The Clerk Manifesto

Dear Hubbard Street Dance: Lately I have been vying against artistic greatness. For one thing it's hardly ever there when it...

I was reading a kids book, Destiny, Rewritten , and just sort of starting to like it when we hit a crossroads. A book of poems in this...

The third in our Presidential Candidate interviews: MSM:  As a Presidential Candidate you are generally expected to weigh in on ...

I know I occasionally make a fuss about being a prophet of the gods, but this pipeline to deities is not usually one I talk about in ...

MSM:   You have been on the record as saying that you were told by God to run for President? F. Calypso:   Well, yes, that is so. I...

My computer at home freezes up constantly and becomes increasingly unreliable. I am growing to fear it a little, not wanting to get s...

As I write I can see the swirls of a blizzard out the back windows of my library. The night is black, and white snow, illuminated alo...

My library system has always had a "Problem Branch". You can easily determine which branch this is by asking the employees of ...

MSM: What made you decide to run for President? F. Calypso: I felt that my needs as a voter weren't being met by the cu...

Among our library regulars is a man who seems to have his share of problems. He carries around a collection of dirty bags filled with ...

For much of the life of my blog I had seven, or twelve readers, and the terribl e paucity of it pained me. I gnashed my teeth. I won...

There was a recent endeavor to resolve a long standing issue with one of the smaller departments of our library. It was sensibly a...

Perhaps I tempted the fates when I recently wrote about my disappointments with ice and snow. Perhaps the trickster god of ice heard me...

  I just overheard a librarian talking excitedly about a TV show, which is maybe a bad sign to begin with. She was referring to a sm...

I try not to discuss politics here. This is not due to my fear of offending, my lack of clarity, or any absence of interest on my part...

My dear funny people, This is a message to everyone because everyone, everywhere, sometimes wants to be funny. Even I like to som...

Every day that I work at the library I work until closing time. I am well acquainted with closing time's technicalities and pecul...

My wife and I missed the open mike night at The Riverview Cafe for a museum event tonight, but at its heart it was all the same. ...

Alas, I fear for my health. Perhaps clean living will save me. Perhaps all that healthful, frigid air I have been breathing on my l...

Knowing that so many school children in Southern climates use clerkmanifesto as their source for reports on what it's like to liv...