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At last! The Larouchies downtown have someone to compare Obama to besides Hitler.

I really wanted them to do the Tower of Babel, but they went straight from Noah to Abraham. Noah's accent made me think, "Why didn't they just get Sean Connery?" <3 Of course, I never watch the History Channel for history. That would be dangerous. What they're doing with the Bible is...

My bookshelves were creaking from the weight of all the coffee table books I buy remaindered or used. Now I keep them on the bottom shelves of all my bookcases. I like large format books--or "folios" as we call them in the library biz--of art, exotic places, animals, astronomy, castles, and...

My first e-reader was my iPod Touch. Ah memories. I also got a second-hand Sony PRS-700, which I still use sometimes. It doesn't have a lot of modern conveniences, but I think the readability is still unsurpassed. Other than that, I use my tablet or my phone, mainly with the app from my...

My housemate is a bit of a carpenter. Whenever she's looking around for a project, she'll ask me, "You need another bookcase?" The answer is always yes.

Hmm, I removed the automatic link for "fifty shades" three times. Please ignore it.

I just got a cookbook called Fifty Shades of Chicken. Yes, really.

Books are expensive to maintain in the library setting. Secretly, librarians have been dreaming about the paperless library since long before I was born, let alone before I became a librarian myself. Electronic information sources will never be totally intuitive--ever--so actual humans will...

"Yuppy, know thyself." I am one, so yes, I know one. At what age does the y in yuppy have to be dropped?

This What's the biggest snowperson you ever made?

Librarian to the rescue. A little fancy searching and: It's the Shulchan Aruch (shool-CHAHN ah-ROOCH; the ch is pronounced like Bach). It isn't the Talmud, but it's a later code of law. The set you have there isn't complete.

Slightly belated Happy Birthday!

Most people have an aversion to textbooks. It's quite healthy, in fact. Try it on some other kinds of books and see if the symptoms manifest.

Technically, what you're talking about is a dash. A hyphen joins two words; a dash separates phrases. Your sentence should be punctuated like this: In my eyes a hyphen will anchor--make the thought tidier--the sentence. However, that's very awkward. A verb and its object shouldn't be...

Belated Happy Birthday.

It's a cookbook. Or, it's an announcement about how life could function on other planets, not about how we've caught it doing so.

Like all too many men, the smiling Mr. McCrum doesn't understand that it isn't the size, it's how you use it. If the piece is compelling, we'll be willing to spend a long time with something that big. He's really just complaining about bad versus good, worthwhile versus monotonous, awkward, or...

Belated Happy Birthday wishes.

Thanks. Since posting that question, I've seen a TV production with Dustin Hoffman that I think brought out some of the amusement you're talking about, especially with Charley and Bernard.

A quick Googling indicates that Jack Kerouac wrote On the Road while he lived in Ozone Park. Whoaaa--better not assign that in the local high school.