CNN has a comedy series, about the Events

One time me and my digital archivist buddy Paul were at a restaurant and the waitress, making small talk, asked us what we did for a living. Paul froze up and I told her "we're librarians," and she said, cool. After she left Paul turned to me and said "I didn't know you could do that"

I love to take a long piece of text I wrote months ago and hack it into a different shape to repurpose it as a different piece of text. I'm allowed

the world of anime and manga has something for everyone!

spent two solid hours talking to undergrads about my profession and I think I'm done for the day

This guy put on suspenders and shades and his best watch and pulled his easy chair right up to the computer desk so he could jack it to ASCII boobs

I'm looking through a 1939 college yearbook and there are three different students with the first name "Adelaide." What was going on circa 1918 that this was the most popular girl's name

I have to read a lot of obituaries for work reasons and I just saw one which mentioned that the deceased "outlived two ex-husbands"

No Buffy without Xander, no Buffyverse without Whedon, no Whedon without a certain inescapable rancidity, often in the background and sometimes very much in the foreground

@cheatlines.co Cole Dopen

I'm personally "going through it"

Get in on the ground floor of Mamylon's latest character ranking thread, folks

Watching an extremely chill episode of Aria. Everybody else in the room has already fallen asleep, because of how chill this show is

Whom today remembers The Knife

Everybody knows a guy like this

Yesterday we watched "Penguin Highway" (I picked up the Blu Ray for a few bucks) and let me just say this: there's a lot of stuff that happens in this movie that would not fly in a modern American animated film for kids

if I check everything off my to-do list, is it OK if I turn off the lights and sit in the dark for the rest of the day

The important thing to see here is that Vanderbilt is acquiring the campus and closing the school, they want the real estate, they don't want the college

I'm kind of glad that there are no more podcasts

an undergrad just asked me to complete a lengthy questionnaire about my advice for students considering a career in archives. which is a problem because my advice is "don't"

Tenured professors, who pay attention to which way the wind is blowing and which side their bread is buttered on, are no longer talking about decolonizing the curriculum

I'm reading up on "direct admissions," which is when a college or university sends an acceptance letter to a high school student who hasn't even applied to that college... trying to decide how I feel about it

Max Huffman's Dilbert strips were the first thing I thought of when I heard the news

I'm introducing new legislation that will make it a crime to ask me for something while I'm having lunch

SWEET HOME ALABAMA PLAY THAT DEAD BAND'S SONG TURN THOSE SPEAKERS UP FULL BLAST PLAY IT ALL NIGHT LONG

I have a Scott Adams story but it's really not mine to tell

I just imagined a dessert called "Coffee Disaster"

I am ostensibly finished with the big project that I spent the last three months of last year working on. I have another big project that I'm supposed to spend the next three months on, and yet I find myself starting work on a third big project that would take me a year to finish, minimum

I just saw someone use the word "wherein," unironically

I read a lot of obituaries at my job and sometimes I read one that offhandedly mentions that the deceased person has gone to heaven. how would you know that

wow! it happened again

"The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. ...

Treat yourself today. Put this on and turn it up

If you have a TIAA account you should go and have a look at it. No reason in particular

One thing I think several times a day is "that's not how I'd do it"

The world of anime and manga has something for everyone

Back to work tomorrow after the holiday break so I went out and got the good tacos

There was a stretch there in the early 90s where a lot of people were extremely weird about Juliana Hatfield

Had to delete one because they don't let us have private accounts on here

Local cryptid spotted in morning fog

I dreamed that someone gifted me a bottle of Pet Smart brand cologne

I think it was Michael O'Donoghue who said that making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy

Mecha latte

College isn't real

Melancholy at the Pep Boys

I'm about to eat "the forbidden sandwich"

I have a resolution but I'll tell you about it later. It's nothing major

I think we were very lucky to get this show and doubly lucky to get 22 episodes of it

Just learned about "d*nganronpa"

I wonder if I'll ever remember or rediscover who said this. Maybe I came up with it myself. Or maybe it'll turn out that it's from a Dilbert comic