Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Month: February 2006

  • The vegetarian store

    So Raf and I have been hearing about this ABC Vegetarian outlet advertised on the Air America affiliate here and were stoked to find out about it. We are no longer vegetarians, but while living in Santa Cruz got used to visiting the many local vegetarian-friendly grocery stores (and there are LOTS of them there).…

  • Why?

    Why are neocons such assholes? Why? Why do they go trolling around the web, looking for liberal websites and post comments just to be divisive? Dothey try to engage people in an interesting and lively discourse? No. They are assholes. In response to a couple of messages I recieved on this blog: I may not…

  • More things they don’t teach you in library school

    Let me start this off by saying that the library in which I work is a downtown, city-center branch and we have quite a large amount of homeless people who come in and use our library. I assume that this is common in many public libraries. The library welcomes everyone in the community to use…

  • Door and window

    Here’s another shot of that old yellow house from yesterday.

  • Porn Police

    Oh. My. God.: Two uniformed men strolled into the main room of the Little Falls library in Bethesda one day last week and demanded the attention of all patrons using the computers. Then they made their announcement: The viewing of Internet pornography was forbidden. The men looked stern and wore baseball caps emblazoned with the…