The Clerk Manifesto

I feel that today's post features a classic piece of early AI technology. It was produced by me more or less (metaphorically) yelling in...

  Late at night on the automated check in machine, working yet again an evening at my library, I conjured, in my mind, an astounding tale of...

  I have been working with zombies. Artistically, not actually. This is not like me. I am more a ghosts and goblins and all the pretty glowi...

  While technically, as you read this, I am back home from a brief passage from being 59 to being sixty, all magically conducted by a river ...

  This introduction will remain largely the same for the next few days. Luckily it's super entertaining! Because I will be away for a se...

This introduction will remain largely the same for the next few days. Luckily it's super entertaining! Because I will be away for a seve...

  This introduction will remain largely the same for the next few days. Luckily it's super entertaining! Because I will be away for a se...

This introduction will remain largely the same for the next few days. Luckily it's super entertaining! Because I will be away for a seve...

As the night settles on the library, in the backroom, I start to quiet a little in my spirit. This is largely possible because in half an ho...

  There is no refuting it; once you get to enough birthdays the numbers start to feel a little random. There are just so many of them! And w...

  As promised. Threatened? Warned? Suggested? Today is the second set of lyrics for songs pertaining to a long held vision of clerkmanifesto...

  Well, I mean, it's not poetry, exactly. I wouldn't make you read poetry! I mean, not unless it rhymes. It's okay if it rhymes,...

  Every Sunday is picture day at clerkmanifesto!  It's not? But but, I'm so touched you noticed. But wow, it totally could be pictur...

  My music videos can take so long to put together that I was tempted to eschew comment here, and merely place the link, and thus the video,...

  My masterpiece? Well, maybe I should walk that back a little. I worked forever on this music video, or, in layman's terms, two days. A...

Some of you may know that there is a much-talked-about election coming up in my country. But some of you are malignant foreign bots crawling...

  As I wind down my library career (that sounds too fancy. How about "my library sojourn"?) I find that our staff suddenly consist...

  I am on the phones for the first hour my library is open on Indigenous Peoples' Day. I receive 879 phone calls asking if we are open t...

  Monday is busy at clerkmanifesto! Over the weekend readers rest their eyes and turn their attention to simpler fair like 18th Century Fren...

  "Time crawls, but it accumulates." Said the nearly sixty year old man. "That's me!" Cried the nearly sixty year ol...