35 years is too long to work at The Bee. Especially when there's the beckoning life of an, er, "communications consultant," which so far as I know mostly involves living off your wife's stock portfolio and blogging.
I saw the new Tower schedule for next week. Same movies. But the Varsity in Davis starts Volver on Friday! Luckily, I work at UC Davis so I'll be out there anyway.
I like to know that other people care about the state of the Bee. It's nice to know that I am not alone shaking my fist and muttering "what the fuck, really, WHAT THE FUCK" when I get to the Metro and Scene sections.
I can't believe the varsity is opening volver before tower! people worry that arco makes us look like a cow town but i would argue that opening the new almodovar movie about three months late is what really makes us look like a cow town. moo!
has anyone seen notes on a scandal? i say thumbs down on little children. it's not as sexy as the posters make it look.
I came by the Tower at 11 in the morning to see Notes on a Scandal, I just love Judi Dench she's so.....old....and...alive, and they were closed! I guess they just care about the community!
Just a comment to Smitty about back issues of the Bee. If you posess a Sacramento Public Library card you can access a database through the library called Newsbank and access back issues of the Sac Bee as well as a large number of other major papers, for free! So I guess I just proved my parents wrong, an MLIS degree is totally a good idea. Jana.
That Newsbank thingy is online. You can access Bee articles from 1984 up until yesterday from home. There's also access to a whole bunch of other newspapers. You log in via the library website. If you want to look at really old newspapers (on microfilm) from all over California, the california history room (part of the state library) is the place to go. Whenever I'm researching stuff there I end up wasting time looking at old comics pages and advertisements and stuff.
you can use it to read every single one of r.e. graswich's columns! or, if you have even more time, you could read every column where mike dunne mentions lemongrass. zing!
Aaargh... the whole microfilm newspaper thing is the bane of my existence (ok, one of many banes of my existence, along with led zeppelin, astrology, hummers etc etc etc). The microfilm is now disintegrating faster than the original newspapers did AND it's the size of a fucking 1 cent postage stamp.
The only upside of this is that I now get to spend the equivalent of a car payment buying up old comic sections that got dumped by libraries years ago.
OMF, that's so aquarian of you to say that! I read that aquarians are intractable and contrary. and old-timey.
by the way, happy birthday next week! I will photoshop your head somewhere into that picture. I think smiller will laugh when he finds out how long I spent trying to photoshop the cucumber castle album cover into that photo unsuccessfully.
It's amazing how few people are aware of the fantastic online services offered for free by libraries. I can't believe someone would assume that to research newspapers you would have to go to a physical library. Libraries have moved into the 21st century! With a free library card you can access an amazing amount of high quality info: newpaper databases, magazine and academic journals databases, business and company reports, statistics, etc. Contra Costa County even has all the Rosetta Stone language databases online for free! Despite this, the general public are satisfied with the mediocrity of the open web while libraries spend their tax dollars on superior information services that don't get used (I'll admit they're not superior for every type of info, but certainly for most types of research). What's up with that? Frankly the idea that the Internet has replaced libraries is really a pretty ignorant one. And ps: Sac public's database selection is a bit weak. I recommend an SF library card, it's amazing what they have online. And you just need to be a CA resident, not an SF resident. And pps: Some libraries are now offering online library card sign-ups.
35 years is too long to work at The Bee. Especially when there's the beckoning life of an, er, "communications consultant," which so far as I know mostly involves living off your wife's stock portfolio and blogging.
ReplyDeleteI saw the new Tower schedule for next week. Same movies. But the Varsity in Davis starts Volver on Friday! Luckily, I work at UC Davis so I'll be out there anyway.
ReplyDeleteDid they offer a buyout to Bob Sylva and his mullet?
ReplyDeleteI like to know that other people care about the state of the Bee. It's nice to know that I am not alone shaking my fist and muttering "what the fuck, really, WHAT THE FUCK" when I get to the Metro and Scene sections.
ReplyDeleteWell, considering his wife is 20 years his junior, I doubt he'll be living off her stock portfolio.
ReplyDeleteBye bye, Bobby Bahama!
ReplyDeleteI figured he had a new gig lined up as a mouthpiece for the Sheriff's department or something. Shows what I know.
I can't believe the varsity is opening volver before tower! people worry that arco makes us look like a cow town but i would argue that opening the new almodovar movie about three months late is what really makes us look like a cow town. moo!
ReplyDeletehas anyone seen notes on a scandal? i say thumbs down on little children. it's not as sexy as the posters make it look.
I came by the Tower at 11 in the morning to see Notes on a Scandal, I just love Judi Dench she's so.....old....and...alive, and they were closed! I guess they just care about the community!
ReplyDeleteJust a comment to Smitty about back issues of the Bee. If you posess a Sacramento Public Library card you can access a database through the library called Newsbank and access back issues of the Sac Bee as well as a large number of other major papers, for free!
ReplyDeleteSo I guess I just proved my parents wrong, an MLIS degree is totally a good idea.
Jana.
That Newsbank thingy is online. You can access Bee articles from 1984 up until yesterday from home. There's also access to a whole bunch of other newspapers. You log in via the library website.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to look at really old newspapers (on microfilm) from all over California, the california history room (part of the state library) is the place to go. Whenever I'm researching stuff there I end up wasting time looking at old comics pages and advertisements and stuff.
you can use it to read every single one of r.e. graswich's columns! or, if you have even more time, you could read every column where mike dunne mentions lemongrass. zing!
ReplyDeleteAaargh... the whole microfilm newspaper thing is the bane of my existence (ok, one of many banes of my existence, along with led zeppelin, astrology, hummers etc etc etc). The microfilm is now disintegrating faster than the original newspapers did AND it's the size of a fucking 1 cent postage stamp.
ReplyDeleteThe only upside of this is that I now get to spend the equivalent of a car payment buying up old comic sections that got dumped by libraries years ago.
-omf
rest of my life, rest of my life....
ReplyDeleteOMF, that's so aquarian of you to say that! I read that aquarians are intractable and contrary. and old-timey.
ReplyDeleteby the way, happy birthday next week! I will photoshop your head somewhere into that picture. I think smiller will laugh when he finds out how long I spent trying to photoshop the cucumber castle album cover into that photo unsuccessfully.
It's amazing how few people are aware of the fantastic online services offered for free by libraries. I can't believe someone would assume that to research newspapers you would have to go to a physical library. Libraries have moved into the 21st century! With a free library card you can access an amazing amount of high quality info: newpaper databases, magazine and academic journals databases, business and company reports, statistics, etc. Contra Costa County even has all the Rosetta Stone language databases online for free! Despite this, the general public are satisfied with the mediocrity of the open web while libraries spend their tax dollars on superior information services that don't get used (I'll admit they're not superior for every type of info, but certainly for most types of research). What's up with that? Frankly the idea that the Internet has replaced libraries is really a pretty ignorant one.
ReplyDeleteAnd ps: Sac public's database selection is a bit weak. I recommend an SF library card, it's amazing what they have online. And you just need to be a CA resident, not an SF resident.
And pps: Some libraries are now offering online library card sign-ups.
-JD