June 2003 30 June 2003 Isn't it about time for "blogroll" to be shortened to just "groll"?  Okay, we'll do it! One of the kids in the Baby Blues comic strip is participating in a summer reading program. Sort of. Biblia wrote, but apparently did not record, a library rap. Oh, and here's a page where you can get a .wav of the Library Rap from Sliders. A few quotes added to Lib.Sigs.: "Men have died trying to obtain this valuable information, you know. But I'll give it to you for free." (Fast Times at Ridgemont High) "There you sit, sitting spare like a book on a shelf, rusting." Led Zeppelin ("Misty Mountain Hop") "Be careful of reading health books. You may die of a misprint." Mark Twain (Submitted by Syntha Green) 20 June 2003 Maybe the real reason for invading Iraq was to stop the distribution of Saddam's new novel, Get Out of Here, Curse You! A newish blog that's full of fun: Amazon World, "highlighting some of the more interesting user reviews found on Amazon.com." Al Franken talks about stuff like his BookExpo fight with Bill O'Reilly in this interview. Our favorite line: "To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus." The Daily Show's Mo Rocca is gonna host a TV version of The Smoking Gun! 7 June 2003 Harry Potterminator -- One of Joel Kahn's Frankentoons. Library Girl -- Flash animation that we weren't patient enough to watch. Make the signs you'd really like to see in the library (like this one ... or this one) with St. Claire's Safety Sign Builder!  You can make signs you'd actually use, too. We're not the only ones recording libraristic songs ... Rob Lopresti sings the blues about being a Reference Librarian. 5 June 2003 When we read this quote from President Bush today ... “But one thing is certain: no terrorist network will gain weapons of mass destruction from the Iraqi regime because the Iraqi regime is no more.” ...we were reminded of this ancient joke ... - Hoca! What are you doing? Why are you sprinkling that powder around? - I want to keep the tigers away, Hoca answered. - But there are no tigers within thousands of miles, the man said. Hoca looked rather pleased with himself and said with a big smile: - Well, you see it works then, doesn´t it? You Can Be Anything You Want, Says Fictional Character -- A no-spin news item from The Onion. Ya just gotta love a comics-page pun involving a large animal in the library! "Did you ever notice that the books in the airport reading rack -- the books that everyone actually reads -- are never the books that are reviewed in the big Sunday book sections?" A librarian we work with alerted us to this fun column from last year. Added to Lib.Sigs.: "I'm not reading this. This is bullshit." Colin Powell (As reported in U.S. News & World Report, 9 June 2003)

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