Category Archives: art

  1. Xylariums, Razors, and Pogo Sticks

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    July 24, 2025 by libroshombre

                The poet John Dryden wrote, “Words are but pictures of our thoughts,” and a couple of new ones – …
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    Category: art, books, comic strips, comics, exercise, libraries, nature, philosophy, wood, words, xsports | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

  2. Banana Peels, White Wings, and Moby Dick

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    March 12, 2022 by libroshombre

                Eric Hoffer, the American longshoreman philosopher, noticed that “Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which …
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    Category: art, books, classics, fruit, illustrations, illustrators, librarians, libraries, plants, public libraries, reference librarians, trash | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

  3. Doodah, Play-Doh, and Art

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    April 28, 2019 by libroshombre

    Here are three art-related questions for you involving music, sculpture, and painting: are smells and paint-by-number paintings really art, and …
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    Category: art, libraries, music, race, racism, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , ,

  4. Jackrabbits, Pecans, and Colophons

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    March 28, 2019 by libroshombre

    Reading in the newspaper about Dubai having “the largest artificial tree in the world” harkened me back to the first …
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    Category: art, libraries, libraries and librarians, library catalogs, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , ,

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