Librarian Kitty :P

Jane Austen + Nelly Furtado

I know I'm not the only Jane Austen fan here...we're a bunch of librarians, after all.

This music video made me smile. :)

A challenge us literary-types can get into

Find an earlier footnote, win a fancy dinner

Though in all honesty, I think I'm too lazy for this....

Like Oscars, but for books!

In case anyone wasn't up at 7:00 this morning to watch the live webcast from Philadelphia (because they have enough sense to get their sleep and just wait for the list to be uploaded), here are the 2008 winners of all the children's and young adult literature awards!

For the slightly less interested, the "big winners" were...

[drumroll, please]

Newbery Medal: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz, published by Candlewick;

Caldecott Medal: The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick, published by Scholastic;

Michael L. Printz Award: The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean, published by HarperTempest;

...and just because I love Mo:

Theodor Seuss Geisel Award: There is a Bird on Your Head by Mo Willems, published by Hyperion.

With all the award winners and honor books, I've got quite the reading list to tackle! Let me know if you want to discuss any of the titles!

Movin' up in the world

Not me, sadly....

Here's a TV appearance by the White Rabbits. On Letterman, no less.

BBC, where is the love?

So today the BBC is reporting on a 50-car pile up caused by fog in Florida.

There was no mention in the BBC news of the 100-car pile up in Wisconsin.

Is it because Wisconsin is hard to spell? Or because we don't have sexy Spring Break shenanigans?

I'm Number 12!

As CeCe says, finally.

your mom swashes your clothes

DUDE, anti-laundry?! Sign me up! Where the hell was this when we were in grad school?

This is so wrong, but somehow so right

29 (The other tests are equally addicting, if, like me, you love such useless things)

Also, in case anyone missed the top 25 songs of 2007, here they are, distilled into 1 five minute chunk of awesomeness. Happy New Year!