Library Humor

"Libraries: Where SHHH Happens"
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Also, I wrote an essay for the Oregonian recently titled "Children's Authors are Awful People." It was republished in the Oregon Association of School Librarians newsletter, and here's how it showed up in the Table of Contents.

Do you see what those librarians did there?
(Shhh happens!)

Grab Bag!

Have the day off? Read something! For starters, try this kind review of The Big Book of Gross Stuff that comes with a nice reminder at the end.

For any writers out there, you may want to consider using a pen name or pseudonym . . . like the guy who wrote How to Make Money in Your Spare Time.

Finally, here's a funny shop sign I saw the other day when I was riding my bike.

Photo links.)

"Rock, Paper, Scissors" beats EVERYTHING!

VIA.

The Alpine Finger Wrestling Championships

Learn more!

Competitors subject themselves to an intense regime of finger training in the build up to a tournament, with some preferring to squeeze tennis balls or holding their own body weight with a single finger, some insist that a series of one-finger press ups is the best method of strengthening.

Do you know why Victor Hugo's masterpiece stank?

Because The Hunchback of Notre Dame wasn't more like the Disney film!

Via.

Who wants to go to the museum?

Anyone? Hello? (Via.)

I have a name for my new band!

"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome . . . Men in Belted Sweaters!"

I hate memes.

But even I will make an exception for the "evil cows" meme.

This is why teachers should NEVER leave the classroom.

How a book is born.

Via.

Treadmill Accident

Dang, I actually LIKE this ad!

When a bad book review is AWESOME.

When Mike McGrady's novel Naked Came the Stranger came out, the Village Voice described it this way: as being

“[This book has] such perfectly realized awfulness that it will suck your soul right out of your brainpan and through your mouth, and you will happily let it go.”

McGrady probably loved it. To find out why, check this article. Ooh, and just for kicks, here's an unrelated illustration that struck a chord for me. (It didn't suck my soul out of my brainpan, though. Disappointed? A bit!)