93 posts tagged “humor”

Yes, this message was left on our answering machine a couple weeks ago. I thought I would share.

Apparently we have "one of those numbers" Since we get a LOT of wrong numbers--and they never seem to listen to the outgoing message which says "You've reached Tim and Trent..."

Thanks to elementary school friend Doug Doll for the thirty year old picture of me...I believe I have grown up a little a bit

WELL.....maybe grown up is the wrong phrase...

Here's a cover image...my Trentie is thanked as a producer in Jill Sobule's newest CD...yes, we are music moguls! And you really should buy one (when they're available to the PUBLIC ;-) not only do you get a great CD of Jill's funny, toe-tappin' music...but you also get Trent's name spelled out for you in the liner notes!

I have been a weeding (of books) fool at work. TRYING to make it through the shelves and shelves in storage of 100's...philosophy, psychology, parapsychology, and self-help...I make sure the books are in the right place, that we don't have too many copies of titles...and that we don't have outdated or dangerous info. I also mend books as I go.

I noticed on this most recent pass through of the self-helpish area that we had a lot of former best sellers down there. So I thought I would bring them back to the attention of our patrons with a blog entry:

http://daytonmetrolibrary.blogspot.com/2009/02/formerly-bestselling-now-awaiting-your.html

Now I can see if they circulate more :-)

Yes, I AM a Librarian to the core...

Oh, that is RICH! My favorite CNN news story of the day...

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/02/11/bill-ayers-has-an-idea-for-palin/#more-39731

Bill Ayers, the "terrorist" who Sarah Palin said Obama was palling around with, sent Sarah a note after the election suggesting they do a talk show together called "Pallin Around with Sarah and Bill"

I would watch everyday!

On a completely unrealted note...I am speechless at how fundamentally juvenile and stupid Congressional Republicans are. Eight years they spend ramming their legislation down our throats and look where it's gotten us. They are asked to help draft this bailout legislation...and like a kick-ball-loving five year old whose asked to play dodgeball instead of kickball--they want to take their ball and go home (except for Spector and the intelligent ladies from Maine)...I do hope that when the midterm elections roll around every parent in America remembers that one of the sticking points for Republicans was funding TO BUILD NEW SCHOOLS.

Yes, they don't want to give the states money for the building of new schools...600,000,000,000 and counting for a baseless war is OK...but an additional 10,000,000,000 to educate our kids in buildings that aren't falling down, Republicans say NO.

Lovely.

So last month we were at the Used book store & Trent picked up two movies I had never heard of (but they were on his "list" to see). A couple days later he said pick one to watch & I picked "Weight of Water" not knowing anything much about it. It was good--a fiction with some non-fiction stuck in the middle. The non-fiction was a double murder in a small island community called Smuttynose (hehe). Good movie. Sean Penn playing a decidedly different character to Harvey Milk.

For Christmas, Trent's older brother sent me a book I had tried to get the last two times we were up. "They Lynched Jim Cullen" by Dena Winslow. I became obsessed (a little) about it since Jim Cullen lived (in the 1870's) in the house across the street from the house where Trent grew up. (He has a fun ghost story about peering in the window when the family across the street was away). So the upshot is the only lynching to occur in all of the New England states happened in little Presque Isle...to a guy who (murdered two people) lived in Mapleton (well, Castle Hill actually).

SO, this morning I'm reading the book which starts with a chapter about lynchings in general...and about what lynchings have in common...and New England justice--and it mentioned the Smuttynose murders. Seems they occured March 6th 1873...and were reported in the Presque Isle newspaper March 16th...and Jim Cullen was lynched April 30th--so the lack of justice in Smuttynose indirectly led to Jim Cullen's hanging.

And we just happened to watch that movie (made in 2001) right before I started reading this book...woooo!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

I'm working on a presentation on Readers' Advisory for science fiction and fantasy and horror for our library (that's where we teach people how to tell you what to read ;-) and I came across this image...I've seen it before on the icanhascheezeburger website...but it just cracks me up and I want to share--with that rare person who knows Sci Fi and loves a funny cat picture...Is that you?

What does a hard working Governor do when there's a threat of natural disaster in her state? http://alaskareport.com/news19/x61915_redoubt_volcano.htm

She goes to Washington to hob nob! http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/01/29/palin-come-washington-hopes-talk-obama/ To go to the Alfalfa Club Dinner...and make sure she gets all over the news media so she'll have something to complain about when she isn't keeping an eye on waskely Russia!

When will this woman realize that she is nothing more than the punchline to a very bad joke? 

What does a hard working Governor do when there's a threat of natural disaster in her state? http://alaskareport.com/news19/x61915_redoubt_volcano.htm

She goes to Washington to hob nob! http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/01/29/palin-come-washington-hopes-talk-obama/ To go to the Alfalfa Club Dinner...and make sure she gets all over the news media so she'll have something to complain about when she isn't keeping an eye on waskely Russia!

When will this woman realize that she is nothing more than the punchline to a very bad joke? 

Oops, I missed this blog entry that I wrote when it came up on DML's website. It highlights a fun (and instructional) website...from which you can print off a beautiful and funny (and instructional) calendar. I've done so for the past three years. now you can too!

Just visit: http://daytonmetrolibrary.blogspot.com/2009/01/wild-weeds-at-our-national-parks.html and follow the link to the National Parks Service website. Learn about invasive alien plants (doesn't that sound funny enough?) and  print the calendar.

This year's theme is fake magazine covers (last year was movie posters...but that's all in the blog at DML...)