I’m here in beautiful Toronto. It’s my first time since high school, so it’s my first really experiencing this city. Is it cold? Duh. But holy cow does this place a-shimmer with Christmas lights. First[…]
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Spring 2020 – The upcoming books that have me aquiver
Hello, everyone! I hope you had a wonderful Turkey Day (in our case, it was a goose day, since turkey is dry and joyless but goose is mouthwateringly tender). Before the holiday, I had the[…]
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I made a meme, please steal it.
Hi! I’m just hopping on to say that I made a little meme. This little meme right here. Should it go viral, please let me know, since this represents how I feel aptly right now.
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Guess what, okay I’ll just tell you, I’m in a game!
A new game is out right now from a new group called Grown Men Games. It’s called Space War: In Space!! (strange fact: as far as I can tell, the Chicago Manual of Style and[…]
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Library non-troversy of the week…
Okay, look, there’s not much to say about this situation which sees artists pulling their display from a library because the library objected to sexual material in publicly-viewable spaces. In this week of actual library[…]
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Really, Macmillan…really?
I mean, really? REALLY? It’s not like I have anything to say that my library colleagues have already expressed elsewhere on the Internet, but really? You came to this conclusion after you spoke to library[…]
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Comics readers are snubbing superheroes, and I’m sad (with no disrespect to Raina Telgemeier)
“Evolve or die!” This is true for comics as it is any other medium. According to a recent article by Forbes, data is showing that, for pretty much the first time since the 10-Cent Plague,[…]
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We’re finally getting a BONE animated series, because f*ck yeah
I want to send my heartfelt congratulations to Jeff Smith and his team at Cartoon Books, and also to YOU, dear member of the public, because Bone will doubtlessly be an amazing animated experience. In[…]
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The JOKER movie is pretentious, gross, and tone-deaf, but it’s still a well-made film.
Against my better judgement, since the trailers just made it look like a noxious movie-watching experience, I decided to see Joker yesterday. What I saw is a movie that is an insult to the mentally[…]
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A reminder that Banned Books Week also belongs to racists and Nazis, whether we like it or not
I would like to take a moment from relishing in the deliciousness of the orange buffoon’s presidency possibly, hopefully, finally crumbling, to remind myself and everyone else that Banned Books Week is for everyone, even[…]
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