I just had it brought to my attention that Bloglines isn't reading my feed (and hasn't since July 18 – wow, my birthday post helped knock out part of the Internet!). If you subscribe to this blog via Bloglines, hopefully you've realised this and are checking in directly or reading this via another RSS reader […]
We did a day trip across the border to Williston, North Dakota on Wednesday (it's a long story as to why we had to go mid-week, I'll tell you over a beer sometime) and the highlight for me was finding an old department store that had been converted into a place that sold all kinds […]
“Bailing Again” – Fred Eaglesmith I'm standin' on the corner of a pair of country roadsI am carvin' out my daddy's name on a little stoneAnd though I couldn't always talk to him, but if was here todayI think I'd know exactly what to sayCHORUS:I'd say the weather's been hotThe hay is almost inAnd if […]
(Thanks to Grandma Joanie for suggesting the song!)
Notessimo is a quick and easy music creator that's kind of fun if you want to just fool around but you're not musically trained (or even if you are?) Of course, there are more advanced programs out there as well – David, you out there? What do you use? (via MetaFilter)
How To Make a Secret Hollow Book(via MetaFilter)One other library/book/publishing anecdote for the day…I was working on our patron requests this afternoon and someone had requested a book with a French title and which Bowker Global Books in Print showed as being only available in French. But everything else I saw about the book indicated […]
Similar to my FFL last week, Michelle L. links to another article slamming the impact of the Potter books. If you're going to buy her book, don't buy it for half price at a supermarket. As an example of a world gone mad, you couldn't do much better than this: a writer whose sales have […]
Received this link from Chris G. with a request for any thoughts I might have on what makes a bestselling book. Coincidentally, this weekend I also happened to read a column by Stephen King in an issue of Entertainment Weekly exploring the same issue. And it also makes a nice follow-up to my last FFL […]
I just came across this image of one of the world's most popular (and longest) books where the main character's fate is being hotly debated today. Does he die? Or does he live? Don't say I didn't warn you!
This song's been going through my head a lot since Pace was born: And I'm broke, like a bad joke Somebody's uncle told at a wedding reception in 1972 Where a little boy under a table with cake in his hair Stared at the grown-up feet as they danced and swayed And his father laughed […]
