This week is Banned Books Week in the US (as opposed to last week of February in Canada for some reason.) Oh well – I’ll happily celebrate any week that celebrates banned books and pass along great articles profiling authors who’ve been banned. In 2008, when Phillip Pullman learned his novel, The Golden Compass, […]
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Oh My God! Holy Shit!! Jesus Christ!!! (aka My Reaction To Tonight’s Episode of “Breaking Bad”)
Someone on Reddit posted their girlfriend’s reaction at various points during tonight’s episode of “Breaking Bad” and I’d concur… Fans are already calling it “the greatest episode of television in history” and I’d say if not, it’s pretty damn close! Like the majority of the show’s millions of fans, Shea and I came late to […]
Friday Funk Link – Amazing Book Shelves #book #library #cool #reddit
Just discovered that Reddit has a sub-Reddit dedicated solely to photos of amazing and cool bookshelves. If you sort it by “Top” vote getting submissions, you might never go to another sub-Reddit again! 😉 Probably a good lesson for libraries in here somewhere too…
September 11, 2001 as it happened on CNN – 8:40am to 10:11am
I’m pretty sure I have most of this on a VHS tape somewhere but nice to have it online for easy access and archival purposes…
Too Many Tabs Tuesday – E-Books Edition
Bev Slopen is a Canadian Literary Agent who is experimenting with e-books to “learn what authors and publishers already know about the area”. Oyster, a “NetFlix for books” has launched. The obvious rejoinder is “A Netflix for books? We call that the library.” But the reality is that libraries operate on a loaning model and […]
Music Monday – “It’s our party we can do what we want/It’s our party we can say what we want.”
So everybody’s talking about the raunchy Miley Cyrus performance last night at the MTV Video Music Awards (including perhaps the weirdest MetaFilter thread ever where a discussion of whether the Miley Cyrus performance is pushing the “real” news about Syria off of front pages leads to a long parallel thread that jumps back and forth with people alternating […]
“The Book Thief” Movie Trailer
A great book that is “loaded with librarian appeal” is becoming a movie…
Paul McCartney’s Bass Playing
Paul McCartney is well-known as a multi-instrumentalist – proficient on drums, skilled on guitar and keyboard and virtuoso on bass. After yesterday’s post about how I used to read rec.music.beatles, I stumbled across an analysis of his bass playing over the years which is quite good. Here’s the end of the article where a few […]
Alan W. Pollack’s “Notes On” Beatles Series
Way back in the early days of my use of the Internet (around 1996-97), I spent *a lot* of time on Usenet (basically, a precursor of today’s message boards and forums.) I regularly visited a few newsgroups including rec.music.beatles which is where I first came across Alan W. Pollack’s “Notes On” series where he’d do an […]
The Beatles’ Last Photo Shoot
Okay, this has officially turned into a Beatles blog. Honestly, I was trying to find something different to write about. But this was the first story on the front page of MetaFilter when I looked at that site in search of ideas for a post for today and so I thought I’d pass along a […]