Abney Park

I love them. You should love them too. If you don’t love them, little clockwork street urchins with crappy English accents (like Chris Claremont bad, and that’s bad) should have every right to throw things at you and taunt you and generally point out how much you suck, because if you don’t like [...]

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Catching Up

Time to play catch-up.  Haven't posted anything on this blog since before Thanksgiving, but a lot has happened since then.  I won't go into a lot of it, because most of it is really personal, but suffice it to say that I got some really bad news that knocked me for a loop, and I'm [...]

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FreeLit, Comics Edition

Okay, so I pointed out some of my favorite places to get my read on for free.  I failed to point out places where you can read comics for free online.  I’d be here all day if I listed every webcomic I ever heard of, so I’ll just point out some of my favorites.
FreakAngels – [...]

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FreeLit

FreeLit.  See how I did that?  I made one word out of two, Lewis Carroll style, but I put in a random capital letter in the middle because that’s how you make it all edgy and cool.  Marketing, baby.
Yeah, whatever.  The point is, I’m making a new catagory on the blog called, duh, FreeLit.  Any [...]

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Mission: Somewhat Difficult

Okay, okay, so the mission wasn’t exactly "impossible," but it was still kind of a pain.  It seems that I’m down to the last chapter in book 3 of The Dresden Files, Grave Peril.  Since I work late tonight, this was probably the only day of the week where I could stop by the local [...]

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Unshelved

This is why I love Unshelved.  One tiny little four-panel strip pretty much sums up my philosophy on being a librarian:

Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum put together just about the funniest comic you’ll ever read about working in a public library (and maybe the only one.)  It’s funny because so much of it is [...]

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From the Stacks: A Study in Emerald

This story is what happened when Neil Gaiman asked himself "What would happen if I mashed together the world of Holmes and Cthulhu?  Hmmm…"  Besides that, I can’t talk too much about this story without giving too much away.  Sometimes the fun in reading a treat like this is going in blind.  I will say [...]

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