First, happy birthday to the lovely albumsontheside ! Congrats, dear, you get a birthday art -- want me to draw you something? Your wish is my command. :D ( Read more... )

Dear Public Library,

You fail at life. Seriously. How can you justify having absolutely none of the items on my 30-book-strong reading list when a fair amount of them are popular or even classic? What, no On The Road, no Brothers Karamazov, no Valis, and -- God help us -- no Carrie or The Stand, even? And it's not that all of these are mysteriously ( Read more... )

I've always liked libraries. I haven't got a job (and not for lack of trying -- the local college kids have swamped every available position, more people are looking for work, etc, etc.), so I figured that since I've got some down time I may as well do some volunteer work. I am a literary geek, and I saw an ad for volunteer positions at the local ( Read more... )