Bookstores
We went to the downtown area today and did some window shopping. West Side Book Shop was one of our stops. I’d never been […]
We went to the downtown area today and did some window shopping. West Side Book Shop was one of our stops. I’d never been […]
Meanwhile, 140 miles away, in Kendallville, IN, a petition is being circulated to stop a proposed $7.9 million library building. Once the opposing signatures […]
On Tuesday night, Frisinger Park was jam-packed with cars and trucks and a girls’ softball team and their parents and boosters. Passing through the […]
It was virtually impossible for me to sleep last night. The heat is upon us, and it definitely rises to the top in our […]
In between thoroughly (and devastatingly, I might add) trashing the new Wolfgang Petersen “Troy” movie and bemoaning the scariness of having just graduated, two […]
It just doesn’t get any more Fascist FunDumbMentalist than this: ‘The Roman Catholic bishop of Colorado Springs has issued a pastoral letter saying that […]
Three girls coming into the ‘Media Center’ for Career Day presentations on cosmetology today: ‘See, this say media center, but a media center where […]
I guess I was grossly mistaken when we moved here; I thought we would be paying much less for gas per gallon than we […]
Ann Arbor isn’t the liberal bastion I thought it was; while ‘guest teaching’ today at a central AA middle school during a Career Day […]
Yesterday I was riding one of the Hatcher elevators with an undergrad who was helping a co-worker cart some ficuses somewhere (aren’t ficuses always […]
Three weeks ago, NPR’s Barbara Bradley Hagerty recently did a report on Catholics and John Kerry that has raised some temperatures in the blogopshere. […]
It’s an absolutely lovely night outside. Humid, but a perfect temp, with the Big Dipper directly overhead, night sounds all around—it would be a […]
Frank pointed out the cover of Section E ‘Connection’ of tonight’s Ann Arbor News (Motto: ‘Still the World’s Worst Website). Headlined Highs and Lows […]
A bicyclist and I came to the same narrow passageway in the sidewalk on Maynard in front of Ambrosia and Madras Masala at exactly […]
Speaking of the local election story, the front page article on the subject mentions that Ann Arbor mayor John Hieftje has a Republican challenger […]
In today’s Ann Arbor News, there was a huge (why so huge, I don’t know, but it obliterated a far more important story about […]
On tonight’s broadcast of The Connection (an NPR-affiliated radio show): Blogs offer a constant rush of political opinion: the gloating, the jeering, and those […]
From this morning’s Free Press: Historically, Brood X has sidestepped Wayne, Macomb and most of Oakland counties. They were, however, spotted in Bloomfield Hills […]
Nancy Pearl was on NPR this morning, recommending older political novels to serve as an antidote to all of those scary partisan election-year non-fiction […]
We’re having regular thunderstorms and thunderstorm forecasts this time of year. Having never experienced thunderstorm season in the Midwest, I find it fascinating. Last […]
It amuses me, I’m not sure why, that there are more articles on the upcoming cicada infestation in the Washington Post (a search of […]
My god I didn’t think it was possible, but it’s true; the Boy Emperor is incable of learning from his mistakes and « is […]
« Delta Air Lines says pay cuts or bankruptcy »; in other words, pilots should screw themselves out of a third of their paychecks […]
Seems a little lazier, a little more mellow here than last week (well, except for the freeways, but that’s another story). There were a […]
Just woke up from another spectacularly weird dream … this one was a first, since it was just like watching a TV show and […]
« Lawrence Ferlinghetti is still beating ‘em »: ’… The first plane to hit the first Twin Tower The last plane to hit the […]
Thomas Jefferson wasn’t perfect, but he was on to a good thing when he wrote that separation of church and state was a good […]
The Torture Roundup for tonight: « A pregnant Lynddie England gets hung out to dry ». She’s been turned into the face of American […]
Publicly, the NeoCons want us to think everything is a-okay and hunky-dory. Privately, « as the Washington Post reports », military officials are unhappy […]
Downtown was (if possible) more packed today than usual. Must have been the nice weather and lots of out-of-towners. We saw a couple of […]
I don’t think it’s a particularly uncommon thing to want to eat out at a restaurant and (if you’re a non-smoker, or if tobacco […]
Here’s a familiar one. A newspaper (in this case, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune) interviews a handful of undergrads (in this case, at the University of […]
Repetitive stress injury workers’-comp costs as a justification for implementing RFID ….. hmmmmm. That’s a new one on me. I can’t say (as a […]
As usual, Librarian.net puts it way better (and way more succinctly) than I ever could: Of course, any librarian knows that the best thing […]
Nicholson Baker has announced that Duke University Libraries has agreed to house his American Newspaper Repository collection. To make a long story short, Baker […]
Humidity was fairly high today (now yesterday). I brought a sweater, but the library complex was strangely warmer. It felt like the first really […]
There’s an attention-grabbing Library Journal article about “NextGen” users (born between 1982 and 2002) and their attributes. (Courtesy Creative Librarian.) They’re “format agnostic,” they’re […]
Why does it take the publicized photos of humiliated and abused and tortured Iraqi prisoners (which has arguably further ruined our tattered image and […]
There is a website devoted to the infamous 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, at which you can view a slide show and order a video […]
You know, I’m sorry, but I’m on an our-culture-is-crappy kick tonight. While at that notorious southeast AA middle school, I served a couple of […]
While subbing today at the city’s notorious southeast-side middle school, I noticed one thing during a geography class viewing of a movie about South […]
I just woke up from two very weird dreams. In the first, Frank died and I started dating Julia Roberts. Yes, really. And after […]
“Friends” and “Frasier” are broadcasting their final episodes this week and next, respectively. “Friends” I watched occasionally but never really got the point of. […]
It’s supposed to be over 80 outdoors today. No problem, right? Well, in the past two weeks or so, the huge turn-on-the-air-conditioning project has […]
According to this account, seven students from Kalamazoo College were banned from entering Bush’s campaign rally at Wings Stadium on Monday. So much for […]
I’m a little late on this, but here goes. Grab the nearest book. Open the book to page 23. Find the fifth sentence. Post […]
Without going into details, my grades this past term were either as good as or better than I expected. So I came off all […]
It’s too disgusting to even link to, but Major League DumbBall is putting ads on the freakin’ bases, for cryin’ out loud. And they’re […]
Much more bustling downtown today. Still not like a typical school day, but Steve says the traffic getting around town, especially around State, was […]
The Boy Emperor’s Cabal’s attempts to screw workers out of overtime pay were scuttled by the Senate, at least temporarily, : ‘The U.S. Senate […]