Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Category: Books, Music, Art, Movies

That’s entertainment.

  • The Mountain by Heartless Bastards

    I happened upon this band when I searched our library’s catalog for “banjo music” so that I could get inspired to learn to play. I thought I needed to know about a band named “Heartless Bastards” so I checked out the CD “The Mountain.” I fell in love with this song immediately.  I just moved…

  • Plinky Prompt: recent reads

    Plinky asks, “What have you been reading lately?” Funny you should ask, Plinky! Because I am currently in a dystopian novel reading frenzy right now. I am doing a presentation on the genre next week and there are a couple of novels I would like to finish up before the presentation. Today I will finish “The…

  • On New Wave Music in the Eighties

    “If the singer is German, it’s new wave, unless it’s The Scorpions. If you think the singer is German, but he’s really not, then that’s an extraordinarily rarefied level of new wave, and probably means a kind of new-wave satori has been reached.” – Rob Sheffield in Talking to Girls About Duran Duran. I am so enjoying…

  • Plinky Prompt: Name your top 5 writers

    Favorite Writers 1. Cormic McCarthy 2. Jess Walters 3. Ian Mcewan 4. Margarat Atwood 5. Jennifer Egan So are we talking people who are still alive? Cause that’s what popped into my mind when I wrote those. There so, so many authors that are my favorites. I could never write down just five. Here are…

  • Love this album

    I have to thank Catastrophysicist for commenting on this blog post. I downloaded the album Visions and it has provided me with hours and hours of happy listening. There are many songs on the album that are great, but at the moment I am particularity in love with the song, Genesis.