December 2003Hear "Christmas Time at the Library" in BibDitties!19 December 2003
A perennial favorite of ours: The
true story of the Whos and the "Welcome Christmas" song.
We don't recall running across the Real
Librarians! page before, with its great mod of a Luis Royo "Hawkfinder"
painting. (Here's
the original.)
"I saw a woman lick sauce off her husband's
elbow." A few
of the comments they didn't print in the Zagat's Guides.
We finally got around to starting Jasper Fforde's second
Thursday Next book, so we revisited the author's website.
Almost as much fun as the books are. Some great
pics for your desktop, a
screening exam for SpecOps Literary Detective wannabes, vote
for the most boring classic, etc. BTW, if you haven't read The
Eyre Affair yet, start reading it now.
Amazon.com
encourages pervs to "search inside" teenagers' skirts.
(Noticed by another
pointless dotcom.)
Some bits from Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose
added to Lib.Sigs.:
"'Are there not moments,' he asked William, 'when
you would also do shameful things to get your hands on a book you have
been seeking for years?'" (p. 138)
"A perverse mind presides over the holy defense of
the library." (p. 176)
"I accept the risk of damnation. The Lord will
absolve me, because He knows I acted for His glory. My duty was to
protect the library." (p. 471)
Does anyone know whether this line from the
movie appears in the book in any form? (We didn't find it.): "I
assumed he could not resist the temptation to penetrate the library and
look at the books." 2 December 2003
We're severely
disappointed that this
article doesn't say that the kids in an American lit class happened
to be reading Poe's "The
Conqueror Worm" when maggots started sprinkling down from the
ceiling. It doesn't say they weren't reading the poem, either. So
let's just pretend they were. 'Cause it's funnier that way.
We're
contemplating a defamation lawsuit against Karen
Schneider for calling our blog "narrative."
Why
offer $200 on Google Answers, when you can ask your local librarian
"why
did the government paint their cameras on my window" for free?
1 December 2003
It's December, so we've added a seasonal new BibDitties
recording by the anAACRonisms: Christmas
Time at the Library. We hope this becomes as much a beloved holiday
classic as the Mr. Hankey song.
Barbie
Loves SpongeBob SquarePants. We wonder how Ken took the news. We're
trying not to wonder about other implications of this inter-phylal
romance. (Insert Seinfeld-inspired "spongeworthy" joke
here.)
We saw Bad Santa the other evening; it's funny
enough for us to recommend. Some lines even brought tears to our eyes,
we were laughing so hard. The complaints
about the movie seem a bit ironic, given that many "family"
holiday films are feature-length ads for licensed products, and Bad
Santa gives the commercialization of Christmas a nice spanking.
(Maybe that's the part that shocked Eisner.) This isn't a flick for
kids, but we think it's far less offensive than what Disney did to Hans
Christian Andersen.
A columnist in New Zealand mentions us in a
boring and derivative piece about the "secret life" of
librarians. VALIS
discusses the column, and claims that The Laughing Librarian
contains "at least some 'serious' information." We're
contemplating a defamation lawsuit against VALIS for slapping that
"serious" label on us.
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