

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Slamming Canon & American Gods

Jon Evans slams on American Gods - and it smarts. I suppose a lot of readers are seduced more by the prestige of having read something canonized rather than its story. As a librarian I have seen this trend sort of diminish – in books; no one in Bradford County gives a lick about the Great Gatsby [...]

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What Jane Could Never have Guessed

Partly to prepare for Gainesville’s next JASNA get-together (but mostly to stimulate this sort of writerly lull in me), I am going to take a note from the Reading Jane Austen blog (whose link I haven’t around right yet) and intermittently write on eReading P&P. It won’t likely be very aesthete, because I find myself a very [...]

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Henry Selick’s (& NG’s) Coraline

I want to mention that on this past Saturday I was fortunate to watch Coraline in Real3D at – oh – ten-ish. There is a lot I would say, but Joshua Starr says it with grace.

Under Henry Selick’s meticulous direction and with the aid of an excellent cast of voice actors2, Neil Gaiman’s spare, precise novella is transformed into [...]

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Day of de Bourgh: P&P & Zombies II

I was interested to see that most recently the better half (being gore-splattered women, I hope) of my blahggery activity has [probably] been due to blatant curiosity concerning the thread titled Dawn of de Bourgh (moreso than its content) that I plugged on Austenprose. 
Good silly stuff.
Still, I’m curious to see what Seth Graham-Smith does with classic. Many [...]

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Inaugural Tourism

I am indifferent to announce that since this last Sunday I haven’t done much of anything.
I think I ought to document (before I forget) my inaugural weekend as a Floridian tourist (this is months and months since I first moved here) with Kristen R. in St. Augustine. She’s a blast. We ambled around Old City [...]

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Plugged by the School Library Journal

Tthe School Library Journal plugged Chris & I and The Graphic Classroom [and zeroed in on our eh ... manga tone, which was totally subconscious, but that just shows you].

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Dawn of de Bourgh

REJOICE! I have just pre-rdered Chronicle Books‘ Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – the Classic Regency Romance – Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayehm. The zombie threat–as I warned you, I fear–has spanned oceans of time–NAY!, – of genre. Gentle Readers, I beg you iron your wills. I fear we cannot rely on Wickham.  Our advantage is at Pemberly, [...]

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