Gloriously cranky words from the gloriously cranky Maurice Sendak. He’ll be missed.

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Wait you have to have a masters degree

I was doing a QandANJ session and the person on the end wanted to know about being a librarian. S/he asked what you needed to be a librarian. I said a undergraduate degree and a masters in library science. Then s/he said to shelve books you needed a freaking masters degree, and then said that anyone could sit in front of a computer and answer reference questions.

soupsoup:

via Brett Smiley at New York Mag

bethfantaskey:

Between now and January 6, you can download Jessica’s Guide to Dating on the Dark Side free for your e-reader.  Happy Holidays!  :-)

paid2see:

A protester handed President Barack Obama a note while shaking hands along a rope line in New Hampshire today.  AP photographer Charlie Dharapak smartly zoomed in so you can read the note for yourself. 

barackobama:

Ready, set, go.

barackobama:

Ready, set, go.

faboomama:

Awesome Princess Bride painting By Drake Brodahl - alivenotdead.com

faboomama:

Awesome Princess Bride painting By Drake Brodahl - alivenotdead.com

familyoftheyear:

hey guys…

first of all, we would like to thank everyone who came out this week to our shows at the satellite and troubadour. you guys are lovely.

unfortunately after the troubadour show, someone stole our rented van with ALL our gear in it. instruments, merch, amps… everything’s gone. we’d…

get a grip

Parent, you can not sign up your seven year old for a practice SAT exam. She’s sitting in the corner, biting her fingers. Let her be 7.

keeping track of dates is important

“Can I sign my daughter up for the SAT practice exam?” “I’m sorry, the test is today.” “So you’re saying I can’t sign her up?”

some concepts are confusing

Yes, our catalog computers will always go to the library homepage. That’s kind of their job.

interneting is hard!

Lady, I’ve explained that you can get to any website you want, just put some new address in at the address bar. Why is that hard?

parental perspective required

Yes, I’m ever so sure your second grader is a scientific genius. But right now, he’s sitting at the table, eating his boogers. GROSS!

so unreasonable.

I know. It is completely unreasonable of me to not allow you to download any beta software to our computers. I am, in fact, a big jerk.

a course you should probably pay for.

You want to be “certified in anger management training” but don’t want to actually pay for the training? Yeah, I can’t help you.