hometown heroes

Famous for having a river that caught on fire, topping the 2010 Forbes list of most miserable cities, and being the home of sports teams that can never quite win, even our disgruntled hippie protests kind of suck...

Occupy Cleveland looks pretty...unoccupied.

(via Sacbee)

bloglife crisis

Just as I'm thrashing around in the midst of a full blown "OMG, I hate the internet and blogs and writing and who cares anyway, screw you free ice cream" snit, Blogger goes and changes their interface, making it very minimalistic and...oh-so very blank. It's like the canvases that have been propped up on my easel for, like, ages and ages now, just taunting me.

But I picked up a paint brush yesterday for the first time since forever ago and, then suddenly...it's a landscape.

It's Monday &...

...guess where I am!



Each morning, the reference librarians do the dreaded "send list," pulling requested books off the shelves to send to other libraries in the consortium. I always enjoy the nonfiction list because over the years I've noticed that it gives me a pretty good idea of people's current interests. For instance...if a celebrity dies, we end up pulling their biographies for at least a week afterward and when Halloween rolls around each year, every mom in the tri-county area wants a book on homemade costumes. It's usually pretty amusing.

But today I noticed that lately I've been pulling quite a few books like this and this and this.
Times, they are a-hopenchangin'.