The Clerk Manifesto

  When one writes a blog post every day for over eleven years one occasionally finds oneself starting at the blank page, er, screen, at elev...

  We have been going to a lot of Christmas Markets this year. Sometimes it's the festive spirit I like. Sometimes it's the unique en...

  After two days of posting pictures here of almost entirely legendary white men (yes, I'm aware) posing for promotional photographs for...

  What started as a fun lark during a drunken poker game with Bob and Charlie has turned into a stampede of famous celebrities, both alive a...

During a recent night of poker with some of my friends, many of whom are dead, we drank a lot of Calvados, which I blame Bob Dylan for, as h...

  Not for the first time a library patron came to the front desk with a small stack of what looked like insignificant documents and asked me...

  The first time, actually just last week, that I brought out one of my past blog posts that was written on exactly the same day, but in a d...

  The Internet loves a list. After all, what does an Internet list offer? I have created a list to answer this very question! The ten functi...

  People leave a lot of stuff behind at the library I work at. While occasionally there will be something bizarrely interesting, like the ma...

Naturally people see my glamorous tourist videos of Clerkmanifestoland and wonder: "But hey, how do I get to Clerkmanifestoland?" ...

  Someone was teaching a class at my library and needed to talk to the librarian who set it up. I was pretty sure that librarian was in the ...

  Because the outside book return portion of our automated check in machine has been broken for several days, I was wheeling an empty cart o...

  I have decided to sometimes include here, or feature, past posts. I have written over 5,000 and it's not like anyone memorized them. S...

  Recently, in showing you a couple of my latest Clerkmanifestoland videos, I referenced all the hugging. There's more hugging here, but...

  As promised, warned?, I am here again with picture doorways to more of my video shorts. I think my title says a lot about the vibe I am mo...

  For my birthday, a little over a month ago, I got an unlimited month of access to one of my favorite video generators. It produces five to...

  I wandered over to my library's little bookstore to see what was up in there. A junky little book of inspirational sayings was on disp...

  Man alive, I was really going. I was five paragraphs in to the kind of saucy, trenchant, irreverent, inspired, and insightful essay that o...

  Wow did I have a lot of co-workers today! I don't know why. All I can say is that sometimes I'm basically alone in my giant librar...

  I don't particularly like making library cards for people. There's certainly nothing terrible about it all that I can point to. Wh...