Saturday, March 24th, 2007
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 […]
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
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 […]
Monday, January 22nd, 2007
Get a First Life advises:
“Fornicate using your actual genitals.”
and asks:
“Are five senses enough?”
get a first life via Steven (via Brian)
Wednesday, July 5th, 2006
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 […]
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. […]
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
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 […]
Saturday, March 25th, 2006
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 […]
Monday, February 27th, 2006
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!
Friday, February 17th, 2006
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. […]
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
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.