It's not every day you find a story that might appropriately be titled "Zombies vs. Jesus". Now if only they were showing the original Dawn of the Dead in theaters, I might actually go see a movie.
3-17-04: Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Google made me happy this morning with a holiday logo for St. Pat's. Unfortunately, I spent my St. Patrick's Day Eve shoveling six inches of snow off my sidewalk. Hasn't it been six weeks since Groundhog Day yet??
Meanwhile, Science proves beer bubbles sink (BBC News). Now there's a research project I'd like to work on! "Dark beers were reported to produce the best results for researchers"...and I plan to investigate the effects of dark beers on librarians later on today.
Oh, let's see, what else has science proved? Well, there's the savior of rock and roll, as scientifically computed. [via MetaFilter]
Okay, that was depressing. Good time for an arts'n'crafts project! Imagination: free. Creativity: free. ALA make your own READ poster CD: $99. Thanks, but I don't need any "slick, professional-looking in-house promotional materials" right now. But you can win the cost of the CD back in the READ Poster Contest. [via librarian.net]
Kiss me, I'm a librarian. Or better yet, buy me a beer.
Here is the original cover (fifth image down) of the comic book mentioned yesterday. Note the addition of the valise and the lower price. [thanks, William!]
3-15-04: when it all comes together
Monkey + library + comic ... what more could you ask for? I have not read the three books the ape is demanding. That must explain why I have not yet conquered the world. Thank you, Tangognat, for brightening my day.
I came across a call for book chapters on film and comic books on A Library Writer's Blog. It's an interesting topic—I just wish there were more decent movies based on comics. Here's hoping that Hellboy isn't a huge disappointment, since it's become abundantly clear that Catwoman is going to be a bad movie. (The costume design is so horrifying it makes me think Paul Gulacy's Catwoman art isn't so bad after all.)
A little something to satisfy the librarian and the music geek: Cover Songs Database. Just about any way you can think of searching for or compiling statistics for cover songs or song samples, it's here! I still don't have a Friday top-10 list (ahem! you know who you are!) but in lieu of that, please take a look at the Cover Songs Database statistics page - lotsa lists, lotsa fun. I hope this database continues to grow. [via MetaFilter]
P.S. Only 12 days 'til one of the greatest days of the year! And if you think I'm talking about the Ides of March, check your calendar again, please.
As anyone who's been reading this blog knows, I despise PowerPoint (though I have, grudgingly, used it on occasion). How could I not have come across The Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation before? [via Infomuse.net]
The first Czech ex-President will be the subject of the first Czech presidential library (Havel to play library card, The Prague Post, 2/26/04). I mention this because I find Vaclav Havel to be a very interesting person--a playwright and dissident who became the Czech Republic's first elected president. He also supported (to some extent) the Czech punk band (and fellow dissidents) The Plastic People of the Universe. [via LISNews.com]
3-2-04: Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!
It's Dr. Seuss' 100th birthday today. I just found out he also has a library named after him.
3-2-04: story of an obscure punk band
Narthex: A Small Story from the Days of Punk. Fun story, including references to Philadelphia landmarks, the conversion of a prog-rock fan to punk musician, and a complete album to download (audio tracks and CD artwork). My favorite part:
And on another track, I was checking books out of the school library on the history of the Dada and Surrealist artists.
[via Boing Boing]
3-1-04: can't we just agree to disagree?
I was weeding through the feeds in my aggregator today, hoping to find a few I could unsubscribe from because I've been feeling overwhelmed and know that the feeling will only get worse after a few upcoming trips. I was considering unsubscribing from Follow Me Here, which is odd because it's one of the first blogs I started reading regularly (and it merits inclusion in my slowly-growing list of links). I've been feeling especially overwhelmed by political commentary these days, though, and FmH tends to be a little heavy on the political stuff. But the first item in my aggregator just now was a gem of a post (Is there an echo in here?) on dissent and conformity on the net. The other day, I was talking with someone very close to me about a certain controversial topic that's been in the news lately, and was surprised to find that someone disagreed with me. I was doing a miserable job of trying to explain my views on the subject, and I couldn't seem to just let the subject drop (though finally I did).
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