angry patron

i nearly got myself into a fight with a library patron the other day. im not proud of it but it taught me an important lesson, which wasn’t the customer is always right, but rather, don’t mess with big guys who have tattoos and speech impediments, and also dont understand the concept of the ddc (ie numbers [...]

quiz: find your literary match

apparently i am alice in wonderland. which works for me. do the quiz - it’s only 6 questions - and tell me your book match.

You’re Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland!
by Lewis Carroll
After stumbling down the wrong turn in life, you’ve had your mind opened to a number of strange and curious things. As life grows curiouser [...]

how do you say coetzee, nabokov, borges, geothe et al?

this is a really useful resource. if you’ve been avoiding discusing the works of some authors you really like but are fearful of pronouncing their names wrong then click on the link and become empowered. I was.  includes links to sounds files.

madonna/whore complex

in the past five days my signed copy (as in books by their writer) status has changed from madonna to whore. but that’s the end of it for now, reasons being that it has interfered with my “pan choge” (sp? and not my own words) personal collection development policy which basically follows the path of japanese imperialism.  
1. Wednesday:  To Margaret. [...]

all 2.0 and nowhere to go

this week i bought a clip on microphone, downloaded some free software onto the work laptop, and recorded mr cleo bachelor of the year 2006 finalist, who also happens to be a writer and was invited to our library to talk about his books (but that’s probably his secondary talent) .
all well and good. but we [...]

we waited for 2.5 hours for dave’s ‘flourish’

 
opening day of the melbourne writers festival and brad amanda and i went to check out dave eggers, who was doing the keynote speech, part B.
dave is a pretty cool. he looks cool. he publishes a hip literary magazine, his most recentbook about the life of a refugee from the Sudanese civil war has been described [...]

New Hello Kitty Vibrator ~ All Color Set

that is the actual title of the product, available from jbox,  my favourite site of all things J. it’s hello kitty dressed as a horse.
 
by ‘vibrator’ they mean ‘massager’, sans innuendo. look! it fits into your palm! segoi!

one of the few perks of working in a library

 
yesterday i accompanied the chinese language librarian to the chinese bookstore in the city to help select some Chinese learning materials [being the resident girly swot language expert].  but I got sidetracked with the bilingual cooking books and dvds.  i actually don’t cook, i just look at the pictures.  …but i might be tempted to [...]

your new used car

this is a public apology to all affected persons who attended the alia 70th birthday celebration this week.
 i would like to make it clear that ‘winston’ [may or may not be his real name, who knows, i've known him for a total of something like 2 hours] is not my friend, therefore i take no responsibility [...]

bibliochaise

 
another interesting book storage solution. the cushions come in a variety of colours and the frame in black or white, i think.
i think that this would look great in a big room of minimalist decoration. with one of those sexy Arco floor lamps hanging over it. and a banana tree [can't explain why, it just seems [...]