Lower East Side Librarian

"This message may have been intercepted and read by government agencies including the FBI, CIA, NSA without notice or warrant or knowledge of sender or recipient."

...is a sig quote I first encountered in an email from my spouse. ...

I installed reCAPTCHA, which I hope will mean less spam comments. With this hope in mind, I've re-enabled comments from anonymous users. Hope this works!

Our Thanksgiving for nine (who knew so many people would say yes with only a few days' notice?!?) will feature smoked turkey, roast duck, and a mini-chicken from May Wah Healthy Vegetarian Food Inc. on Hester Street, but will not boast any Codfish Balls. ...

This is another link from my friend Susan--Print Fetish blog. Yum! ...

My friend Susan's friend Trong made an art project involving rice, mylar, gold, and first chapters of four books. ...

The 20th Annual Independent and Small Press Book Fair will be Saturday, December 1st and Sunday, December 2nd, at the New York Center for Independent Publishing (an educational program of The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen), at 20 West 44th Street in New York City. As always, it's free. ...

Here's a quote from Sewer, Gas & Electric: the Public Works Trilogy, a futuristic novel by Matt Ruff that kind of cracked me up...

As I'm painfully slowly trying to recover from the deadly whirlwind of orientation, instruction, and consultations that decimated me at work for late August, September, and most of October, I'm trying to catch up with writing about the twenty or so tabs I keep open in Firefox hoping I'll some day getting around to writing about them. Today's entry is: the ZMedia Librarian blog, which is about alternative media in libraries, particularly zines.

From the NYC Anarchists discussion list:

Halloween Rocks!
Celebrate Early at the
4th Annual Really Really Free Market

St. Mark's Church on Sunday, October 28th
between noon and 5 p.m.!