Happy 4th!

Passings: Ray Bradbury

"Love what you love."

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National Library Week - Monsters on the loose? World Ending? You need to get to the library.

Credit: American Library Assoc

Another National Library Week comes to a close, and we're a week away from a new episode of Supernatural.  To celebrate - HUZZAH! - I give you an encore picspam presentation of Sam and Dean in the library.

Hey, have you done your research yet?

"The Pilot".  Microfiche readers are hot.  

"Hook Man".  Dean totally checks out the librarian's ass when she walks away.  The hot, naughty librarian.  It's not a stereotype when it's true.  

"Hook Man".  Buck up little camper.  It's not that bad!  

"No Rest for the Wicked".  Gratuitous book pr0n.  

"No Rest for the Wicked".  Granted, it's a private library with closed stacks, but I think Bobby's house counts counted.  *tear*  

"Are you There God?  It's me,  Dean Winchester".  Dean's going to take the tiniest book in the pile.  Sam didn't forget the pie.  He was trying to respect the 'no food in the reading room'  rule.  Naturally an exception is made for sweet, sweet healing booze.  

"Are you there God?  It's me, Dean Winchester".  The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant - Melvil Dewey.  Credit: The CW

"The Monster at the End of this Book".  Dude, I'm full frontal in here.

For the night is dark and full of maraschinos

Red silk, red eyes, the ruby red at her throat, red lips curled in a faint smile. 

Many called her beautiful.  She was not beautiful.  She was red, and terrible, and red.

GRRM is very specific about the Red Priestess Melisandre's physical appearance.  And even though I know actresses with glowing red eyes don't exist, and CGI would probably just end up looking cheesy, it still bugs me.

Melisandre should have red eyes.  Amirite?

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun.

Also, Tubular friend The TV Watcher  commented:

I feel like maybe you should have gotten Jim Caviezel to play your demon lamb cake because that was pretty much like going through the Stations of the Cross.

That's Hobo Demon Lamb to you.

My ass is delicious.

It's British Friday! It's British Friday!

You know nothing Jon Snow edition

Men's Journal / Jake Chessum

Bathing in Knowledge

Tip'o the hat to @bethanew!

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Oh pile of books, oh pile of books, how lovely are your pages

Consider this the Orthodox Christmas coda to my ongoing discussion with ItsJustMo and BethLamPen.

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Check out The Mary Sue for 11 more book trees.

It's British Friday! It's British Friday! Hot Scot Edition

In the interest of equal time and delicious accents.


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It's British Friday! It's British Friday!

All tucked in?  Nine is going to read you a story.





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Totally geektastic gift idea for the SoIaF fan in your life - 2011

These are just so astonishingly fantastic they cried out for their very own post.

BEHOLD!

The Ladies of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire rendered as My Little Ponies.

Winter Christmas is coming.

Unicorns Cupcakes and Whimsy by TiellaNicole on Etsy via Winter is Coming, Bitches.

Previously on wax|wendy: 2009 Gift Guide, 2010 Gift Guides

You can't live in a jacket, but you can live in a book

Or a collection of books, if they're used to build a child sized reading cottage.  I think we just put a period on this conversation.

@BethLamPen, you've got some work to do, sister.

book shelter by e.kristina on Flickr

Read your bookcase

Well, that discussion just got a lot more interesting.

Laughing Squid: Modular Bookcase System Consists of Alphanumeric Shelving Cubes

It's a Stampede! Link Roundup - 8/16

Oh yes.  I ordered a pair.

Dr. Martens 1460 8 Eye Boot - Pewter Koram Flash - Shoebuy.com

I'll be wearing one of these when I marry my next ex-husband.  Spiffing Jewelry via The Mary Sue

Step by step instructions for making your own custom stemware.  You'll have to drink a lot of wine to stave off the nightmares.

Do you hear a baby crying?

How to make a doll into a wine glass in 23 quick steps via @NoShowMo

There are many rooms in my Father's house, and in each one a bookcase.

Bookcase Porn - A Showcase of Sexy Bookcases

You can have my Oxford Comma

credit: Dona Nobis Pacem

when you pry it out of my cold, dead, and decomposing hands.

Although it seems that rumors of its demise have been exaggerated.  As Linda Holmes at NPR explains,

... there was a rumbling that the University of Oxford was dumping its own comma. As it turned out, this wasn't the case.  They haven't changed their authoritative style guide, but they've changed their internal PR department procedures that they use for press releases. The PR department and the editorial department are two different things, so this doesn't necessarily mean much of anything, except that it's maybe a little embarrassing to have the PR department of the university with which you're affiliated abandon your style guide.

You know who's really excited by this news?  Stephanie Meyer.  By Reasoning with Vampires' count, she's never met a comma she didn't like.

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Happy Bloomsday!

…I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.


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British Friday - National Library Week edition

As a general rule, librarians are a kick in the pants socially, often full of good humor, progressive, and naturally, well read.  They tend to be generalists who know so much about so many things that they are quite the opposite of the boring old poops they have been made out to be. Most of them are full of life, some even full of the devil.

-- Bill Hall, editorial page editor, Lewiston (Idaho) Tribune, Sept. 9, 2001.

National Library Week - Conan the Librarian

National Library Week - "Party Girl"

".. one of the hidden masters of the world — a librarian. They control information. Don't ever piss one off." - Spider Robinson, The Callahan Touch

National Library Week - Doctor Who "Silence in the Library"

The Library.  So big it doesn't need a name.  Just a great big 'The'.

God hates hate. God loves poetry.

We will run from hate
Every adult & child shall be in thine heart
And thou shalt teach them
to read (between) the words.

You can't engage the crazy, and you can't shout down the crazy.  God Loves Poetry is a tumblr that attempts to subvert the crazy by blacking out words from The Westboro Baptist Church's daily hate-filled press releases.

We began this website to demonstrate that everyone has the ability to manipulate negativity by using just a little bit of creativity. Art, humor and love are three of the most powerful tools used to combat hate. That’s why we’re implementing these tools to turn the Westboro Baptist Church’s hatred into something both positive and enjoyable.  The idea is basic: just eliminate words to create something meaningful, potentially creating something even more momentous than the original canvas given to you.


You can join the project by submitting your own WBC poetry.  I recommend using the pre-selected press releases.  You really don't want to slog through the Church's own archive.  You might get some on you.  It's kind of like when you step in poop.  No matter how many times you run your shoe through the grass, you never really get all of it.

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