The Clerk Manifesto

I have been joking with, lampooning to, and being lightly nonsensical for the edification of library patrons for nearly 25 years now a...

You could make a reasonable case that I am being paranoid. Maybe I am, maybe I am not, but it all is, at least, based on evidence. And...

Dear Staff, As you know our library has always striven to maintain genre integrity to the best of our ability. This has not alway...

Golf season has started up again here. And because I have a regular view on amateur golfers I find myself idly watching them on occas...

The governmental institution that rules over my library system has grown ever stronger and more malignant over the past decade. Ho...

I work at a library. I like the library patrons nearly all the time. But there are, nevertheless, a few... hundred... thousand... commo...

Biking season has returned to The Twin Cities. Not that it exactly left. There are bikes with big fat tires nowadays, and there are p...

I have authored a new word. Use it as often as you like:  Condeluded. It is the best new word of the Century. When the august jou...

I saw a cat today. Wait, let's start over: Like you I don't know any celebrities. Celebrities are so manifold that I c...

The Spring weather was going to cool a bit so disparate masses of air collided over my cities and created wind. Lots of wind, all nigh...

Perhaps our lives should be measured in half years to get more out of them. How old can I manage to get by measure of all these thi...

Due to the recent success of my blogpost "Joe Biden Announces" I wanted to make sure I came back to the Internet with a new ...

Dear High Profile Big Time Super Powerful Literary Agent!: I have a manuscript of unpublished non fiction essays. They are a lot...

It has come to our attention that at precisely 2:17 p.m., on Thursday afternoon, Joe Biden will be announcing his candidacy for the Pr...

I have to confess that I spend a bit too much time on the Internet. It's that feeling that there is some quality content just the t...

Forget the daffodils. Who cares about the budding trees and the dance of warm weather. Green is lovely, but I have seen it be...

Dear Publisher,  You'd better sit down. I'm about to offer you an unprecedented opportunity. As you will see from the ...

In my previous two posts I explained how The Man picked me out of a group of co-workers idling about, while I was eating some...

When my boss came up to me on a recent afternoon and said "Aren't you supposed to be shelving?" I was mad at him as a...

The Man messes with us all in his different ways. Maybe The Man hasn't messed with you for ages, you think, or maybe you are Th...