I love and I hate the public library
I love it because I can read books for free. I hate it because I always check out too many and it's overwhelming. My goal is to read every Pulitzer winner from 1980-2009 this summer. I got a library card yesterday with that in mind,just pulitzer winners on my list,well I only get two Pulitzers(Norman Mailer's Executioners song and John Kennedy Toole's Confederacy of Dunces) and six other books. SIX! And The Executioners song is over one thousand pages.
Does anyone else have this problem. Having a huge appetite and a small stomach?
A child born blind doesn't know they're blind until someone tells them.
Plus the libraries around here smell like illiteracy since they're so seldomly used.
it's sad but true. most of the time when i walk into the downtown library it's a bunch of kids running circles around the dvds and music cds, or screwing around on myspace on the public computers.
also, illiteracy smells bad 
^^truth
Also, the libraries around here carry mostly Danielle Steel and Stephen King books mainly because both authors pump out so many of them that they fill an entire, shitty library.
I love the library. Especially college libraries. Not everyone has the insane amount of time I have being unemployed. I usually toggle my days between the library and book stores. It has been my experience that unless you are doing a research paper, only check out one book at a time. It may be a hassle having to continually return to the library, but what else are we going to spend our time with.
Help the cause of socialism and use the public library.
"For I know that all things have their price especially when they are advertised as being free."
- Bukowski
Help the cause of socialism and use the public library.
I'm also unemployed and do the same thing. Hanging out in libraries and bookstores. It's better than vegging out in front of the tv I guess. I should be job hunting but fuck it.
A child born blind doesn't know they're blind until someone tells them.
I was at a library today after work to make it to our Portland meetup chat. Halfway through, a hooker sat at my table. She had short shorts...well, more like a slightly wide denim belt, and a gold lame purse. It was kinda cool. Then, five minutes after she left, this homeless guy wandered in looking like he'd fallen into the fountain outside...only...there is no fountain outside. So I have no idea how he got so soaked.
If hookers were smart they'd hang out at libraries or comic shops. Comic shops would be even better because those people are more likely to have cash. Talk about an untapped market as far as johns go.
A child born blind doesn't know they're blind until someone tells them.
do you think a nerd is gonna go for a blow job or the new issue of Ultimate X-Men?
it's a dead market for hookers.
Yeah, technically a comic store is an "untapped" market for hookers as well.
Plus the libraries around here smell like illiteracy since they're so seldomly used.
What does illiteracy smell like?
"I thought I had mono once for an entire year. Turns out I was just really bored."
Wayne Campbell
Thanks for giving me my first laugh out loud of the day... that's hilarious.
"I thought I had mono once for an entire year. Turns out I was just really bored."
Wayne Campbell
Plus the libraries around here smell like illiteracy since they're so seldomly used.
What does illiteracy smell like?
strangely enough, wet dog and moth balls.
i admire your restraint. my answer would have been a lot more offensive.
...you are the smell expert, after all...
HA. touche'...
It took six "preview comment"s before I got it reworded to a completely harmless, beige answer.
It took six "preview comment"s before I got it reworded to a completely harmless, beige answer.
shoulda gone with your gut.
illiteracy and it's stank deserve more attention than beige will draw. 
It took six "preview comment"s before I got it reworded to a completely harmless, beige answer.
why?
Did you think he was saying you were illiterate or something and would know what it smelt like?
It didn't come off that way to me at all.
During the quarter, I basically live in the library.
And I hate hate hate the smell of Subway sammich in the library.
It's more offensive than other food smell. I don't know why.
The Catmother of all Worldwide Cats
It took six "preview comment"s before I got it reworded to a completely harmless, beige answer.
why?
Did you think he was saying you were illiterate or something and would know what it smelt like?
It didn't come off that way to me at all.
haha. no, I didn't take his comment that way.
I didn't want my comment to rub someone the wrong way, but then again, this is the cult and I've come to find that rubbing someone the wrong way is kind of the point. So from now on, no more edits!
Yeah, less editing and more rubbing!
Are you the prophet they spoke of, Sir, who would make all our lives better?
I swore off libraries because I tend to lose books that don't belong to me (unless they belong to a friend).... and if I'm going to end up having to pay for a book, I'd rather pay for it and get to keep it via amazon.
Plus the libraries around here smell like illiteracy since they're so seldomly used.