Library Chronicles

... down at the old liberry.

It seems we finally have a Deep Throat. Another missed opportunity for Punditbook , I'm afraid.

Every time I start to wonder if Maddox is losing his edge he manages to allay my fears.

Yo, kids. Although you likely have not noticed, this space has been a bit on the sleepy side recently. For the most part, this is due to t...

The latest bullshit attempt by the Saints media machine to suggest that wildly inconsistent quarterback and sometime literacy advocate Aaron...

State Rep. A. G. Crowe of Slidell has been putting in extra hours lately furiously scanning Amazon.com in an effort to act as part time read...

Science may have found a way to help you become a cheaper drunk. Those who took kudzu pills drank an average of 1.8 beers per session, compa...

Just lost a huge post in which I once again ranted incessantly about the tourist industry. Consider yourselves lucky.

I gave Daisy first crack at this and she hasn't come close yet. First one to get it right wins "a candy".

My whole sidebar is due for a serious spring cleaning. I'm hardly the type to apply myself to such a project, however. Instead I'l...

I hope we're all celebrating National Hurricane Preparedness Week. [Santorum] The evil federal government has taken the occasion to enc...

Slate piece on Mitch Hedberg .

Geeks everywhere are already piling on the praise for the dumbed down political allegory present in the concluding chapter of the worst movi...

It seems that more and more of the sites I use are making more and more of their content subscription only. The worst offender on this fron...

This is actually a thing. Bushfish

Newitz earns her merit badge.

In the post below, I link to Daisy's reportage of our visits to several area school libraries today. I do not envy the position most of ...

Also, NOPD goes from the penthouse right back to the shithouse. Go see Daisy for details here .

Jesus: "Let's see 'em paint over this!" via Next: Expectant witnesses gather around tortillas in Mexico.

They're leaving.

..at the Tulane Primate Center? The monkeys have escaped and it's not the first time .

The broken guy the Saints drafted is broken again . NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Wide receiver Chase Lyman, the fourth-round draft pick of the New Orl...

Oyster has made it through a whole year. Go give him a pat on the back.

Sorry, Ian OH and Happy Birthday "So here's how I get better reception on my wireless internets." "Still working on that...

Look, if you're going to ask the librarian to help you find information on tie-dye, wear something other than a tie-dye dress. It makes...

Unusual day. It began innocently enough last night when Consuela and Captain Jack Sparrow decided to pick up a few pounds of crawfish. The...

Ever

From today's Times-Pic obits: "Buddy" "Nita" "Jody" "Benny" "Tutt" "Duck" ...

This is just so obviously boneheaded . Santorum, the No. 3 man in Senate leadership, recently filed legislation to clamp down on the Weather...

Since Daisy has thrown down the gauntlet in pursuit of the elusive Quote of the Week, I am forced to reveal my trump card which comes from C...

Daisy has the feel good police story of the century here. I watch people cut this same line every day. Reading this caused me to float ou...

I get to sit a few extra moments in the tech lab while the crazy mumbling guy prints out his muscle-bikini-girl pictures. Ho hum.

The three most recent covers of Time magazine. At least they're consistent.

This NYT piece on the soon to be shuttered Uglesich's is worth a look. Although it loses points for the completely unecessary use of ...

Patron calls and asks for the phone number here, in case she needs to call back. I shit you not.

I don't have one at the ready so I'll defer to Matt Taibbi who was subjected to Tom Friedman's The World is Flat . An excerpt: I...

Right now I am wearing a rubber band and pretzel bracelet. You should all be so lucky.

US exonerates itself in the Sgrena case.

NYT The saga of Company E, part of a lionized battalion nicknamed the Magnificent Bastards, is also one of fortitude and ingenuity. The mar...

Freaking NFL draft nearly ruined my Saturday. I didn't have to work. There were no time consuming errands to run. It was unbelievably go...

Please let the Saints draft this guy. The Saints have shown particular interest in McPherson, one of the most hotly debated prospects in t...

Pope Benedict XVI has responded firmly to the first challenge of his papacy by condemning a Spanish government bill allowing marriage betwee...

We are only now beginning to receive vague hints of the unimaginably torturous summer temperatures to come. Already Consuela is having fits...

Nothing to say other than, what the fuck is wrong with Chicagoans? Addendum: Forgot to add, "Now if you'll excuse me I have to app...

Not only did he incur a bullet wound by chasing an armed robber, but now he lets the guy's accomplice go free because he's too busy ...

Prayer of Jabez by Bruce Wilkinson "Prosperity Theology" ugh Night Ranger's Greatest Hits Yes, we have it. Yes, they wanted i...

I don't know if this is common practice in the newspaper business, but the Times-Pic has the bizzare habbit of printing nicknames in its...

Kind of a weak crop today, even for this meme. I'll just leave it to you. Past Lives, Future Healing by Sylvia Browne Six Steps to Spiri...

While this reviewer doesn't seem to hate Hitchiker's Guide, he doesn't exactly leave you rushing out to see it either.

Cubs 7 Reds 1 Prior(2-0) 7 IP 4 Hits 1 Earned Run 6 Ks Feeling slightly more optimistic.

Your Inner European is Irish! Sprited and boisterous! You drink everyone under the table. Who's Your Inner European?

Those are the first words that come to mind when someone mentions former Saints linebacker Sam Mills who sadly died of cancer this week. He ...

But am I the only one who reads a typical "blogger sucks" post and thinks, It's a free service, people. Shut the fuck up.

This morning the toilet in the staff restroom backed up. As a result I became embroiled in about an hour's worth of largely unsuccessfu...

In addition to taking a backwards step by naming a theological conservative to the papacy, the church also will have to answer questions reg...

It would appear that the Vatican has decided that the reactionary times demand a reactionary pope. As dean of the College of Cardinals, Rat...

Extra base hits by Nomar so far this season: 1 Also Cubs win! Um.. don't expect that to be a regular thing this year.

Check out Matt Taibbi's review of his own book. Back soon.

Nothing sums it up better than this.

New feature: Which is the official Awful Book of the Morning? Today's contenders: A Teen's Game Plan for Life by Lou Holtz The Prodi...

1) Hugh Grant 2) Jon Bon Jovi People Daisy's friends tell her I look like: 1) Rob Reiner 2) Kevin Smith You figure it out.

Consuela and I got all did up and went out intending to hit our first 80s night in ages last night and ended up just sitting in Johnny Whit...

While there are strong arguments to be made for the State putting its resources behind efforts to save New Orleans’s atrocious public school...

Ok I can't be the only one who has at least in part been secretly pining for this moment just for the opportunity to watch the whole co...

I can't tell you a whole lot about Spickle or Sam Sarah, but I can speak with some authority when I say that you will only bring shame u...

1 gallon regular at Lee Circle Exxon: $2.09 1 pound of boiled crawfish at Big Fisherman Seafood on Magazine St: $1.99

Now that the hectic month of March is finally lambing its way on out, I may find the time to begin updating more frequently. D and I turned...

I just added up my ATM receipts for the month of March and got $939.20. This includes $240.00 since Monday. Where is this money going? I ...

..Since she's always asking me about this. Ok, so she's usually just asking me to say something in my lame-ass attempt at a cajun a...

It is late March and the Walgreens accross the street is still selling Pepsi Holiday Spice which has us thinking about this guy for the fir...

..yet another pointless quiz. Of course, the problem with these is always the spoilage that results from considering the possible implicati...

It has been a busy month for me and the blog has paid the price. I told you it was gonna be like this. Not that it matters, when you can ju...

It isn’t online yet, but this week’s Gambit is ringing in Sunshine Week by detailing some of the difficulties its staff has had getting Orl...

Rudolph

Shortly after we opened and just as I was settling in for my first hour on the circ desk, we were disturbed by the excited rumble of a patro...

You can either sift through the usual glut of YA book reviews as well as the unseemly canine anal leakage story or you can just scroll to th...

Gotta jump on the pointless name your favorite philosophers bandwagon. Gotta keep up with the cool kids . Without further adoo: 1) All the...

It helps to have someone with you who speaks the language. For example, first reference question this morning: Gobbliny looking old dude : ...

Be sure to pick up a copy of the March Offbeat and Antigravity # 10. Each contains rather embarrassingly ebullient praise of local rock s...

A guy actually just called from the parking lot to let me know that a suspicious foriegn looking man in sandals had just entered the buildin...

And this is the guy who was just barely probably re elected.

A glaring omission in the newly released Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005 leaves no mention of magic berry juice . What a pity.. I me...

Skooks! 

Man things go from nothing to hyper-busy real quick like around here. Black History Month may be technically over, but that just means it...

Meant to post this yesterday; got caught up . One of our less than pleasant regulars was just here. He's this retired guy who lives in ...

Right now there is a transient (non parish resident) patron in the tech lab happily typing away on his blogger account. Most of our patrons...

Well no not really. But he is writing a book . Perhaps the working title is Best Book in the Universe? Our muscles are spazzed with anti...

That this page looks a little funny in Firefox. I'm going to have to fix that. Any ideas, coding geeks?

I think we've covered this ground before but Jesus Christ!

After a few rounds of ugly innuendo , former president Jimmy Carter has received this unequivocal statement of approval from a Republican wi...

Go see Testaverde at the Circle Bar tonight at 10. You have been officially notified. Update: Actually, Y'all could have made it. The...

A mother-to-be from New Zealand has run an online auction selling advertising space on her pregnant tummy. BBC

It's not exactly the dawn of a new progressive era, but it's a start. Dean will immediately help the Democrats begin to do two thi...

I must say that I have impeccable timing. I managed to put off succumbing to the bug that’s been going around until after Mardi Gras was ov...

I did it. I wasn’t too enthusiastic about the whole endeavor, but I managed to get dragged into it anyway. I actually stood outside all ni...

Well, we're real busy and stuff in New Orleans this weekend. I don't know how much of the game I'll even see since it goes right...

Always excited to see Hermes. The God of Commerce's Friday night march rings in the big Carnival weekend. Strange how there's a god...

Because there aren't so many tourists in town singing karaoke with their frat buddies and peeing on people's houses and stuff. Now...

1) You had to put up with this condescending disingenuous lying speech. 2) I was at Carnival. Quick parade roundup: Saturn's th...

Click here (via Bob Harris ) You know, cute but a bit tired. A better idea would be to ignore the speech altogether and drink while watch...