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.

Tag: Current Events

  • What’s Going On

    Freaking AMAZING photography right here. Click and be blown away. I especially like how he enhances wrinkles and pores, rather than erasing them. I read that Alexis Cohen, a young contestant from American Idol died over the weekend while crossing the street. Given past events, stories like this catch my eye. I didn’t know who…

  • What’s Going On

    Here’s something to be proud of: According to Forbes.com, Spokane is the Scam Capital of America! Yay! Welcome to Spokane! If you ain’t stealing you’ve been robbed! An interview with the person behind the ALAsecrets twitter account. Walter Cronkite and Frank McCourt died this week. I really liked them both. I am especially sad about…

  • What’s going on

    Scientists have found that cats use their purrs to manipulate humans. I found this response to the Twilight series from the Quileute tribe very interesting. I am not a student of Native American history or culture but I kind of wondered about the accuracy of Meyer’s depiction of the tribe’s stories. Actually, it has really…

  • What’s going on

    A judge temporarily halts publication on a followup to Catcher in the Rye. Interesting. A pilot dies while flying a plane from Belgium to New Jersey! It is interesting to see the protesting in Iran in our Web 2.0 global world. Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick have twins! Via a surrogate! Ed MacMahon died.…

  • What’s Going On

    David Carradine was found dead, hanging naked from his neck in his closet. How sad 😦 This is an interesting article about a study that links human laughter with other primate’s laughter and posits that laughter in primates comes from a shared ancestor. The Octomom is now saying that she has regrets. ugh. Yeah. no…