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Marianne
I'm sure I must be up to something, and I will not stop until I find out what.
Wild Libraries I Have Known: Quiet Reading Room at the Amundsen Scott South Pole Station « Pickle Me This: Online Home of Kerry Clare - http://www.picklemethis.com/2012...
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"As the station is such a public place, there are not many locations within it that offer some sort of quiet. People go here to read, write letters, and nap when they don’t want to make the long trek to their rooms. This room is also used by visiting clergy for Masses and church services."
- Marianne
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Iron & Wine - The Trapeze Swinger - Live @ ACL - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Dear Charles Dickens, Thank you for brightening my childhood summers with Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, and David Copperfield. I forgive you for the horrible things your influence has done to my writing, and I'm glad you were so prolific; I have the sense that there will always be more of you for me to read. Happy birthday! Love, Marianne
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PS Someday I may even try the Pickwick Papers again. I suspect that as an eight-year-old, I probably didn't give them a fair shake.
- Marianne
I am craving rosemary - one of the oddest cravings I've experienced in a while. (Also, rather hard to satisfy when at work.)
Marco and Paulo from Cirque du Soleil - Laureus Awards 2010 - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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These guys are my favorite circus act of all time (a high bar), so it was nice to stumble across them on YouTube.
- Marianne
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Whenever I see these guys I wonder if it really is a case of jaw-dropping strength or if, like magicians, there are hidden wires and other implements of illusion somewhere.
- Soup in a TARDIS
I'm pretty sure it's the former. In this particular recording, you can see them almost screw up (not for effect) a couple of times, in ways that I don't think would happen with physical supports.
- Marianne
Reading Kills on Vimeo - http://vimeo.com/33877437
This is demented, andbut I really like it.
- Marianne
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Eve's Alexandria: That Old Black Magic - http://evesalexandria.typepad.com/eves_al...
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"Ah, that old tale: Boy meets girl, girl hates boy on sight, boy returns the favour, boy rescues girl from certain death, boy lies on top of girl in the forest for several hours (essential for hiding from pursuers, of course), girl and boy are forced to travel together and bicker like crazy at every step. What happens next, readers? If you said, “Girl and boy go their separate ways and never think about each other again”, you’re either a) wildly optimistic, well done, or b) new to this whole reading thing, aren’t you?"
- Marianne
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Have I mentioned lately that I really love Eve's Alexandria? Because, my friends, I really do.
- Marianne
I still occasionally feel culture shock, thirteen years after moving to America. (My flavor of Canadian is rather more British than not, so this table made me laugh.) #saturdayff - http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos...
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Spell-check is slowly and subversively killing my ability to spell, since both the British and American dictionaries are wrong.
- DJF
Attending an American college for a year killed mine, DJF. :)
- Marianne
Also, closely related to "I'm sure it's my fault" is my habit of saying, "I'm confused."
- DJF
"i'll bear it in mind" - yup. i use that all the time.
- jambina
"quite good" always catches me, although I do catch the meaning of the common addendum, "if you like that sort of thing."
- DJF
(sometimes, at least in the Maritimes, "quite good" also means absolutely fucking brilliant, I cannot believe how great that is, and I'm attempting to contain my schoolgirl squees. You know, depending.)
- Marianne
10:30 pm dinner tonight is a bottle of raspberry lambic and half a pack of cinnamon toast rice cakes. #exertingmyadulthood #longweek
Laaaaaaaaambic!
- Soup in a TARDIS
What's up (What's Going On)- 4 Non Blondes Acoustic Cover (Jorge and Alexa Narvaez) - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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afternoon bumpage for needed cheer
- Marianne
:D
- Your Neighbor Steve
And the end!
- Your Neighbor Steve
In response to SOPA/PIPA, I am releasing some of my photographs to the public domain. | Compound Eye, Scientific American Blog Network - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/compoun...
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Hey, this is pretty cool. (As you may have guessed, it's also not recommended for the bug-averse.)
- Marianne
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I do not remember the last time I tried to simultaneously train two people at once about two different jobs for an entire afternoon. Hoo doggies. Luckily, they are both awesome, so it worked out ok.
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Protest SOPA, anywhere your vendors are | SLA Academic Division - http://academic.sla.org/?p=783
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lris's Protest SOPA coupons, now on SLA Academic Blog. (I have it on very good authority that the author of this blog post wanted to write nothing more than THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER AND YOU SHOULD ALL GET INVOLVED RIGHT NOW I MEAN YESTERDAY, but then worked the post over a bit to be more appropriate to the venue.)
- Marianne
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Neat! And they're not *my* protest coupons, they're LSW's, and Steve did as much work on them as I did.
- lris
well done Marianne!
- jambina
*ahem* Iris and Steve's and everyone's protest coupons. Wuz distracted, sorry.
- Marianne
I made the map! This is like a scavenger hunt!
- Andy
Piracy: the intellectual property wars from Gutenberg to Gates - Adrian Johns - Google Books - http://books.google.com/books...
I checked this out to read over break, because it looked dreadfully witty, but never got to it. Now I keep thinking I should either read it or bring it back to the library. Also I am remembering the extremely aged Round Tuit that my grandfather had nailed to his mantel. *ponders* *goes back to her light gothic novel du jour*
- Marianne
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Maybe I will start reading it on Wednesday. Seems a propos.
- Marianne
I don't know if "witty" is the word for Johns. "Perceptive," yes. I find that I admire him more than I have been actually able to read him. Let me know if/when you start again and I may try then, too.
- Your Neighbor Steve
I agree with Steve; I couldn't get through it either. You know how some humanists kind of get trapped in their own cleverness, wordplay, and erudition? Yeah. It's like that.
- RepoRat
Hm. I do know, and yet I usually like those books and am now more intrigued than I was previously. Steve, I'll let you know if I do pick it up.
- Marianne
The Czar Russian Imperial Stout - http://www.averybrewing.com/our-ale...
Starting the semester off right with 22 oz of this. #longweek #advantagesofdistanceeducation
- Marianne
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http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi... Proceedings of the 1900 ALA conference, in Montreal. Love this kind of stuff. (via Library History Buff Blog, http://libraryhistorybuff.blogspot.com/2012...)
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morning bump in case any one else wants to be curious, horrified, and entranced :>.
- Marianne
"One should not neglect from time to time to renew friendly relations by personal intercourse." i'm choosing to interpret that part as naughtily as possible.
- jambina
amy, is there another way?
- Jenica
Amy, that is my policy as well. (the method of renewing friendly relations as well as the interpretation)
- DJF
Vertigo: Graphic Content » Blog Archive » JOE THE BARBARIAN collected in HC for the first time! - http://vertigo.blog.dccomics.com/2011...
Anybody else been reading this? I loved it. Great balance of several different tensions, and the art's superb.
- Marianne
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Liking so I can come back and explore.
- Derrick
I remember hearing about this comic and thinking I should read it, so thanks for the reminder!
- Andrew C (✓)
I read all but the last issue in monthly installments. I meant to go back and read 'em all in a row. Someday soon.
- Your Neighbor Steve
Bell, D.A. and de-Shalit, A.: The Spirit of Cities: Why the Identity of a City Matters in a Global Age. - http://press.princeton.edu/titles...
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Another in the series of "Books Marianne will read someday (maybe over Christmas!) when she gets enough of her brain back to read them." I'm really drawn to this one, and not just because it has a chapter on Montreal.
- Marianne
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About halfway through this. So far I like the tangential/illustrative stuff the best. It's quite good.
- Marianne
top 3 titles of 2011 - http://maribou.livejournal.com/330697...
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The very most wonderful of all the wonderful books I read in 2011 were Jo Walton's Among Others, Lynda Barry's Picture This!, and the Astro City graphic novels by Kurt Busiek and some other guys.
- Marianne
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Selfish during the day bump: anyone have favorites of their own they wanna enthuse about?
- Marianne
Top 3? In no order, "A Fighter's Heart" by Sam Sheridan; "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe" by Charles Yu; and "House of Tomorrow" by Peter Bognanni. (Thanks for the tip on that last one, Marianne.) A special mention to Zak Smith's "Vornheim: The Complete City Kit," a role-playing game book which dominated my imagination this year.
- Your Neighbor Steve
Cathrynne M. Valente's "Palimpsest," and Kevin Wilson's "Tunneling to the Center of the Earth" (short stories) and Stan Rice's "Red to the Rind" were my top 3 of this past year.
- ωαřмaiden BrokerPokerface
*shifts Palimpsest and How to Live Safely further up in the books-I-wanna-read queue*
- Marianne
I read one of Valente's books, found it surprisingly offputting for something that should have been very engaging. Have been unexcited about trying the rest of her work -- even the new one about the girl who sails somewhere? And, I waffled back and forth a dozen times before putting my (unread) (for a decade or so) Jo Walton books into the give away pile, Should I retrieve?
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
Rudi, Walton's probably my second-favorite living writer, but only you can decide what you wanna read :) (said in my best Smokey the Bear voice). What did you like last year?
- Marianne
Ditto on Among Others. Also Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson and Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones. Although man, I read a lot of good books last year.
- laura x
@Rudi - Valente goes overboard with language, so Palimpsest was at least as much a poem as a novel, but I enjoyed it (and the premise was fascinating). I havent read anything else by her yet.
- ωαřмaiden BrokerPokerface
I read Valente's "The girl who circumnavigated fairyland." The language is lovely - there are some beautiful sentences - but sometimes I got tired with the story. So, I was conflicted about it.
- Katy S
Spent the morning drinking potsful of gunner's tea, reading comics that make me fondly remember being twenty, and eating whatever I want (so far, a bagel with blood orange / apricot jam, and a whole bag of rice/adzuki bean chips). There are worse ways to be sick, I tell you what. #vacationmakeseverythingbetter
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KARKWA - Echapper au Sort - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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The animation in this is beautiful.
- Marianne
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I am just about to leave the house in candy-striped mostly pink fleece pants, turquoise chenille socks, and a navy-and-orange college t-shirt. Which I will probably adorn with a red coat and a rust-colored scarf. #hardcorevacationmode
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The inner 5-year-old has to have her chance to dress me at least once or twice a year ;).
- Marianne
Mr. 4 and his orange shoes, red fleece pants, and maroon sweatshirt* salute you.
- Catherine Pellegrino
*srsly, that's what he's wearing today.
- Catherine Pellegrino
I approve.:)
- Marianne
It's snowing outside and I'm wearing shorts. I'm pretty sure little kid me dressed me, as well.
- Katy S
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"The Interstitial Library proper—of which our Circulating Collection is both extension and anticipation—was founded in the future, which makes tracing its history both more difficult and less."
- Marianne
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Also, "The way we organize our books is the way books organize themselves in the everyday practises of readers, booksellers, those who collect and those who discard and those who sweep up the leavings and cart them to the dump, children and dogs who gnaw on books, those who worship books as sacred objects as well as book burners and those who use books as objets d'art and the small business operations that saw out the center of books to use to stash money and drugs,..."
- Marianne
Cosily home from spending several lovely days with marthalib and her Sarah (and their sweet dog), and tucked into bed with Jay, watching Samurai Jack cartoons. Happy New Year, y'all.
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Happy New Year!
- Moody (Sweet FA 4 Life)
We made it through 2 episodes and then we fell asleep. Jay says, "Midnight is later than it used to be."
- Marianne
jonathan_lethem-2011.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object) - http://bookotron.com/agony...
50 minute interview with Jonathan Lethem, by Rick Kleffel, released under "the CC license". Enjoy. (via Stephen Francoeur, via Boing Boing)
- Marianne
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(I'd repost it here as a file, she said sulkily, but I am over my file limit.)
- Marianne
About halfway through now. As usual, not a huge fan of the interviewer-who-talks-in-long-paragraphs approach, but it's getting Lethem to talk lots, so who am I to complain? This whole site intrigues me. Tons of interviews I'm curious to hear.
- Marianne
Ooh, bonus discussion of Philip K. Dick.
- Marianne
The Best Things in Life are Free but Eat a Lot; or, the Summer of Sixteen Cats - http://ordinary-gentlemen.com/blog...
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Happy holidays, Ffriends! Jay and I wrote this together. "May good things just sort of happen to you in 2012, and may you be as pleased by them as we are."
- Marianne
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Love this. (I read somewhere that cats are the only animals who actively participated in their domestication. They're not stupid.) Many good wishes to you and yours!
- Catherine Pellegrino
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Got my final grades back for this semester. Bullets.
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Wait, what?
- Derrick
I worked damn hard for them, too. I was going to say "I don't remember working this hard last time around," but then I started having flashbacks to spending every Saturday figuring out stuff like the key tactile differences between 30 different species of squirrel skeletons, and I changed my mind. Of couse, last time around was NINE YEARS AGO, so no wonder it's a bit hazy.
- Marianne
Oh, okay. WHEW! :)
- Derrick
Bullets are pocket aces. Guess they're not too pocket since I'm posting them for the whole world to see and all...
- Marianne
You kids with your funny speak! ;-)
- Derrick
So proud of you, M. Congrats on your successful first semester.
- Derrick
Thanks, D. You're a good role model:).
- Marianne
Good job!
- Meg VMeg
Sometimes, a 7 2 off suite can beat pocket aces.... Might get a flush or straight on the river.
- The Ghost of Library Past
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Joe, we actually call 7-2 offsuit an "Andy Johnson" at our poker table. As you can surmise, there's some backstory there :D.
- Marianne
Did he win or loose with that hand?
- The Ghost of Library Past
Yes. Many times.
- Marianne
Me: I guess it is time to get up and go take care of those labs so it can be over with.
Him: They've taken enough blood out of you to make a whole new Marianne!!!
- Marianne
Me: Heh.
- Marianne
Him: No, seriously. I'm beginning to suspect you of doping.
- Marianne
Me: Whaaat?
- Marianne
Him: Yep. They take all that blood out, and then they give it back to you, like, before a test or something.
- Marianne
Me: If you start making Fantastic Four jokes about the X-rays, I'm leaving you at the clinic.
- Marianne
Heh. I have a good many holes in the insides of my elbows too. (I will say that the phlebotomist at my doc's office is very good at his job.)
- RepoRat
Him: Marianne, She-Hulk.
- Marianne
Something about being in a near-empty library during heavy snow always starts me down a road of post-apocalyptic daydreams.
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(Do you know where YOUR door-blocking heavy objects are?)
- Marianne
My walls are made out of fabric. Blocking to door will do little good.
- DJF
Brutalist architecture starts to seem more functional in this train of thought.
- Your Neighbor Steve
*scritch* *scritch* *scritch* *GROOOAAAN (from beyond the grave)*
- Joe The Sausage
Steve, I agree. Though the ENORMOUS glass panels on all sides of the lobby are a bit dubious... *abandons the lobby, knocks out the stairs, breaks the elevators*
- Marianne
Yeah, I think the first floor will be a serious problem.
- Your Neighbor Steve
Every year, sometime in October or November, when it's starting to get cold, I find myself stuffing the pantry and the freezer. It's like an overwhelming primal urge. And I don't come from a putting-things-up and food-preserving family, so I don't know where this comes from. This year I got the urge, again, and now it's so warm and I'm all confused (shirt-sleeves last week! in Chicago!)
- Betsy
Just found out that my most favorite waitress in the entire world (who is also a good friend) was the inspiration for Red Fraggle. Because one of the women who worked on the show used to babysit her and her older sister Mokey. THIS EXPLAINS SO MUCH.
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Dance your cares away!
- Mary Carmen
clap clap
- Lnorigb
As in Fraggle Rock?
- The Ghost of Library Past
http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki... Interesting waitress and good friend.
- The Ghost of Library Past
Indeed! A real firecracker.
- Marianne
Wow, that's cool!
- Laura H.
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