Title Varies Slightly

and that may make my an anachronism. Or not.
It’s Wednesday, so that means an email from ALA Online with lots of fun (yet conceivably work-related) links, like this one from Web Worker Daily on “Six More Reasons to Use a Paper To-Do List.”
While I realize that pencil and paper have real limitations, and are not [...]

The creator of “B.C.” and “The Wizard of Id,” Johnny Hart died on Holy Saturday. He was 76.
Hart was a “born-again Christian,” who sometimes upset people by inserting Christian and Biblical themes into his strips. I didn’t always like the way he viewed relations between the sexes, but I always knew his strips would [...]

The new Harry Potter novel, like others before it, will be a source of headaches for some libraries because of challenges to its appropriateness, because of the content (or how that content is perceived). But Scholastic, the series’ publisher, is making libraries sign a burdensome agreement in order to purchase the final volume.
“Libraries must limit [...]

UPDATE: I got a shirt from Cafe Press. I cannot wait.
Jenny Levine of The Shifted Librarian has the Comedy Central clip from the Colbert Report.
I deeply desire this slogan on a T-shirt. Even if I have to wear a stupid Comedy Central logo along with it. I’d weart it on my desk shift.

Down a ways in my “Muggles” post, I mentioned SQPN. I want to take some time to draw your attention to the wide variety of podcasts there, and encourage you to subscribe to the ones that interest you. I’m not an official SQPN volunteer (although I do contribute to their sister apostolate, Rosary Army), [...]

Quite a bit of flap about the book The Gospel According to Judas. I had a draft started with my perspective, but Jimmy Akin beat me to the punch and said it better in the bargain.
Go. Read. Ponder.

UPDATE: Thanks to Eric Childress for providing the WorldCat.org link for The Day My Mother Left. Now you can look to see whether the book is in a library near you, as well as contemplating its purchase. I REALLY should have thought of that… old habits, etc.
Just heard a podcast interview from NPR with James [...]

Perhaps in my life I shall not heal the world, change my profession, or sow a seed that leads anyone to respond to divine grace.
And I consent to that. But, Lord, please, don’t let me pass from this life and be remembered only as a scandal or a dirty joke.
And may it not be so [...]

Wheelie Catholic provides a beautiful video clip of competitive wheelchair dancers.
Interesting to see the different kinds of wheelchairs. Wonder if there is a special sport chair for dancing as there is for some other sports? Also, do all these people have perfect trunk control? I only saw one woman who seemed to be wearing [...]

I’ve been listening of late to the new Beatles album, “Love.”
Or is it the Giles and George Martin album?
If you’re not up to speed on the whole controversy, you might want to start at the Wikipedia article about the album: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_(The_Beatles_album)
To see the comments on Amazon, you would think that the Martins should be burned [...]