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Danes Love Dwarfs (and you can too)

Tomorrow evening, July 30th from 7-9pm at my beloved (air-conditioned) Ladybug Coffeehouse in my cherished St. Johns neighborhood, I’ve invited a lice-infested, boil-covered Danish Dwarf and her life of squalor in early 18th Century Russia and Denmark to visit. They’ll be coming there in the form of a novel called The Tsar’s Dwarf, which blossomed [...]

07.29.2009 See the rest →

SLL: Once Upon a Storybook Site

by CamiKaos

Once upon a time there lived a girl with very dark hair, blue eyes, tattoos and a snarky personality who loved boots more than almost anything. But if there was one thing the girl loved more than her beautiful boots it was her podcast… did I mention she had a podcast? One day, a Friday [...]

05.17.2009 See the rest →

A reader’s blog – An Embarrassment of Riches

by Dieselboi

Did you know Multnomah County Library has a blog? You probably did and I’m late to the game. I honestly don’t use my local library as much as I should. When Neighborhood Notes hooked me up to An Embarrassment of Riches, I was overjoyed, especially since the first post I read turned me on to [...]

01.25.2009 See the rest → 2 comments

Reading a Book While Driving

by Motor Jeffries

Here is a photo I took last night on my drive home (note: I blacked out the face of the driver). I snapped the shot at a red light at SE 115th Avenue and Division.It’s hard to see, but the driver is reading a book. She kept the book on her steering wheel until [...]

09.17.2008 See the rest → 7 comments

Calling Nerds who Like Books: Neal Stephenson in PDX

by Lyza Danger Gardner

For those of you who like your novels witty, visionary and geekoriffic, you might want to know that cyperpunk maestro Neal Stephenson will be at the Bagdad Theater on Sept. 16. The author of the seminal and comic sui generis Snow Crash and the Baroque Cycle series will be talking about (and signing copies of) [...]

09.03.2008 See the rest → 3 comments

PORN

by Dieselboi

Have you ever been on MAX reading the WWeek or The Portland Mercury and get to the back pages and quickly close the paper so it doesn’t appear you are looking at PORN? The pages in question are those advertising dating and escort services with bright color pictures displaying everything but the kitchen sink. Heck, [...]

06.26.2008 See the rest → 7 comments