Category Archives: ghosts

podcast: sound of the stacks

Holy Synesthesia! Sound of an Image is a psychedelic application for the Mac that translates picture into music. Quote from Tim Omernick, creator of Sound of an Image:
A very, very long time ago…
Before The Beatles, before Mozart, even before Pythagoras, there was a caveman named Ogg. One day, Ogg the caveman picked up […]

delicate tracks made by bits of energy following a subatomic collision

Through the wet windowpane the librarians watch the hurrying blackness. Tomorrow is coming. Tomorrow is wear pajamas to work and use a machine to make an excuse day.  When tomorrow comes be gentle and kind.  Stop hating yourself.  Square your shoulders and be a librarian.

we will feel better in the library

We will feel better in the library when the red paint dries, and the cool water flows again.  Everyone press your forehead against the water cooler, hold my hand and later we will have a cup of tea.  I know there is a book in the stacks we should read together — ‘A Treatise On […]

how to make friends and influence people

There’s too much distance between my heart and my words. Long ago connections with friends, so effortless and determined, are gone. The words come like brittle spasms, ugly moves through a room I don’t recognize or belong in. My heart cringes, several rooms away, feeling each awkward step.

haunted distance education remote viewing party line

is the established term for asynchronous, non-local collaborative teaching/learning in an acursed, virtual fun space.  Let everybody know.

my haunted computer

The noise in the library is the noise of my haunted computer. It is powered by 1 billion ghosts. It materializes and dematerializes. The name of my computer is Confusion.
Thanks to Zuzu for ongoing brilliance and musical wow!

comic book

Tonight we play a game. If you can say good-bye without being strip searched, you win. The thermostat is off. The library is empty and dark. Car lights move over the ceiling.

Keep Fit, Survive

Today is Wednesday. Today has a first name and a last name. Today is the day that begins the 1001 Posts About Libraries. The 1001 Posts Without Illustrations. Without Sound. This post is the number 1 good post in the series of posts. It is not bitter, nor is […]

Dark Fairy Tale

Once Upon A Time there was an Outline of a Happy Ending, a Hollywood Dream, a Narcoleptic Duck, and an Absent Father. The End.
Thanks DaDaiErDai!

take a trip

I take my hands off the wheel, close my eyes, and pretend I am blowing out birthday candles.
photo courtesy of the notorious Bill T.