Cat and Girl is possibly the smartest comic out there. Why aren’t you reading it right now? Plus, if you give Dorothy money, she will draw what she spends it on. I like the donation cartoons almost as much as the comic strip itself. Drunk librarians are featured today. (thanks…

I’m a bit late with this, but here’s one for all you children’s librarians out there: Klingon Fairy Tales (from McSweeny’s) "Goldilocks Dies With Honor at the Hands of the Three Bears" "Snow White and the Six Dwarves She Killed With Her Bare Hands and the Seventh Dwarf She Let…

An exerpt from one of my favorite poems by Caroline Knox: The Crybaby at the library. It is raining all over inside the library. Parts of the brick walls are curling up and plaster is falling on the heads and beards of students. It is very dangerous for the books….

I’ve spent an enjoyable afternoon poking around the web looking for grants. I now present you with a braindump of the grant-ese that is currently swirling around in my skull. Mix n’ Match! Build your own funding agency! Try writing an abstract that uses all of the following words: Effective…

Where O where should this nice person go to library school? I got this letter the other day: I was thinking about applying to the Library and Information Science program at Wayne State University here in Detroit and was wondering if you had an opinion on their program? I’d love…

I’m home sick with some sort of sniffy sneezy cold thing. I tried going to work yesterday but my contant snorfing made me a bit self-conscious in my four-person office. I kept getting those "You’d best not be contagious" looks that one gets from coworkers in these situations. So I…

Argh! I’ve been tagged. Kevin Smokler has tagged me in Literary Tag and I am now compelled to answer the following questions: 1. How many books do I own? Too damn many. We bought this huge bookcase and painted it red, and now it stands in the living room looming…

Does anyone have any suggestions for preventing rural Michigan thugs from peeing on the back of my mom’s library building late at night? I suggested an electric fence but she won’t listen to me.