Happy Thanksgiving!

As you consume too much food today, please take a moment to enjoy this NSFW song about Thanksgiving…and “Star Wars.” Edited to add:

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Fun With Fonts

I’m Comic Sans, Asshole Llama font This is the first thing that came up for a Google search of “font humor.” It contains my new favorite Lady Gaga parody.   Because it’s Saturday, that’s why.

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Good Eggs

The Great Gatsby Game Go. Play. It. NOW.

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Stuff and Things

Happy Valentine’s Day! Library Lovers Day – 14th February 2011 Pretty self-explanatory. I can only hope that BBC America airs this at some point. Why DO we all love Mr Darcy? In a fascinating new TV series, author Sebastian Faulks reveals why we find some literary characters so irresistible I <3 Wil Wheaton more than [...]

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2010 in Books

I read 188 books in 2010. (Well, ok, I haven’t finished that last one yet, but I will later tonight.) The 188 books break down thusly, although there are some overlapping categories: 68 adult fiction, 3 of which were short story collections 62 YA fiction, 1 of which was a short story collection 22 adult [...]

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“Top Gear”

I adore “Top Gear.” I don’t particularly care about cars. These two things are not incompatible. Richard, Jeremy, and James–the hosts–have amazing (if cranky) chemistry, they do ridiculous things with ridiculous cars, it’s terribly British, and it’s just perfection. So why in the name of all that’s holy is it being redone in an American [...]

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Snape, Snape, Severus Snape

I know for a fact that I have posted this before, but I don’t care. It’s too awesome not to share again: The Potter Puppet Pals have their very own YouTube channel, with lots and lots of videos. Yay!

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Gift of the Gab

Seen on Twitter: 20 Awesomely Untranslatable Words from Around the World I love lists like this. Because I speak two other languages, and know smatterings of several more, there are lots of these rattling around in my head. Knowing that while two languages may both be aware of a concept but only one has a [...]

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Save the Words!

I have adopted some words that need saving. Won’t you join me? A mere five minutes of your time will save these words from being cut from the OED. I adopted “blateration,” “senticous,” and “cynicocratical.” Save the Words Find out more in this GeekDad article and NPR story. (My very own Geek Dad sent me [...]

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Library Girl

Still feeling a bit under the weather, but I’ll make an effort: (via Bookshelves of Doom) I did not actually work in the library during college. Oh no, I was a theatre geek and worked in the scene shop. And teched a whole bunch of shows. It was great! But this is very much a [...]

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