Halloween already?

Time to put out the Christmas decorations on store shelves everywhere - it's HALLOWEEN!

woooooooooooo

Spooky.

Today I am posting from the spirit realm. (imagine me saying this last part in a tight extreme close-up) Perhaps I will return to this mortal coil tomorrow, in the candy-bloated flesh, with an all time king hell sugar-induced headache.

- the spirit of Roman

Those journal cuts really catch up to you after a while

I rarely post about my line of work, but today I read about how the University of Pennsylvania libraries just cancelled over 2000 journal subscriptions. At once. Ouch.

Though Penn's situation is notable because of its scale, it is not at all unique. One of the final things I did at my old job at Binghamton was decide which journals to cancel. We had a major cancellation that year. At my current job, we've taken a slightly different approach, cutting a little bit each year. And I could very well have been faced with that massive cancellation myself, since I interviewed for a couple of jobs at Penn in years past.

There's a lot I could say about the squeeze we feel as the years go by. But that would be boring. Why not read about it on the flashy, interesting, punchy Create Change? I know some of you are current/future scholars, so this is an issue that affects you just as much as it affects me. If you really want to get the soapbox oration from me about this issue, corner me next time you see me and I'll be glad to bend your ear.

Note for those of you who don't care, because you work in IT or insurance or something: don't bring this up with me or any librarian unless you want a long impassioned stump speech. Because we're mad as hell, and, well, you know the rest.

Montreal is a very silly place to watch sports

Those crazy Montreallers. They've taken the former mascot of their now-defunct baseball team (Youppi!) and made him into the mascot for their once-dominant hockey team. What a weird town.

Youppi! looks kind of like an orange version of Big Bird with a much shorter beak. And he can easily be identified by his Montreal related sports clothes. I mean, who else wears those?

No blog like a bad blog

I am incredibly bad at this blogging thing, aren't I? I feel like I should be saying more, or at least saying more interesting things. But, this being a blog, I guess you'll have to settle for ranting and raving and foaming at the mouth:

PUT TOM DE LAY IN JAIL
OMG EVERYBODY THINKS IM A DORK
SNAKES ON A PLANE!
STAR TREK
FURRIES
CRAP
LEGALIZE MARKER HUFFING
SCHWARZENEGGER IN '08 - AMEND IT NOW, M$@&**@ERS!

There, that's better. That ought to get me noticed.

Wow, the natural world

Hey, I've continued exploring the landscape of western New York (with my new lady-friend, who will undoubtedly kill me just because I mentioned her). Here are some photos from Letchworth State Park. It was a fantastic day last Saturday.


AHHH, THE GREAT OUTDOORS!

Man, what a dork.