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Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit”:
Kurt’s riff inspirations? 🤷‍♀️
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Us:

I adore you LMAO

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and inflation is through the roof. But at least now the Library of Congress isn't lending any antique glass flutes to Lizzo.

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She’s absolutely gorgeous BUT that second photo is from 2002 when she was 49 🤭

Oh she wrote HOW TO SURVIVE A HORROR STORY last year

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

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Was it while you had a plethora of airline booze bottles for the panel? 🤭🍸

Librarians, assemble! I'm putting together my roster of authors to feature on the podcast over the summer. What suggestions do you have for authors who have books coming out this summer / fall?

It’s such a laughably bad argument for the war on Iran to say “The people there want regime change.”

I want regime change in the US, and I 100% do not want the US to be bombed. F off with garbage arguments.

Preach it, lady

Unpopular opinion from your friendly collection management librarian:

there are, in fact, too many books

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

It’s amazing that not a single moment of self reflection happens. Sigh.

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It’s shocking, frankly.

Dang!!

Also? That Pepto-pink getup doesn’t exactly scream “siren” to me.

Where I go to get my questions answered:
birth to age 10: Mom
age 10 to 17: the encyclopedia
17 to 30ish: basic internet search
30s: internet forums and blogs
40-45: Wikipedia
now: Reddit posts from 2023 or older

I have a bootleg CD found on eBay about 25 years ago!

At Booklist I had the wrong number printed on my biz card for like 3 years before anyone noticed 🤭🤭

“I don’t know how you can read fiction”

I don’t know how you can’t! Free movies in ya head! I’m casting, directing and on cinematography in this bih! Everythin getting funded. Maximum budget! All practical effects! Actors can get recast mid production! 12 hrs of footage, directors cut!!

Robin.

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

Oh yeah I don’t even like saying Aunt Whatsherface because it’s AUNTIE Whatsherface no matter how old I am 😄

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.