And I didn't even have a fine going (yet)

[slipjig3]

An unusually good haul at Crandall Public Library, all new or almost-new acquisitions:

1) A huge book on hearth and open-fire cooking: In the vain hopes that we can actually talk the in-laws into cranking up the fireplace this winter.
2) Stupid White Men: Somebody's been Bogarting this for months. I read one chapter at work, and already I know I'll soon be joining the American Civil Liberties Union. My ass needs a solid kicking once in a while.
3) A definitive biography of Jethro Tull: I haven't been a major fan in a decade or so, but there's still that latent streak in me. Now my credibility is shot to hell.
4) Amelie on DVD: They've had it for a while, but I've never been able to simultaneously coordinate (a) it being on the shelf and (b) me not having $20 + in fines until now. Woohoo!
5) Nosferatu, also on DVD: I find that watching silent European films from the 10's and 20's helps me remain pompous and irritating.

Of course, as of 9 a.m., the videotapes of The Juniper Tree and Belle de Jour I got last week will be overdue, which means I'll be coughing $2 a day per tape for movies that I haven't even watched. Again. Gads, my life really is a downward spiral. Sigh...

Comments

[paganmommy.livejournal.com]

Lucky man! The library in town sucks dirty rocks, and I have no patience in waiting. Your credibility is still fine by me, but shhhhhhh ::looking around quickly::: don't tell anybody. Cooking on a fire is pretty darned easy once you get the hang of it. Once I got used to it I had trouble switching to the Mawdurn conveenyawnces in da ceety.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

The Lake George library's pretty tiny, actually; luckily, Crandall Library in Glens Falls is a half a block from work, and it's tres groovy.

Open-fire cooking may be easy, but only if you have the proper accoutrements. Realizing that the one tea kettle in the house is aluminum with a plastic handle tends to deflate the dream a little.

[paganmommy.livejournal.com]

Cast iron is your friend dear man! I am fortunate that I was able to save my great-gramma's cast iron items when my mother moved to California, but AJ Wright tends to have them Cheap, or you can find them at Hardware store fairly cheap also. Well seasoned, and you have zee bestest fire cookin' tools on earth :)
About the books: Just let me stew in silence. Get it? Stew? ... LOLOLOL.. I crack me up.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

With any luck, there's some cast iron hiding in storage somewhere; since Kristi's dad is a hunter, and her granddad was an avid cook, it's not an unreasonable possibility.

Ohhhh, don't get started on the puns; I've pun-warred with some of the best. I'm remebering a battle in college over sex-related bird puns that lasted far longer than it probably should have.

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

Funny, I just finished reading _Stupid White Men_. I wish I had more time to be angry.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Personally, I'm making time.

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

Good point. Maybe I should just forget about computer science and become a public policy expert and do stuff that actually might influence the world for the better...

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Nah. Stick with the computer work; you're in a prime position to be subversive.

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

See, though, with the kind of work I do, it's either never going to get used in the real world or used for evil. If I actually come up with some new way to make software better, it'll be used to make missile-launching software better.