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The Correctness Party
An excellent description of life in my house growing up, by Garrison Keillor of Salon magazine: A college graduate just sent me an e-mail asking about a band that "one" a contest, wishing she had been "their" to see it. Misspelling drives me nuts. You young people learned spelling by the Close Enough method. As
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Good Luck and Happy May Day
There are many ways of celebrating May 1 (also variously known as May Day, Beltane, and International Workers’ Day), some of which are rather more risque (and fun!) than others. A less fun option is bellowing about one’s favorite cause on the Internet. Two groups in particular drive me nuts: the Socialists and the Capitalists.
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50 Best Cult Books, from the Telegraph
One good book list deserves another. The UK Telegraph has already described their version of the "perfect library" (a far, far too conservative selection for many but worthwhile selections just the same), so now they weigh in with their votes for the "50 Best Cult Books." It’s an interesting list, considering what got in and
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The Perfect Library, From The Telegraph
Rejoice, for the weekend is nearly upon us. (Yay!) If you have some time for reading this weekend, you might take a look at the UK Telegraph’s list of "110 Books: The Perfect Library." I’m sort of disappointed that Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash did not make the list, but I approve of what science fiction
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The Audacity of Depression, by Joe Bageant
No introduction I could possibly write would do justice to this great article by Joe Bageant, so I’m just going to post the first few paragraphs then provide a link: The Audacity of Depression By JOE BAGEANT One of the best things about the hundred or so book festivals in America is that, with luck,
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Lara Frater, Author, Librarian, & Fat Chick on NPR Today
From WNYC’s web site: Anna Kirkland, assistant professor of women’s studies and political science at the University of Michigan and author of Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood, and blogger Lara Frater, author of Fat Chicks Rule!: How To Survive in a Thin-Centric World, look at the legal question of discrimination against the overweight.
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Gaming Day at New York Public Library
In the depths of my disgust at the news of the New York Public Library’s name change yesterday I completely missed this rather cool bit of news: Friday is gaming day at NYPL . The article in the time is called "Taking Play Seriously at the Public Library With Young Video Gamers," and it begins:
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NY Public Library Sells Out for (Not So) Big Bucks
I’m the first to admit it: I am a big, fat, wallowing cynic and have been since I was about twelve years old. So news items like the following headline from Alternet.org don’t surprise me. They should–I would dearly love them to–but they just don’t and that is likely to say a lot more about
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Kill the Library! Kill it! Kill it!
A link to this op-ed in the Gainesville Sun has been making the rounds of the library grapevine, mostly on PUBLIB but also on TSLIBRARIANS, which is where I read it. It’s an anti-library rant, and not a very coherent one at that. Since it’s been a couple of years since I last gave an
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Deep Captured? Something to Think About
Now that the weekend is upon us, I present you with some reading material. No introduction for this article, except to say that if you are (or have been, or plan to be) heavily invested in "the market"–by which phrase we generally mean the financial institutions in which we park our life’s savings in hope