The Clerk Manifesto

  You might be surprised after all my elephant poems yesterday to find a very different song and video here, this one about there being a lo...

  I have been composing short poems about elephants today. They are inspired by the video clips I have been making of an elephant in the lib...

  While I don't like the fake leftist politics of In Service Day, where Inclusivity and Equity are grave issues worthy of millions of co...

  Today I was at what I presume will be my last In Service Day for the library. I have a medium long history of writing about them in this s...

I love pelicans, but, far from any ocean, I haven't seen one for many years. Below I outlandishly make do, and my pelican comes with a s...

  This is the greatest thing you will see on the Internet this year, maybe even in your whole life, unless you've been reading... Clerkm...

  It is certainly not most books, indeed it is the rare book that one picks up, starts reading, and in a few paragraphs, absolutely knows: I...

  There might be some kind of secret wisdom here: The morning looked promising, so my lovely wife and I raced off to go raspberry picking. I...

Because I have so many video generators and picture generators at my disposal, and because these tools are powerful, fascinating, expensive,...

  On my way to do some shelving in non fiction I walked by a display of books about voting and elections. We have a rather important electio...

  One day, a year or two or three ago, a man started coming to my library. At first he talked to me a lot. His parent died and left behind a...

  I write a blog post every day. Or I pretend to in a way that causes a blog post to appear here every single morning. And because my reader...

  A lady calls the library and I answer. "Do you offer fax services?" Whoa whoa whoa. Do we offer fax services ? I don't know ...

  I like wisdom as much as the next sage. And though my following is perhaps not as large as Jesus or The Buddha, I still scatter my preciou...

  I have been working for days on this video, although it might be more of a prototype for future, more polished versions of the same video....

  I know almost nothing about Grammerly other than that it has invaded much of my Internet. Whether I am writing an email to a deranged acqu...

  Most of the questions I am fielding today at the front desk of the library concern voting. People are chomping at the bit to vote, and we ...

  Some of my first experiments with AI photography had to do with imagined cities. And though those pictures are likely from only two or thr...

  Whether it be ten percent paranoid or ninety percent paranoid, it has always been my impression that when my manager schedules me with a d...

After yesterday's rather wounded account of library work, one might not expect today's frothy music video, but I am in no great cont...