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Neil Gaiman’s Love Letter to Libraries

The Guardian recently published an edited version of Neil Gaiman‘s lecture for the Reading Agency.  The Reading Agency’s annual lecture series was initiated in 2012 as a platform for leading writers and thinkers to share original, challenging ideas about reading and libraries. The lecture is amazingly good. On the purposes of reading (and specifically reading fiction)… Fiction […]

Posted 20 October 2013 § Canada § Censorship § Internet § Library § UK § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Muffled Voices: Five Famous Authors of Banned Books

  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, […]

Posted 24 September 2013 § Censorship § Library § PopCulture § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

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…

Posted 11 September 2013 § MemoryLane § Politics § PopCulture § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

A Couple Reasons I Really Like Doug Stanhope

Doug Stanhope is a fucking awesome comedian who is cool with people torrenting his stuff…   And “his stuff” includes brilliant material like this… And this… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcO24WljvPM

Posted 05 September 2013 § Censorship § Humour § Meme § Politics § Technology § United States § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – 18 National Flags Made From Each Country’s Most Representative Foods

Boo – no Canada in this list of national flags made from 18 countries’ most representative foods  – how easy would it be to make the red stripes of our flag out of back bacon and the maple leaf out of…maple syrup of course! Geez, one of the first results when you Google “Canadian flag bacon” […]

Posted 30 August 2013 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Humour § Travel § UK § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

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 […]

Posted 26 August 2013 § Censorship § Humour § Meme § MusicMonday § PopCulture § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “And that Holy Water, that you soak in is then poisoned/When everyone else Is more comfortable remaining voiceless/Rather than fighting for humans/That have had their rights stolen”

Hip hop isn’t always known for its sensitivity around issues of misogyny and homophobia  so this song, written in support of efforts to legalize same sex marriage in Washington State, is a welcome change… “Same Love” – Macklemore and Ryan Lewis

Posted 10 June 2013 § MusicMonday § PopCulture § United States § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Five Things That Reminded Me of Hawaii During My Walk Around Wascana Lake at Noon Today

Going to Hawaii a year and a half ago was one of the best trips of my life and I’m constantly thinking about when we’ll be able to get back (short answer: probably not for a long time!) But if I can’t get there in person, I can pretend I’m there, even when I’m still […]

Posted 07 June 2013 § List § MemoryLane § Travel § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Eight Arrested After Brawl at Kindergarten Graduation

I hope this doesn’t happen at Pace’s kindergarten graduation in a couple weeks! 😉 This is my favourite quote from an article that’s full of all kinds of crazy details (“shots were not fired but someone did pick up a hammer”.) Cleveland Police Commander Wayne Drummond said investigators were trying to confirm reports that a […]

Posted 04 June 2013 § Humour § Pace § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

The Business Case for Happiness in the Workplace

I’ve long been a believer that a happy workplace is a productive, engaged workplace. Now, it looks like Canadian business schools are starting to agree. From the Globe & Mail (with my own bolding of parts I found particularly relevant)… The business case for happiness in the workplace DELLA BRADSHAW Published Wednesday, May. 22, 2013 07:00PM […]

Posted 23 May 2013 § Jobs § Library § LibrarySchool § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,