Cryptids come and go in the library. The Book Wyrm. Purple Paper Eater. Magazine Guy. But none is more mysterious than THE MOTHMAN. All this week we celebrate the Mothman with programming to bring you closer to the Sacred Flame.
Twice a year mankind is forced to reckon with balance. The day and the night meet in perfect unison as the sun sits right over the equator. Summer ends and everything falls into autumn. The trees feel it and drop their leaves. Animals begin prepping their dens with winter shutters and aluminum siding backed by pink fluffy insulation. Everyone waits for darkness to fall.
A newsletter for the Banned Library’s birthday! The Banned Library opened many years ago. Some say it sprang forth fully formed from the head of a god, but those people are confusing the library with the Greek goddess Athena. No, we were spilled from a drunken bottle of whiskey onto a bar and soaked up by a rag and onto the internet in September 2010. Long shot from where we are now. Staff didn't even have smartphones when we started.
The library newsletter includes movie and book recommendations, upcoming children’s and reference events, and calls for revolution!
Credit: Marvel comics
Fall is approaching! Children are getting back in their forced labor camps, the squirrels are digging up the yard, and the leaves are waiting to fall off the trees, turn brown, and decay into the soil. It is a time for the end of thriving life and the slow decline into the heartbreak of frozen grief. May August end and September birth a new, colder hell.
Hell of a week getting back into the swing of things, let me tell you. Right away we went from rising with the sun in Italy and finding beautiful images to share to squinting into the sunrise and spotting a leaf and saying, "That'll do." Hope springs eternal that the relaxed mind can continue, but sometimes that shit just lives outside of your natural life.
Over the last week I have been traveling around Italy, from Rome to Milan and up a bit into Switzerland's Lake Lugano. My god how easy it is to get around and how helpful and well dressed everyone seems to be. Of course, this close to the Assumption of Mary, most everyone was taking a vacation. Rome and Milan especially were full of empty shops and closed shutters as everyone ran from the heat of the city.
Ah the time of the year when everyone is tired of the hot weather, the smoke is thick in the sky, and the children are beginning to get restless. They have been free for months and are comfortable with that freedom. Time to take it away and prepare them for the capitalist system they were born into.
The library wishes to thank everyone who participated in Summer Reading this year. With only a few weeks until school starts, we ask that whoever stole the stapler bring it back and no questions will be asked.
Boat trip! Follow Odysseus and his crew of fuckwits as they wander around the Mediterranean for a bit meeting interesting people and dying in gruesome ways while back home a bunch of guys are eating Odysseus's food, trying to marry his wife, and plotting to kill his kid. This movie has everything including ear splitting rumbling sounds that will make you wonder "what did he say?"
The library swim team is gearing up for another relay this weekend. Join us as we charge across the river against teams from the Parks Department, Sanitation, and whatever happens in that big grey building downtown.
The library is in the middle of Summer Reading and reviewing movies like The Furious!
The library remembers the best librarian on television and talks movies and upcoming programs
The library weekly upload of things going on in the library and library related library things. Library.
This week we review a great book about depression and a life growing up with wild animals as well as finding out who's the master and if virtual storytime will be a thing.
The library gives updates, a review of M3gan 2.0, and one of the oral histories from the collection.
The library talks The Hollow Man, Under Siege, and catches everyone up on what’s going on behind the stacks.
This week the library talks about some movies we watched including Hokum, Mortal Kombat II, and Sheep Detectives and thinks about the nature of death and parking issues.
This week's story time will be a tale old as time to help young children remember to obey their parents. It's Bloody Bones and Rawhead time!
The library aggressively launches LAIbrary programs and help as well as the normal weekly announcements.