Library Chronicles

1) What can only be described as a cheerful chain gang of overenthusiastic but underqualified gardeners is currently at work in the library...

And, you know, there's so much to pick from in this little episode that it's really hard to find the choice cut. I mean there's...

Actually this sounds really good. The Red Sox owners aren't interested in bulldozing one of baseball's landmarks. Principal owner ...

This seems to contradict his earlier statement that the decision to escort members of the bin Laden family out of the country during the day...

Here is a story about a researcher who offered his name as a co-author to the highest e-bay bidder willing to collaborate with him on a pap...

Y'all this is soooo cute. The folks at ChristianExodus.org are mad as hell (mostly about gay marriage) and they aren't gonna take ...

Google searcher landed here looking for "pictures of exploding things." I'm all about me some pyrotechnics.

Baby born from 21-year-old sperm

Alas, this bill looks dead in the water. Futrell's bill would do away with the annual inspection every Louisiana vehicle owner is requir...

Apparently they are both retards.

The trees are all gonna die!!

What would you read? Frivolous line of questioning you say? I think not. You see this summer we are all Buggy About Books. As a result, I...

We're all gonna die!!

Reuters: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush asked fellow Republicans on Capitol Hill on Thursday to "keep the faith" as he soug...

They are retards who Still download reams of spyware As though they don't care

Here is Ricky promising not to spend much time on and then getting off on an out and out rant about the fact that the enlightened represent...

Cox really needs to accidentally turn my free cable back on. Without TV my personal news cycle is completely out of synch with the rest of ...

Testaverde opens for Trans Am Wednessday night at Howlin' Wolf.

And you know, some people out there actually kind of hate me. But I still do nice things occasionally.

Image from CNN Also see Krugman: A Crude Shock

There I've done it. I've actually used the word blogosphere in a sentence. Are you happy, world? I officially suck. First the g...

And now I'm very lonely. I had to get up at 6:00 AM to put Consuela on a plane. She is off on a romantic getaway and won't be back...

Ok so everyone knows this by now. But not everyone has seen the funniest blog post of the day. Or the most colorful. Link updated. Ca...

Might be worth seeing. link

I've just learned that it is acceptable to refer to your ex-wife's new husband as your "husband in-law"

Daisy has just reminded me of another high moment from last night. She, committed vegetarian that she is, actually ended up grilling twelve...

Best party ever last night. The whole world gathered to celebrate the graduations of Jersey Girl and Nurse Mama (who is actually a nurse now...

Category: Nouns The caller established the category after confirming that he had indeed called the library. Every other phone call begins ...

I want to print it out and have it framed. Blender's 50 worst songs ever. (Complete list this time.)

Sy Hersh's latest New Yorker piece about Abu Ghraib. We learn from Hersh that responsibility for the prisoner abuses goes straight to th...

Red Sox 4 Blue Jays 0 Arroyo and Foulke combine on a four hit shut out. Sox move back into first place .

Cubs 7 Padres 5 Sammy Sosa passes Mike Schmidt and moves into ninth place in career home runs with 549.

Goes to the Washington Post for this interactive graphic which allows you to explore the Bush Campaign's vast funding sources. Reminds ...

So the T-Verde rocked predictably ( see lightweight Daisy's account. ) Ballzack explained: Some guys get high one day and decide they a...

Unlikely Harry Potter Sequels via laughing librarian

Oyster posted this a couple of days ago. I'm only now finding out what it is. www.nice-tits.org/pics.html

Today the world is one step closer to producing an actual James Bond movie style super-villain. First Privately-Built Rocket Reaches Space ,...

Testaverde opens for Ballzack at Tipitina's uptown. Webcast available here!

Way to ruin my Friday you numbnuts.

The many folks who daily participate in the generation of the library's office e-mail. Just take my word for it.

To the May 2004 graduates of Delgado Community College's Charity School of Nursing including, of course, my favorite arch enemy.

1) All of it.

Break things. Often. And they want me to fix them. What kind of game are they running?

Life is a bowl of cherries

If I were designing a spell check function for a blogging application, I would allow the word "blogging." But, you know, that'...

Already digging the music references on this one. Your Right Hand Thief Pointed out by Ricky who apparently knows everything that ever h...

Political Wire points to this nugget in the WaPost "Administration sources say Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is still consider...

This is worth a look. The Guardian asks Jonathan Schell: President Bush said recently of the Iraqis, "It's going to take a while fo...

Is still a fucking genius. go read

Here is Kos handicapping this morning based on this Bloomberg story. So the word is that Kerry's veep choice has to be a sort of Chene...

"That car had a radio that tells you the name of the song playing and the name of the person singing it. It's like it was reading m...

They've been called prog-punk-surf. They're a happy thrash band.. sort of. Someday they'll be really big in Japan. They're ...

library patrons in the last hour who have asked me to lend them money. What is going on here? If they only knew who they were asking.

Now that the Cheerleader in Chief has reassured us the Rummy is doing a "super job" and with Sy Hersh and Lynndie England's l...

Is I believe the term which applies to a power structure in which a military force is directly responsible to a private interest rather than...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush has told Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld he was "not happy" that he learned about photos o...

Man I go away for five days and you change the whole freaking world on me. Ok give me a half a day and I'll catch up.

NYT has this account from an Abu Ghraib prisoner.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Bush administration will request an additional $25 billion to cover military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, adm...

To the five Republican senators who broke ranks and helped block the new overtime rules. Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Colo.) Lincoln D. Chafee ...

Are you between the ages of 18 and 34? Have a sense of adventure? Like long walks in the desert? Posses any special skills of note? You may...

Cubs 7 Cardinals 3 We fell out of first but are still hanging in there. Tonight, hopefully, Schilling will get the Sox back on track in ...

Talk Left has the book.

Along with equally stupid campaign story of the day. Kerry falls off bicycle.

Like sign up for Gmail. Always striving to be less unreachable.

CNN has devised a new and ingenious way to acquire my email address for spamming purposes. If you are also interested in submitting all of ...

George Carlin on ESPN 5. Clearly, you're not crazy about our president. What would you like to do to fix it? Or him? Bush needs to b...

I mean didn't we send like the whole armed forces into Iraq last year so that I wouldn't have to scrape all the change off the floor...

When is this day gonna be over?

Transcript available after all. Click here.

to deal with this effectively this morning. But you see, today is May Day. May Day is Labor Day throughout most of the world largely in me...

And the fact that we all live in them these days. First, Daisy gets all up close and personal with her neighbors. And then there's thi...

Marginal Lineup Value via this Slate piece on why pitchers can't hit.

"In 1988, I got a job writing for Popeye and Pals," Melancon says. "It was a local television show for children that ran for ...

Thinks Bush is Prince Hal. What with all his upholding the unyoked humor of idleness while Kerry was in Vietnam getting his ass shot off. ...

NEW YORK -- An anti-war group planning a massive demonstration at the start of the Republican National Convention in Manhattan has been deni...

Now that the field has been entered for the Kentucky Derby , it looks like everyone is in a handicapping mood. Here is your racing form for...

Well, actually, it's more like 9-11 commission appears before Bush . Oh and Cheney. Oh and it's all in private. Oh and it won't ...

Jeffrey's favorite: Anything to do with food Jeffrey's least favorite: Anything to do with grant writing

400 Language 410 Linguistics 420 English and Old English 430 German and related languages 440 French and related languages 450 Italian...

....that our little team is still in the playoffs? New Orleans is proving to be not such a great basketball town. As most Louisianians kn...

This morning my boss and his supervisor took a few minutes to heap an inordinate amount of praise on me for programming a button on the cash...

Life's little accidents.. I just stumbled upon this. This one's for the Old 97's fans out there in the audience. Designs on...

It all makes sense to me now. It's 2004. I'm turning 30 in three months. This morning I had some freaky half midlife crisis kind ...

I just noticed that this morning I typed the word it's where I meant its. Now I do want to jump off of a bridge.

40 ish year old man: I remember out in California they had the place where you go to get your driver license. They called the DMV. They go...

Cubs 4 Mets 1 Six in a row! And I was all depressed this morning. It's also a very good sign to see Clement at 3-1.

Comes to us via the incomparable Naked Furniture. I give you John Kerry Is A Douchebag But I'm Voting For Him Anyway. Outstanding, du...

Irene: "Mary Mcgary Morris writes the saddest books. Last night I just wanted to call her up and ask, Couldn't you have nothing go...

Regular readers of this space will note its decidedly.. um.. light tone. Usually a week here consists of one or two incoherent rants about ...

I snapped awake at 6:30 am and just couldn't get back in the bed so I came to work an hour early. Weird. Also there are only three book...

This site has been practically dormant all weekend. Well I've been busy.. that is to say hung over mostly. Tomorrow I'll be back a...

Some predictons regarding tomorrow's NFL draft: 1) The Chargers will select Eli Manning with the first pick. I don't know whay ever...

Can we nominate Get Your War On for a funniest-thing-ever-written award of some sort? If only for this sentence, "It felt like rubbern...

I've taken Ricky's advice and added Nosey online , Whopundit , and Letters to W. to the 'ol blogroll. All worth a look. Too b...

Finally finished my term paper (yawn.) Sense of accomplishment will be overidden by certain chastisement from instructor (who likes to use ...

You still owe me money. You might remember the official documents I mailed to your office last month regarding this matter. I look forward...

Aaron , ball's in your court. story

It says things like "What type of internet y'all have up in here?"