Category Archives: leathery bat brains

a black night wind was up, and the library faced it steadily

Every fixture rattled.  Librarians wearing black velvet led users downstairs.  The chimney roared.  The gramaphone stood open, a record on it–”the arm with the needle bent back like a cobra ready to strike,” said Eliza as she passed through the lounge with a tray.  Then the music started, users and librarians came together and the […]

please leave

Please leave your wet shoes in a paper sack in the bathroom, and leave crumbs for the ants on the sofa in the reading room.  Can I have an apple?  The apple you left in the stacks a fortnight ago?  Thank you.  I love apples.
You don’t have to wake up, but you have to please […]

get a first life: work, reproduce, perish

Get a First Life advises:
“Fornicate using your actual genitals.”

and asks:
“Are five senses enough?”

get a first life via Steven (via Brian)

the Internet ate my friends

Supervised information conduction.  I access information in my sleep.  I become the membrane between everything I know and everything I don’t know.  Do I have less friends now than I did 20 years ago?  In the comic  book version of my life, I am you.  In the movie version of your life, I am an […]

crude discoveries

Someday–if it hasn’t happened already–you will step off the path, toss your eyeglasses into the fire, and allow your heart to guide you to the place where you will make crude discoveries. Someday–if it hasn’t happened already–you will realize that you are a part of a transformation that has no beginning and no ending. […]

how to want to work

Working is hard. First, take off your shirt. Some people are surprised to learn just how much a bare chest can achieve. Don’t be one of those people. Take off your shirt and start working. If you want to work in a library then you will need to carry and […]

W is for Wiki

We arrived, touched by fluorescent light and the promise of free booze–evangelists of electronic collaboration and the power to revert to a previous state. That’s right. Our ways are screw-up proof. The Bride of Frankenstein–our calling card. This is who we are–self-created monsters coming into this room, this town, animated by […]

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!

polyptoton

Take your liberties and pleasures @ your library. Librarians without pity, grace or defect greet you. Libidinous users patronizing the shadows of bad ideas greet you. Musty corners, suspicious smells. Leathery bat wings. The screen flickers, darkens. Information exists. Our activities are optional. Our progress is suspect. […]

color palette generator talk backwards satan

You enter the image URL, degraeve. com generates a nifty cool weirdly great color palette. *presto*
Hey, Satan, remember the 80’s backmasking scare? Now at talkbackwards.com we can hear everything backwards–cybernetically.