From the book One Hundred and One Sandwiches come these delightful recipes, fit for little girls and delicate older ladies (and possibly some delicate gentlemen and/or elves would wish to join the tea party). Nasturtium One dozen nasturtium blossoms, two tablespoonfuls of mayonnaise dressing. Spread white bread with the mayonnaise, and place each blossom overlapping […]
Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You Can, Too!, Garant & Lennon. Non-Fiction. This is a ruthlessly practical guide to selling screenplays to Hollywood studios. It also provides appalling and entertaining insight into what is required of a writer in order to make a […]
I’ve been stewing for some time about the mis-use of the term “digital” to mean something other than “represented as a series of ones and zeros.” Or even “able to express only discrete values.” In this usage, CDs are not “digital,” despite the indisputable fact that they bear digital data. DVDs may include, as a […]
Invisible Things, Davidson. Yes. Follows The Explosionist. Picks up near where its predecessor left off, and is another just fine YA novel. This one is more openly setting up for a follow-up book, which, if history is any guide, should be showing up in a year or so.
Fat Vampire: A Never Coming of Age Story, Rex. No. This came highly recommended, and has plenty of positive traits (two in particular: it’s mechanically sound, an incorrect “whomever” notwithstanding; and it has largely believable characterization), but it has two (to me) fatal flaws: it has way too much explanation, and it strikes me as […]
I occasionally mean to make reporting on the email spam we are rejecting a more regular feature, but then I occasionally mean to do a lot of things that never happen. So, here is another installment of a category I have just dubbed “Spiced Ham.” (note: according to Hormel, it is mere speculation that SPAM […]
A patron came in the library for the first time, looking for information on a particular career, including magazine articles. I walked her through the process of getting to our magazine article database and searching for appropriate articles, then the same for our career search databases, then showed her an especially good online sources of […]