Library Chronicles

And today is my favorite-est day of the year. Fat guys with luggage day. As yet, the local media has no photos of the festivities. Stay ...

The Suicide's Soliloquy Yes! I’ve resolved the deed to do, And this the place to do it: This heart I’ll rush a dagger throug...

A fun and gentle site.

The process by which our national political parties nominate candidates for President is nearly as laughable as it is shameful. The primary...

And I still don't have a problem with it. And neither do people who express themselves better than I do.

This seems to be the sentiment of this surprisingly eloquent letter in the Picayune this morning.

Bush leads by a tally of two falls to one .

The meat of Gore Vidal's latest pamphlet comes in the form of reprinted essays dating from 1972 to the present with a few new editorial...

For putting two and two together regarding the latest proposal for placating Tom Benson's desire for new digs. The Governor's plan ...

So Ricky Williams retired. Good move. You're young strong and rich. Why would you want to continue to live the life of an NFL player ...

Do not try to adjust your set. I'm moving a few things around, mostly updating the old blogroll by adding some things that I regularly ...

In Sweden, where it can sometimes take over three months to change apartments , it now turns out that folks can't even get liquored up p...

Tropical system has good chance to become first depression

Courtesy of John Scalzi.

Microsoft to Pay Stockholders Special One-Time Dividend

Like, out in public and stuff. No really, like, even in front of huge crowds of children. I'm sure the authorities at this event woul...

Way to keep their heads spinning. Poor George Orwell. If he were alive today, he'd be the most sought after talking head on the globe...

Maureen Dowd start writing Krugman's column for him?

The audience is practically in rapture! Ha ha! See? I can do it too. And that one the about meek inheriting the earth and all. That was a...

NEW YORK - An investigator for an animal rights group captured video showing chickens being kicked, stomped and thrown against a wall by wor...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -- A 36-year-old man led police on a brief car chase, driving on sidewalks, through parking lots and even against traffi...

Irene: "So when you send somebody an e-mail, is it like instant?"

Well I'm back in the library after perhaps the most trying week long vacation in human history.  In the interest of reestablishing norma...

That's right. The world works in strange ways. 1974: I am born and one month later Nixon resigns. Certainly this is no mere coinciden...

Courtesy of Pablo Neruda on this his 100th.

Rare is it that today's pampered athletes show some actual guts. You'd think all that money would make them less afraid to have unp...

Ok I admit it. I enjoy following the horse race aspect of political campaigns. While it may be true that the practice of reporting politic...

Summer is mean season in New Orleans Arguments, accidents increase, police say link

In light of this truly shocking revelation TV 'linked to short-sightedness' we really have to wonder about the wisdom of this A US ...

Is there somewhere in the world where one can place a wager on who will be the last Beatle to die? Must be so.. but I can't find it.......

Should this have been a Python sketch or a Kafka novel? You figure it out.

Bound to come along sooner or later. B5 d- t- k++ s+ u- f i o x-- e l- c Here you can, of course, participate in this too, you big ge...

Happy birthday, Ringo.

Bioarchaeology Now, thanks to genetic research, here's a restaurant where all descendants of Genghis Kahn can eat for free. God kno...

Until my 20's are over! My God what have I done? Anywhoo in case you are interested, I would be very happy with either the Red Megama...

So I'm back from yet another major danger adventure. Destin, FL on Fourth of July weekend is not exactly the relaxing vacation getaway ...

Weird dark humor here. It kind of reads like an Onion story. Jeb Bush not anxious to read Clinton book

There has been much tut-tutting by pundits who complain that the movie, though it has yet to be caught in any major factual errors, uses ass...

Unfortunately he made the wrong choice.

Let's get this overwith so that I can once again be wrong wrong wrong . PITTSBURGH -- John F. Kerry spent yesterday in isolation at h...

Chronotherapeutics

Saddam's statement to the judge, "Hey relax, fella. Look over there!"

Really, no I insist. It's good for you.

Cultural events this past weekend. Saturday, I managed to drag Daisy to the Shakespeare Festival at Tulane's production of Richard III...

You bunch of freaking weirdos. Book Six title available.

This was two blocks away from me. It really is suspicious considering that the same thing happened to the same house just a few months ago....

This is Broken

John Kerry: "I don't cross picket lines," Kerry said last night, shortly after attending Mass at St. Vincent's Waterfront...

And you know what? Good. So maybe this time around when the thieving bastards steal another election and continue unabated to march us towa...

I need suggestions. Daisy and I are trying to create a display of space books in anticipation of an upcoming NASA @ Your Library exhibit an...

My poor Tercel has been through an awful lot this week. First, the battery died leaving me to bum rides from Daisy until I could a waste an...

Yeah I know but in case you missed it this deserves another look.. or two or whatever.

At your local BK are not all that bad really. You may have to get used to them, yo.

SACRAMENTO (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has outraged animal lovers by proposing to make it easier for shelters to kill stray dogs and c...

Last night we were visited by Aaron Brooks so that he could "demonstrate what being a true champion reader is all about." Apparen...

And I'm hungry and Daisy took my baseball away and now I have to sit here for another hour and this is not a good day at all.

Believe it or not they acutally allow her to read to children.

I will have you know that today's arts and crafts program as well as yesterday's storytime event have once again demonstrated beyond...

How did I miss this one? First ketchup and now the fries too. Think of fresh vegetables and you think of fields of crops, or perhaps rows ...

This will increase the general degree of difficulty. Does anyone have a bus schedule handy?

Are a scary lot indeed . But I could have told you that already.

So thanks to stupid Ricky putting the ol' gris gris on us, the Tigers will now have to play from the losers bracket in the CWS. That ...

Nature is angry and is constantly trying to reclaim this ground from civilization. Caption reads: "Summer heat causes Pontchartrain Bou...

It was 1984. I was entering those precious middle school years when we all start to grow into the asinine smart ass adolescents who in turn...

So says an anonymous US intelligence official and author of Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terrorism . Today's Gua...

Are really bugging me today.

A gracious George W Bush on torture: "Look, I'm going to say it one more time. The instructions went out to our people to adhere to...

There should be two water parks in New Orleans . Have you been outside lately? And it's only gonna get hotter.

...of disgruntled library patrons desperately clamoring for a copy of My Life. One of the world's truly talented actors will be all ove...

Political Wire has Bill Richardson telling the AP that he is "not interested" in the VP slot. That clinches it. I stand by my or...

Cubs Win!! Five in a row. Don't think we haven't noticed. A four game sweep of Houston would be super-sweet.

Oh and news flash. Maddox is pretty funny.

Item: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - A man accused of tossing a rattlesnake into a bar has been charged with felony assault with a deadly weapon. Rodg...

Whenever I read a memoir, especially one which contains a lot of diologue and dramatic action, I tend to get distracted figuring out how muc...

"Do you have any books about autobiography people?"

The commission investigating the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US has found no "credible evidence" that Iraq helped al-Qaeda ca...

I feel no explanation is necessary.

Get it? Ha! You see because the grease makes the car go and, you know, IT'S FUNNY!

From Political Wire : Bill Clinton "plans to lend a political hand to the Kerry campaign while on a cross-country tour to promote hi...

Step by step: 1) Job in library produces steadily increasing annoyance with vacuous celebrities who write stupid children's books. ...

The local theme park has initiated a program of hiring Russian teenagers as temporary summer employees. I wonder how this factors into the ...

E-mail comes in this morning from Herr Director to all staff containig the following text: ***ATTENTION! All Staff: Please get into the ha...

National titles that is. Tigers heading to their 13th CWS. This was really an exciting game.

Of course this would come up AFTER the week in which I had to drive to Mandeville and back twice. Causeway officials admit that lack of enf...

It would seem that some nutjobs may soon be treating your local cineplex the way they usually would treat a Planned Parenthood office. A web...

But I didn't think he'd actually ask. And certainly he did ask despite the spin reflected in this story. On the other hand, this...

Welcome to Hurricane Season. An upper level system in the Yucatan Peninsula bears watching this weekend, according to WWL-TV Chief Meteorol...

Opened for the Unicorns in front of a nice sized crowd at One Eyed Jacks (formerly the Shim Sham)last night. This was the first time I had ...

Man outruns horse.

Democracy Now transcriprt via Alternet. Gore Vidal on Bush, the war, Diebold, empire. Go read now now now.

A few minutes ago, a kid shows me her summer reading assignment. One of her books is Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims and she's having ...

You'd like to know too wouldn't you. Well hang on to your lederhosen, kids, because here comes Lib Chron From Around the World. Da...

Really why did I go to all the trouble to say it when I could have just linked to Nathan Newman. Kerry and the "responsible" Dems ...

.... than linking to a Dilbert comic? Well, nothing. I just thought Daisy should see this one .

Or as Huck Finn might say, alright then I'll go to hell. We've had to wait a couple of days for people to start saying it but final...

Well really just Dad and r, but who needs to sign up for this kind of bullshit ? Your cell-phone company knows you hate it. Mobile-phone ser...

The jig is up, Houdini! The really satisfying thing about this is that the magicians are pissed off. I really hate magicians.

Atrios and Kevin Drum are waxing economic today about the market for oil. The short version: Given that the market is currently at or nea...

I was going to drone on and on about how I've accomplished next to nothing since last Tuesday on account of the fact that I am deeply en...

Most of you probably read Tom Tomorrow so I assume you've seen this post about Enron traders on tape pretty much spelling out the con...