Our improv troupe's first performance is Friday.

Our goal had been to play a teensy event and just try it out and fail, but the show just got moved to cavernous St. Andrew's Hall?!? We are only one act of many, but still, holy smokes that's a real venue!

(breathes into a bag)

I'm excited.

I stumbled across this poem on tumblr, and oh my god, this is me. This is me looking at some guy who sets my radar off, hoping my eyes don't look glassy, going "Uh huh, yes ( Read more... )

"Here the commotion grows silent, and the earth simply breathes the soft, humid air through a thousand warm, invisible lips." --Stephen Zweig on the botanical garden in Rio

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I live tweeted Paul McKee's big North Side TIF hearing tonight, once I was finally able to get into the room hours after it began (This was only one of many ways in which it was not a proper, legal public hearing. Hundreds were shut out.).

Here is a link to my twitter, so you can read what happened: grenadine(Not sure how to make a link to just ( Read more... )

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Hey all,

This Thursday is the first birthday of Dewey Decimal Drinks, the monthly happy hour for St. Louis area librarians, library workers, and library groupies. Yep, it has already been a year!


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Darren Snow kindly made an awesome flyer for Drinks & Mortar this month! Here it be:


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