The Big She-Bang 3 at ABC No Rio
Saturday, August 9
"The Big She Bang is an all-day event of workshops, panel discussions, visual art, and music by and for womyn and womyn identified artists & community members."
11am-9:30pm
(You might need a MySpace account to view their schedule, but that's the only place I see it.)
ALA has a build your own READ poster gizmo, which I saw on The Shifted Librarian.
They give you four choices of backgrounds, and bizarrely, the one I liked best was "Americana."
Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly List 29
I feel a lot of pressure right now since my last blog post on this topic got widely read due to its having been posted in American Librarians Direct. This week, IMAGINARY PLACES and a candidate for the memory hole.
Last night I couldn't connect to the internet from home. First I went through a lengthy telephone system diagnostic with Time Warner, my service provider. Ultimately they determined that the problem was with my ISP, Earthlink. I tried to get help from them over the phone, but after an hour on hold I got disconnected. Following is a transcript of my online chat with Earthlink. Up until the very end I was convinced I was chatting with a bot.
I'm getting awfully tabby lately, so here are a bunch of links, so I can close tabs and not feel so bad about it.
Annotations and provenance information if you read the whole post.
I'm always saying I wish I could wear a uniform to work so I wouldn't have to figure out what to wear everyday. And now I've found it: a t-shirt that says,
Seen on The Googlization of Everything.
At first accidentally and then with deliberation I ended up spending the first half of July reading only librarian literature--that is books and zines by and/or about librarians.
Look ma, I'm on tv. As I wrote to Michael Spelman, who interviewed and taped me for the ALA Emerging Leaders video Leadership Lessons, "well, i didn't hate it, which says a lot.
"that is no reflection of you or your filmmaking or interviewing skills, of course, just my being appalled by how i look, sound, and talk."
TEEN ANGST & LIBRARY HORROR
a benefit for
Radical Reference
Fri., July 25, 2008, 7:30 pm - 11 pm
ABC No Rio - 156 Rivington St, NYC