The library isn't your parents. We supply the books. You decide which ones you and your kids want to read. P.S. There is nudity in In the Night Kitchen? I missed it the first time around. This five-year-old didn't notice or care. Neither did my parents. www.reuters.com/world/us-sup...

Demi Moore buying some Jean-Luc Ponty at Tower Records in L.A., 1977.

Here's your chance to stick it to Amazon by getting a $35 book for cheap. P.S. I probably make very little from this, but I'm not here to get rich. Might be a good time to buy Books 1 and 2 and give them to someone you love for Christmas.

In my office working, chilling, and listening to Ravel. Or trying to. There's a skateboarder outside on the tennis court making ceaseless clacking sounds. Like lumber being tossed off the back of a truck.

An interesting early edition of Geoffrey Household's Rogue Male. From the Services Library of Chatto & Windus, 1941.

Latest batch of trade paperbacks. Available now!

Android Auto: music activity fills whole screen, displays full song titles, album art doesn't disappear and reappear, displays track length and time remaining, improved sound quality via USB. Not as good as CDs, but this is acceptable.

Album cover vanishes when car is in motion, replaced with a generic Bluetooth symbol. I find it distracting when driving in the city or when stuck in stop-and-go traffic. Why does this happen?

Free bench. Wonder what's wrong with it?

Who tf is the guy in the photo? Why won't the system just use the proper album cover?

No CD player in my new car, so I was forced to switch to streaming. To address several shortcomings, I have fashioned a prototype phone holder for my car. It's the 21st century. We shouldn't have to live this way. Ask me anything. #ama P.S. Read Shagduk.

Is it just me, or is Google's "AI Overview" feature absolutely worthless? I'm not sure it has ever given me useful information.

What do you want from life? youtu.be/_SyixSHWgR8?...

Here's a person who gets my favorite song. The look on her face when the bass pedals come in. Recalls the scene in Shagduk when Jenny's sitting on the speaker cabinet. youtu.be/vqfjh0pTvJM?...

R.I.P. Dave Ball youtu.be/stb9jwd5y-k?...

"No...here, don't hold it like that."

R.I.P. Ace Frehley. I had a huge Kiss Army decal on the side of my '77 Caprice in high school. Damn it.

It's that time of the year when people want to read spooky books. Look no further than Sausalito Library's well-stocked Horror & Tales of the Weird section. This is the stuff that influenced Stephen King.

Seen around Sausalito today.

Cyber Man or Padre?

Guess everyone's heard by now. I wept watching this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=koiX...

In the early-'90s, I worked with a guy whose primary job was to format these all day. His cubicle was devoid of any personal touches, and he was surrounded by stacks of these.

I can recall a time when the word "protein" was used solely by nutritionists and zookeepers. There is no way you can excite my tastebuds with that word, or "carbohydrates," or "fats." The ad below makes me think this is probably a meat beverage. No, thanks.

You had a great childhood if you spent long Saturday mornings viewing these beauties.

Shout out to the second person to give 5 stars to Ursula of Ulm on Amazon. The follow-up to Shagduk has flown under the radar since it came out, perhaps because few are aware of it. If you read and loved Shagduk, know that Ursula of Ulm came out last year. Enjoy, and thank you!

Mediocre albums that bring you joy? Just listened to Berlin's debut LP Information with Virginia Macolino on vocals. A few good songs that only hint at their greatness to follow. Nevertheless it scratches the 1980 itch.

Pet peeve: When someone emails you a link and says, "Will you post this flier on the bulletin board?" You click the link and it's just a web page. You have to cut and paste and basically make the flier yourself. Or, they send you the flier and it has a bunch of hyperlinks on it.

Our Vintage Paperback collection is now live! Come on in and show some love to an old paperback. We got your classics, mysteries, sci-fi, fantasy, westerns, romances, poetry. There's still life in these yellowing pages! Great for picnics, the beach, travel, and waiting rooms.

Anyone on Spotify? Look for me, deredordica.

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"Library Science Teachers, Postsecondary"

The incomparable Nyiregyházi, a.k.a. "Pianist X," serving up a double-LP's worth of Liszt.

Enjoy this Pylon video in which they urge us to read a book. Sound advice from 1982. It's a concept It's a feeling I'm learning more almost every day... youtu.be/c3_AeSlzPxw?...

The old McGraw-Hill warehouse in Novato was purchased by the Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity and is set to be a museum.

I'll call Dr. Pepper Coke until the day I die.

Just found out the chick from Moonraker was *not* wearing braces in the film. Mind blown.

I found the best one.

As promised, here is the Spotify link to the Ursula of Ulm playlist. Unfortunately, they didn't have Richard Nixon's piano concerto. If you want to hear it that bad, it's probably out there somewhere. open.spotify.com/playlist/0n0...

Went down the rabbit hole that is Spotify and made a Shagduk playlist. Stay tuned for an Ursula of Ulm one. open.spotify.com/playlist/4Q3...

Name a great drummer. I'll start.

Rob Halford and Leslie Nielsen wearing Taco Bell colors.

While everyone else sat in traffic on 101 yesterday evening, I took the back roads home. It took fifteen minutes longer but it was beautiful and relaxing. Listened to La Traviata.

Stairways to Heaven youtu.be/v-lkTQIVjZY?...

This decorative display at a gas station in Petaluma. I'm thinking it needs more duct tape.

There is a new assisted living facility going up in San Rafael, an It's surprisingly attractive for a new building, in the California Mission Revival style. But the name of the place, Áegis Living, has me going insane over the mysterious acute accent over the A. What's, uh, the deal?

An advertorial supplement to the Chicago Sun-Times included a summer reading list featuring completely fictional books attributed to real authors. The author of the article said he used AI to generate the list and didn’t check his work. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/c...

Scott did great work preserving our civilization, while he could. Check out his story. He's up to four episodes now. P.S. If you can snag any of his releases, do so. They sound great. youtu.be/lAnxhd5ZlWc?...