May 20046 May 2004 Appreciate America! Old Commie-scare book cover has a different kind of relevance today. Courtesy of Tom Tomorrow. Farkers are doin' up book covers and movie posters for unlikely Harry Potter sequels. A website devoted to bad Scrabble hands. Some don't look too bad, what with a Q and a U both on the rack and all. BTW, we were introduced to Speed Scrabble several months ago. Fun game. Excerpts from Mrs. Vice President's out-of-print and not-gonna-be-reprinted novel Sisters, including sex bits and Mrs. Cheney's props to the libraries that helped her with research. Howard Stern and Jimmy Kimmel suggested that people write to the FCC about a recent Oprah rerun, and more than 1600 folks did. The Smoking Gun has posted a handful of the complaints. Some are funny, some are just nasty. We have an even greater respect for Pat Tillman after reading this account of his memorial service. 3 May 2004
1 May 2004 Number 14 to win! The obvious Kentucky Derby bet for librarians. Herman was in the library earlier this week. Farts, butts, and boogers get kids reading. But you already knew that. Looks like a parody of The Da Vinci Code is being published in September. Around the time people who are now on the holds list for the Dan Brown book finally get to check it out. The Ex-Hilarator randomly combines a single-panel cartoon with the caption from a different cartoon. The results are often funnier than the original gags. We don't suggest doing this while working a public-service desk, though. The Lipstick Librarian has been watching Chappelle's Show, and is now selling "I'm a librarian, bitch!" t-shirts. We didn't write Cursor Miner's song, "The Library," but we sorta wish we did. (Seen on Library Link of the Day, which we've added to the groll.) Coupla quotes added to Lib.Sigs.: "We get checks from the government and spend them on beer!" (Aqua Teen Hunger Force, episode 40. Line spoken by Err, the Mooninite) "Don't you know that those old musty books, as you call them, are the only things worth anything in all this library? All the rest is trash." ("Mrs. Millington and Her Librarian. A Love Story." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, June 1881, p. 109) Found in American Memory!
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