your mom swashes your clothes

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

regime dress...wtf?

Don't even ask me how I got to this web catalog. Anyway, they are advertising a pretty ugly wool dress for $248 and the catalog copy reads: "What do you get when you cross a sexy librarian with disciplinarian?" And that copy, it made me mad.

Also, the website is running a ton of annoying flash. So, screw your sustainable design philosphy, Nau, you obviously hate librarians and, fyi, each of your pages takes about five billion seconds to load because of all that crappy flash.

Also, welcome back, blog!

Librarians r in ur resort, havin der confurinces

Check out where I get to be today for the VLA conference:

The Homestead

I went outside to look around and there was some yuppie on his cellphone telling a friend how he just finished his spa treatment and was waiting for his newly wedded wife (they were on their honeymoon) to finish hers.

Other than the vacationing yuppies and rich old people, the place is full of women wearing sensible shoes and bearded men in bow-ties.

Best Onion Article Ever

14 American Apparel Models Freed in Daring Midnight Raid

now i really wish i had landed that prison library job

Fug girls blogging for New York Magazine. Best line: "prison is the new black." Girl, you know I live at that address.

Recycled underwear=more library jobs!

Here's a bit on the relationship between underwear and literacy, which of course translates into a link between underwear and librarians. Why didn't the NYT report that in the coolness article?

Librarians: Too Sexy for Our Jobs?

In light of our collective job seeking (with a few instances of gainful employment) and interest in fashion--and other aspects of pop culture--this article seemed apropos, especially considering the librarian connection (also check out this page... need to click "next" twice to get to the librarian)

The shoe and hair suggestions at the end of the article do seem to require us to conform to old stereotypes though. Booooring!

But are the boring clothes better than getting sued? (Actually, the librarian in question seems to lack self-awareness, but it was an interesting chain of events.)