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March 12, 2022 by libroshombre
Carl Sagan is certainly missed; apart from his glowing cosmological credentials and general brilliance, he was insightful while maintaining his …
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Category: book banning, books, comics, education, libraries, public libraries, reading, reading brain, school librarians, school libraries
| Tags: Alaska Library Association, Carl Sagan, Fred Laswell, lianhuanhua, Lu Xun, New English Canaan, Puritans, Snuffy Smith, Thomas Morton, Ukraine
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March 12, 2022 by libroshombre
The shutdown of major league baseball made a recent New Yorker cartoon by Roz Chast poignant. Chast is a …
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Category: comics, humor, jokes, sports
| Tags: Bang Finish, Ernie Bushmiller, gags, George Swanson, hendiatris, Nancy, Roz Chast, Rule of Three, tricolon, Yogi Berra
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February 5, 2018 by libroshombre
Today’s word, pneumooultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, came to my attention from A.Word.A.Day – “the most welcome mass email in cyberspace,” according to …
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Category: comics, icons, Uncategorized, words
| Tags: Anu Garg, calaboose, Charles Dana, Guys Read, mort walker, Nero Wolfe, pneumooultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
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September 14, 2016 by libroshombre
John Wayne once said, “I’ve loved reading all my life,” and on that score soul mates. However, I’m especially …
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Category: comics, reading, Uncategorized
| Tags: booklists, Guys Read, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, John Wayne, Mental Floss, Mother of All Booklists, Oscar Wilde, Vaselina
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December 13, 2015 by libroshombre
Many of us feel strongly about the newspaper’s daily comics. Personally, I’ve cherished the inventive diversions comic strips supplied during …
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Category: comics, humor, laughter, library humor, Puns, Uncategorized
| Tags: comic strips, humor, libraries, six chix
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July 3, 2014 by libroshombre
“The Wells Fargo wagon is a-coming” theme from “The Music Man” always resounds in the background as I drive home …
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Category: comics, health, memory, reading, reading well
| Tags: alzheimer's, carl barks, comics, donald duck, health, memory, reading, reading well