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Premiere of Bitch Magazine’s Lending Library!

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Back in August of 2008, myself and a few other members of the Portland Radical Reference Collective came together to organize and catalog the 800+ titles that comprised Bitch Magazine’s lending library. After some researching, we created a thesaurus and assigned subjects to each book, then had a cataloguing party with a slew of [...]

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Economic stimulus package aka American Recovery and Reinvestment Act [ARRA] aka LIBRARIES NEED MONEY; please help them receive it

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Okay, so we are all aware of the Economic Stimulus Package meant to deliver the US of A from its current state of economic peril. The formal name of the pending bill is the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and libraries could potentially benefit greatly from it. Sadly, they could also get shafted. [...]

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The Graphic Novel – Raise it up!

Friday, November 7, 2008

OPB’s Think Out Loud recently [re?]aired The Rise of the Graphic Novel.  During the show they discuss the difference between comics and the graphic novel, which, IMHO, there really isn’t one.  One of the guests echoed my sentiments when he said, “graphic novels are just comics with spines.”  And that is book spine, of course.  [...]

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I apologize.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

But I have to…

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Cindy Sherman and the Library Lolita

Friday, October 3, 2008

Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Still #13 aka ‘The Librarian’ has sold for $902,500 at a Christie’s auction!  Wowza.  The photographs from Sherman’s Film Stills series are largely inspired by B-movies, film noir, and films from the 50s and 60s.
Here is Sherman in the library, looking deceptively wholesome, I think.  She looks very young [Sherman was [...]

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And so it begins.

Monday, May 5, 2008

In March I attended Portland State University’s Manga Mania talk, presented by Dark Horse Comics‘ manga editor and guru, Carl Horn. I arrived early to an empty room but it was not long before the room was packed with faculty members, students, cosplayers, manga fans, and even a few dispossessed souls that roam the [...]

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