Blatherskite

Foolish gibberish

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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: Random

Just random crap. Foolish gibberish.

  • What’s going on

    Did you hear about the Turkish broadcaster? Who addressed Obama in blackface? WTF! Clearly he has no concept of the history of race relations in the U.S. THAT was a BIG no no. Amazon gets a BIG GIANT FAIL.  You can follow the mob at twitter search’s  #amazonfail search. The story got picked up by…

  • What’s Going On

    Snow in April for us. Hurray for Progress! A fun story about finding a message in a bottle from a hundred years ago. LOL. A part of me wants to say, “good for them!” This is absolutely horrific. My good thoughts are with the people of Italy. I am so pleased with Obama. He’s doing…

  • What’s going on

    Ghost Twittering? It doesn’t surprise me. Reading articles like this makes me thankful that Bush is no longer our President. Spokane residents smuggle dishwashing detergent from Idaho. Did the Google cameras capture the image of a Victorian ghost? It is so refreshing to have a president that we can be proud of. Amazing what can…

  • On motherhood

    I picked up this book today called,  “the Mommy Myth.” I’ve already devoured almost 50 pages of it! It’s really good, and it kind of confirms some of the reasons I’ve had for not having kids. Reasons I didn’t even really understand until now. The book’s subtitle is, “The Idealization of motherhood and how it…

  • What’s Going On

    Fascinating article about ghostwriting written by Scott Westerfield. I don’t know why, but I thought this was amusing. Come to think of it, I don’t really know why I care. This is an interesting website about an early photo of Lincoln. You have got to be kidding me. This is interesting.. I still need to…