Most of my friends know that I have a mostly suppressed but lingering tendency toward conspiratorial thinking. I think of myself also as a pretty rational person, so I try to keep this cogitation at bay and avoid sharing it with others. But, one thing that always gets me going down this pot-hole filled path [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘stuff i'm reading’
July 3, 2008
been a long time
I woke up this morning with an overwhelming sense of incompetence. I haven’t really managed to do anything I have recently set out to do: write a scholarly paper, quit smoking, clear up my library’s archives, do some job applications, keep up with this blog. It’s not like I have scads of readers out there [...]
June 19, 2008
funny funny funny
I have been feeling kind of crappy the last couple of days, but this afternoon I found this blog/online mag that I spent reading and cracking up with. So, I thought I’d share it with my two readers:
The Sneeze
I found the sidebar produces some hilarious stuff, esp. the Best of….Good. Good.
That’s All Folks!
June 17, 2008
i love philip roth
Reacting to the fact that my most recent reading choices have been profoundly unchallenging and weakly plotted, I picked up I Married a Communist at the library yesterday. I’m barely into it, but I love it already. I encounter plenty of people who don’t like Roth’s un-abashedly masculine prose. But his clean tense style reflecting [...]
May 19, 2008
new book
Now that I have finished reading all the available Song of Ice and Fire I’ve been having a hard time figuring out what to do with my life. A work (can’t call it a book, since it’s four and probably should be six) like that keeps you involved for awhile and leaves you feeling a [...]
May 6, 2008
sleepy
My brain is dead. I woke at 5:30am and couldn’t get to sleep couldn’t stop obsessing couldn’t stop the madness! I’m so tired and the Lonely Librarian’s Library is so quiet that I feel asleep at my desk for half an hour.
I’m not doing a great job with the daily postings, but no sense in [...]
May 3, 2008
minimalia
Taking a break from the academic discussions of the last couple of days, my head is fuzzy. And the Lonely Librarian is especially lonely with not a one person coming in today. My short Saturday shift ends soon, and I can walk out into the gray warm humidity of a Pittsburgh Spring. Not so bad, [...]
