Bobbi Newman

can i like this 9 more times? When can I buy it? Can we vote on the top Shovers and Makers? - Secret Squirrel

Bam! I've made new T-shirts: http://www.cafepress.com/libra... Do the fonts look OK? I'm thinking the "Shovers & Makers" needs to be larger. - joshua m. neff

YES! I agree the Shovers & Makers need to be bigger too. - Nikki D. ~ eagledawg

let me know when you've made them bigger so I can order mine! - Bobbi Newman

heh I actually found a CueCat to do this. just have to get the right connector so I can hook it up to the laptop. ah, library geeks. - holly

I think we have a CueCat in a desk drawer around here. - Laura B.

You exaggerate, but I'm honored all the same. - Steve Lawson

I SO do not exaggerate. - Dorothea Salo

Ha! I laughed out loud and startled my cats! - Katy Southern

brilliant! - Bobbi Newman

Still laughing - Candy Schwartz

I've read it 5 or 6 times now and it gets better every time. :) - lris

nicely done, Steve. - Jenica

AL is soo ancient history already. blah blah blah *shurg* whatever (sry, not reading AL stuff or stuff about AL) - AaronTheLibrarian

very well done Steve - Andrew Shuping

If the AL appears on the ticket for any office of the ALA, then we'll know that SL is the AL, and I will totally vote for "her". - DJF

Thanks for all the comments. Vote AL in 2009! - Steve Lawson

Wow!! That is crazy, Tab! - Robin M. Hastings

I know! Of course, dad waits until the end of telling the entire thing before he tells me my brother is okay. I ran through a whole gambit of emotions there! - Tab

omg, I glad he's okay. holy shit. - Secret Squirrel

Want me to run over there and kick your dad for you? - Robin M. Hastings

He apologized, but maybe he could still use a kick... - Tab

Why do you hate America? - Steve Lawson

I don't listen to NPR at all. Feel like I'm the only librarian who doesn't. Prefer rock music when I'm listening to the radio, otherwise, audiobooks. - Katie

Katie, I don't do NPR, either. - Laura B.

NPR drives me insane. The way that it sounds drives me insane. Ugh. And it's so precious. /mean - Meg vM

Yeah, it's true, I'd WAY rather listen to my f--d up local college indie station than NPR slick sweetness. - Matt Hamilton

Not a big NPR fan here either. I listen to the news at the top of the hour, but that's about it. TAL = blech, imho. - Stephanie♥CogSciLibrarian

Can I just put in small shout out, though, to Radio Lab? Some might find it twee in an NPR way, but I find it often blows my mind. - Stephen Francoeur

I'll admit to being a fan of This American Life, but I found this parody to be funny all the same. http://www.boingboing.net/2007... - Stephen Francoeur

Meg, we are soul mates. I can't stand that show and all my friends think I'm weird. - flaming horse

Now I feel lame because I like both NPR and PRI. (Note: TAL, and PHC, are both PRI productions, not NPR productions, although they air on NPR affiliates.) Well, I like much of it. There are things I cannot stand, although TAL is not one of them. - laura x

I listen to NPR as a news outlet, not for life stories or movie.book reviews... It's that or conservative talk shows. Rock Radio is really bad here in Gainesville ever since our local Indy station sold out... - Altruistic Librarian

It could be one of those things that one tends to like or dislike depending on geography. I tended to listen to NPR a lot more when I was in college in southwestern New Hampshire (not so much years later next to DC). Especially good on a sunny, lazy weekend late afternoon or early evening in late spring or summer. - Julian

I wouldn't say I'm a fan of TAL, since I rarely listen to the radio at all, but I LOVED the episode from 4/28 this year, because there was this hilarious story about hamsters. - Låura Harris

I will admit that sometimes I find the TAL stories quite compelling. However, the guys voice kind of irks me. Never seen the TV version of it. - LauraBrarian

I'll admit it, I love This American Life and I have a crush on Ira Glass! ;-) - Bobbi Newman

NPR is the smartest outlet in the mainstream media. I love This American Life, On Point and Fresh Air. On Point carries more meaningful content in an hour than do all the cable tv news networks in a week. Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin fans tend to hate NPR. They have trouble with all the big words and nuanced ideas. - Sean McBride

have not seen the TV version, but i love the radio version. - r0c43LL3

NOOOOOOOOOOO! I Love This American Life! I <3 Ira Glass... - Heidi Blanton-Hansen

Come to think of it, I guess I love it more in retrospect than I do i reality. I hardly ever listen to it anymore, even though several years ago I would listen to it almost every week. I think Julian is onto something. Time and place may have something to do with it. That "Big Pile of Money" episode was pretty great, though. - Steve Lawson

Were most of the NPR haters McCain/Palin supporters? Yes? No? - Sean McBride

not a huge fan of either NPR or McCain/Palin. No correlation here. - Stephanie♥CogSciLibrarian

Oh, I'm with Sean's trenchant, logical analysis all the way. Listen to NPR or the terrorists ^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h Republicans win. - Steve Lawson

@Steve Lawson, I think that's true about how it resonates... I listen to This American Life on podcasts, and lately they've really been hitting home with me. - Heidi Blanton-Hansen

My dirty little secret is that I listen to NPR/PRI more than I do the college radio station I work at. It's good for news and information, though I seem to hate some of the favourites - TAL, Fresh Air, and Prairie Home Companion. I only really care about News and Notes and Marketplace. - flaming horse

Marketplace rocks too. Laser beam focus, understatement, fleet of mind, sharp as a tack. - Sean McBride

Count me in as another librarian that doesn't like NPR. I really was beginning to think that I was the only one. - Sarah G

To the people who dislike NPR: which news sources do you prefer to NPR? - Sean McBride

Sorry, Sean. I actually think NPR is conservative, at least compared to my politics. Your theory = fail. - Matt Hamilton

I have lots of problems with NPR. The may be the most liberal outlet on the radio, but they are far less liberal than they ought to be. And it has been decades since they covered stories that weren't covered in every other news source out there. - RudĩϐЯaЯïaȵ

That said, I enjoy a lot of their programs, most especially Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, and On Point, and local programming in most places is pretty special stuff, with no other place on the dial. - RudĩϐЯaЯïaȵ

If I listen to the radio, I listen to NPR, partly because I like it & partly because almost all of the other radio stations in my area suck rocks. But it isn't nearly as liberal as right-wing blowhards make it out to be (NPR is really centrist, not liberal. It's only liberal compared to Fox and most other mainstream news sources.) I've listen to TAL before, but never a full show & never on purpose. I don't hate it, it's just never been something I've gone out of my way to listen to. - joshua m. neff

Check out the programming for On Point: http://www.onpointradio.org/ It doesn't strike me as either conservative or liberal. Just really smart conversation on important and strategic topics. Which news sources in the mainstream media strike you as superior to this? - Sean McBride

Well, I actually don't listen to the radio at all. If I do, it's just for the indie music on my local college station (low power AM), but even then it's less than 1 hour every 2 months or so.... For news, there's the Internets. - Matt Hamilton

wow, can't wait to hear how it was ;) - Altruistic Librarian

how exciting! - Bobbi Newman