Now, normally I wouldn't post to a popular flash movie making the rounds. But...Kittens and Led Zeppelin are two of my favorite things.

While at the book festival I came across a new edition of Matthew Lewis's The Monk. It's got a new introduction by Stephen King. While I'm no great fan (or detractor for that matter) of Stephen King, if his name causes people to pick up the book I'm all for it. Written in 1796, by a nineteen year old who never wrote another novel, it's got more gore and creepiness than anything else I've ever read. Or even watched in a movie for that matter!

I've finished reading the collection of short stories by Anthony Boucher. While I was aware that he wrote in the Science Fiction/Fantasy and Detective/Mystery genres, I didn't realize that he did both at the same time. There's a story about a werewolf...who gets mixed up with spies. And the solution to a detective's case?...time travel. They are all really excellent and clever stories. In addition, every single one of the main characters is a serious drunk. Like blacking out for 36 hours, or when waking up from being punched out, naturally assuming that he'd just been drunk. Highly recommended.

Friday night, someone got stuck in the elevator in my appartment building...between floors...with his dog! They had to call firemen to get him out.

This weekend Baltimore is having it's annual Book Festival.

I put a link over there on the left to my tangent blog True Patron Stories. They're just stories of things that happen on the reference desk, no links, not daily, mostly just to record some of the more crazy human encounters I have at work.

This has been around for a while. The Mega Penny Project, helps you visualize REALLY large numbers.

Foliage changing color in the Fall still creeps me out. It just doesn't seem right that trees should abandon you in the winter. Anyway, it happens here in Maryland even if it doesn't in Oregon.

I can't believe I missed Hurricane Isidore by just a few weeks!

Every Sunday night, I stay up too late just so that I can watch the fifteen minute show Aqua Teen Hunger Force. This pretty much says it all: "Aqua Teen Hunger Force is about three human-sized food products that solve mysteries. There leader, Master Shake, is an extra large drink cup with an extra loud mouth. His partner Frylock is a brilliant box of French fries. Their buddy Meatwad is a wad of meat." At least I'm not the only one obsessed.
ATHF.com
Which Aqua Teen Hunger Force character are you?

The last time I flew, I left my beloved (and expensive) tweezers at home for fear that they would be confiscated. Thanks to this handy fact sheet, I now know I could have brought them along.

I can't believe this entire time I thought Erika Christensen and Julia Stiles were the same person! At least I'm not alone in this.
[thanks Alexa]

My job has just purchaced me a PocketPC (more on Palm vs. PocketPC later). The free software Pocket TVallows you to view MPEG movies. Screw downloading promotional videos and movie trailers. Here are some excellent online archives of moving images.



The Library of Congress has the following:
Coca-Cola Advertising ~ Films ~ 1951-1999 Fifty Years of Coca-Cola Television Advertisements: Highlights from the Motion Picture Archives at the Library of Congress

Coolidge Era ~ Multiformat ~ 1924-1929 Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929

Edison Companies Film and Sound Recordings Inventing Entertainment: the Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies

Factories, Westinghouse ~ Films ~ 1904 Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904

Film, Animated ~ 1900-1921 Origins of American Animation

McKinley, William, and Pan-American Exposition ~ Films ~ 1901 The Last Days of a President: Films of McKinley and the Pan-American Exposition, 1901

New York City ~ Films ~ 1898-1906 The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906

Presidential Inaugurations ~ Multiformat ~ 1789-2001 "I Do Solemnly Swear...": Presidential Inaugurations

Ranching Culture, Nevada ~ Multiformat ~ 1945-1982 Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982

Roosevelt, Theodore ~ Films ~ 1898-1919 Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film

San Francisco and 1906 Earthquake ~ Films ~ 1897-1916 Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916

Spanish-American War ~ Films ~ 1898-1901 The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures

Variety Stage ~ Multiformat ~ 1870-1920 The American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920

Work and Leisure ~ Films ~ 1894-1915 America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915



The Internet Archive has the Prelinger Archives a collection of over 45,000 "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films. [hint search for CONTENT ADVISORY]

LIBRARIANS IN THE MOVIES : An Annotated Filmography. From Martin Raish of the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.
[via Transom]

It's Girl Scout Cookie time!!! Lucky for me, I can purchase them from a co-worker. I ran out last year. This year, I fully intend to purchace a year's supply of cookies. "For safety and security reasons,...Sales ...on the Internet...may not be conducted by anyone at anytime." You'll have to go to their Girl Scout Locator to find someone to sell them to you in person.

Speaking of zines...in Baltimore, I shop for them at Atomic Books. You can order from their website too.

Most of the library zines I have been mentioning here fall into that category because they are personal zines written by people who work in libraries. Therefore, the library content can vary, especially if the person writing the zine changes jobs, moves or has something more important than work to talk about. "Rejected Band Names" ($2 PO Box 330156, Murfreesboro TN 37133-0456) is an excellent exampble of this. That's why I was really excited that the issue of "Transom" ($1 PO Box 7716 Seattle WA 98177-0716) I recieved was "#7 The Library Issue"! The content will probably provide fodder for links here in the future, as I completely disect it.

Best reality TV show, ever. PBS's Frontier House. It came out in April, but seems to be re-broadcast pretty frequently. I watched the entire series in a marathon event and was hooked.

I'm back. I got a cold on my last day of vacation, so it took ma a while. Here and here are some pictures from my vacation. None of the pictures of the resort came out. Too bad, because the pictures on there website don't really do it justice. For educational interest, here is an excellent site about Mesoamerican Ballgames.