Comments on: Where The Naked People Are

By: Brian Herzog

Brian Herzog — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:48:22 +0000

That’s funny… when I describe you to people, I almost always say “you know, my friend Kate, the one-eyed bilingual folk singer-turned-day trader.” But the books you’re getting rid of don’t count; only those you buy. And as for Jez, I think the real question is this: what aren’t you nocturnal?

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:32:36 +0000

Well, here’s a list of books we’ve recently deleted. You tell me if they are indicative me.

1. So many Greek-English lexicons of the New and Old Testament that I could make an excellent bonfire.
2. A book entitled “opportunities in music careers” from 1966.
3. A “Cyclopedia of Education” from.. well, a long time ago. (reading that title always jumps my brain into the word “cyclops” which makes for entertaining mental images)
4. You know, I better just end this list. I just don’t have any good ones this time around. Unless you want to go check how your Nasdaq stocks were doing a few decades ago….

I think you’ll find that my cat, Jez, and I are growing to resemble each other far more than my library’s reference book collection will ever resemble me. She’s such a sneaky little loafer who becomes Demon Kitty at night when I’m trying to go to sleep because I have to get up at 6am. Ricocheting around the apartment, including on and off the bed, is not conducive to sleep. Why are cats nocturnal?

By: Brian Herzog

Brian Herzog — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:01:55 +0000

You know how people say that pet owners and their pets grow to resemble each other over time? I wonder if that's true of librarians and their library's collection. So, Kate, what else has your library got tucked away that might be indicative of you? Hmm... By the way, thanks for the spelling correction - sorry about that. I guess I spent too much time working on my search engine ranking and not enough time on my fact-checking.

By: Kate

Kate — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:45:12 +0000

Thanks for linking to me. I’m glad my reference collection has such power to amuse. We find so many bizarre items in it. Sadly, none are as exciting as that one book.

Btw, it’s Muskingum. I’m not quite sure why everyone spells it wrong but you are definitely not the first.

Also, congrats on your top Google result showing! Nice!