Archive of 2006 August

Take my Comics…please

on August 15th, 2006 in Comics, Cornell, Librarianship, Links, Michigan by | 5 Comments

I’ve started a library at work. My cataloging system is the whiteboard over my desk. My patrons are co-workers and student employees whom I bully into taking books. My material? Comics. I’m on a mission from Groo. When I was a young Librarian Avenger, I spent many happy years working…

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Typical Ithaca Bike ride

on August 6th, 2006 in Cornell, Life by | 3 Comments

I just took a ride around Cornell’s Bebe Lake, a mile-long loop where the Loch Ness Monster is said to be submerged, having being used as a prop in a silent film back in Ithaca’s glory days. I took the bread-ends that we’d saved in the freezer all winter, hoping…

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Wedding registry does good

on August 6th, 2006 in Avenging by | 5 Comments

It’s about time the Wedding-Industrial Complex held up its end of the social contract. The clever people at the Bowery Mission Women’s Center have set up a wedding registry to help collect items they need for the 18 formerly-homeless women who live at center as they develop the skills to…

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