Tom Holmberg

I'll love it when library boards decide that library admins. don't need a library degree either and hire MBAs for the job (of course I'll be retired by then, hopefully).

My theory is that these admins. went into Library Science and then discovered it wasn't "cool" (all their friends went to computers), so they think they are making it "cool", when, in fact, they are making it obsolete.

Flex Seal glue could stop their "down there" from winking.

The first "I've fallen, and I can't get up" ad appeared in 1989. Happy 30th anniversary.

They must have gotten his family out of the freezer then.

Maybe he's been back in the institution? Serenity now.

How very 90s. It was annoying then (MST3K being the exception), it's annoying now.

I think of them as "number two."

Do they at least have a British accent?

Their new ad: "If you notice your genitals falling off, stop using and call your physician."

I like both. I can get books I can't get elsewhere through Amazon, but with online shopping you lose the joy of stumbling across something you didn't know existed while browsing the shelves. I miss the original Borders and I really miss all the specialty bookstores that used to exist.

The latest incidence of medicines we've had to sit through countless commercials for and now we have to sit through commercials for lawyers suing the makers is Jardiance/Invokana/Farxiga which causes- wait for it- genital gangrene. I think I'd rather have diabetes. https://www.drug-injury.com/druginjurycom/2018/09/newer-diabetes-drugs-side-effect-fourniers-gangrene-serious-infection-of-genital-area.html

I's rather think"Dub-Dub" - Wendy Watson from the late, great "Middleman"

Yes, I read that, and it's true. Library managements want to turn libraries into community centers, at the same time "vigorously" weeding collections. Why libraries can't do both-be a community center and retain strong collections-never gets explained.

They've published companion volumes giving background and translating the foreign language material. Some people are turned off by all the Old French and Latin. https://www.amazon.com/Dorothy-Dunnett-Companion-Elspeth-Morrison/dp/0375725873/ https://www.amazon.com/Dorothy-Dunnett-Companion-II/dp/0375726683/

I wasn't implying she's folksy, but rather she's rich Hollywood movie star telling everyone else how to live their lives. Reminds me of the Firesign Theatre's "The Howl of the Wolf Movie": "Presenting honest stories of working people as told by rich Hollywood movie stars."

And every year the plot that librarians will lose their jobs to computers becomes, regrettably, more realistic.

Curfew must not ring tonight!

As a librarian I (along with most in our profession) have a warm spot for this movie. Plus it has Sue Randall.

Knopf is re-releasing the "Lymond Chronicles" by Dorothy Dunnett in new paperback editions with new covers. My favorite historical fiction (I just recently re-read them).

I can listen to "Ecstasy of Gold" (yes, it's Ennio Morricone music from "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly") all day. More Morricone, please!

There's a release date of April 16, but whether this will go into wide release or play at festivals or go to streaming etc., it doesn't say on IMDB. It would be nice if PBS would pick it up, or even TCM.

It'll all come out in the wash anyway.

"Master of Dark Shadows" a documentary about the show: