tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30132689Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:47:09 +0000cookingBaltimoreNew Yorkmereviewsmy kidskids in generalmoviesREADposterbookschildrens bookspoliticsgardenmusicnatureartmaking thingsbook coversphotosjobtravelaudio booksMr. LibrarianfugAdvilCalendarthings in our housefamilyhistoryinternetreligionvideoweirdthings that piss me offpoetry Fridayother peoples kidssciencehumorfriendsjust suck on ice cubes in 4/4 time if you're too cool to claphttp://yourneighborhoodlibrarian.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (YNL)Blogger624125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30132689.post-8835955801015596233Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:37:00 +00002012-01-10T21:11:07.810-05:00My friend Laurel has so many good ideas she has to dole them out like Communion wafers. "Body of Christ," she'll murmur. "You should write a picture book biography of Thor Heyerdahl." Next person walks up. "Sanguinis Christi. You need to open a gelato stand in Collier Heights." "Mother of God," she said to me one gusty December night getting hammered on tequila on my porch. "You're going to http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iqeO/~3/F_0Bjy8CKXs/your-neighborhood-librarian-goes-out-40.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (YNL)4http://yourneighborhoodlibrarian.blogspot.com/2012/01/your-neighborhood-librarian-goes-out-40.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30132689.post-8844313994778433151Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:43:00 +00002011-12-26T21:11:52.163-05:00AdvilCalendar I know, I know. Right about now you are thinking in terms of a water-only diet. A detox so comprehensive that not only will your liver be restored to a childlike state, but your skin will glow, your hair will begin to grow out of your head as transparent floss like the hair of angels, your feelings toward all mankind will be tolerant, your actions motivated by kindness and unmarred by ego. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iqeO/~3/X7hr8MWunHI/all-drinks-index-to-advil-calendar-2010.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (YNL)3http://yourneighborhoodlibrarian.blogspot.com/2011/12/all-drinks-index-to-advil-calendar-2010.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30132689.post-1026179091698021443Sun, 25 Dec 2011 12:02:00 +00002011-12-25T07:02:44.834-05:00AdvilCalendarIT's Christmas Day and what's in YOUR stocking? If it ain't a prince, an astronaut, Tommy Lee Jones, a secret agent and a Jedi... YOU'RE DOIN IT WRONG Two-Face and his dual girlfriends, Sugar and Spice Thanks for sticking with me this long and dark month, this season of insanity, this winter of our discontent and lost items and near misses. Today is Christmas, and those of us who have to http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iqeO/~3/YWIHV0nuDYk/advil-calendar-2011-december-25.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (YNL)0http://yourneighborhoodlibrarian.blogspot.com/2011/12/advil-calendar-2011-december-25.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30132689.post-1177077815413892155Sat, 24 Dec 2011 05:40:00 +00002011-12-24T00:40:40.700-05:00AdvilCalendarbookscookingDECEMBER 24 - ROCK IT OUT The funny thing about all this is I'm really more of a beer drinker. I'll be drinking beer at the Browns game today. They're playing at M and T Bank Stadium, so I guess you'd have to call it the Ravens game, but my poor husband is a Browns fan so we're humoring him. Do you know how long it's been since any Cleveland team has won a championship? Here's a hint - you http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iqeO/~3/jjJ6oHOiNSc/advil-calendar-2011-one-cut-hole-in-box.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (YNL)0http://yourneighborhoodlibrarian.blogspot.com/2011/12/advil-calendar-2011-one-cut-hole-in-box.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30132689.post-1280134579788044160Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:30:00 +00002011-12-23T09:40:26.095-05:00AdvilCalendarbookscookingDO YOU REMEMBER THE TWENTY-THIRD OF DECEMBER "Localivorous" YES I JUST MADE THAT UP. Shut up. It's the adjectival form of "locavore." I am working very hard on this stuff so give me... ooh look there's a squirrel on the deck! Ok, so I'm not working that hard. I'm mostly hanging out at the coffee shop, pecking out jokes and trivia in between gossipy visits with the neighborhood retired people, http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iqeO/~3/JZUV2DtyoAA/advil-calendar-2011-christmas-eve-eve.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (YNL)1http://yourneighborhoodlibrarian.blogspot.com/2011/12/advil-calendar-2011-christmas-eve-eve.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30132689.post-8814069813046385896Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:30:00 +00002011-12-22T08:46:43.578-05:00AdvilCalendarGiven all the hardship I encountered finding Hanukkah cocktails (still haven't recovered from the Eight Nights, Eight Reasons to get Shitfaced Hanukkah Marathon post), I thought finding a suitable cocktail for Winter Solstice might be its own kind of difficult. I was prepared to adapt some Halloweeny thing made with black vodka into a drink for this, the darkest day of the year. But I was wrong http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iqeO/~3/AgWP7PStwbc/advil-calendar-2011-winter-solstice.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (YNL)0http://yourneighborhoodlibrarian.blogspot.com/2011/12/advil-calendar-2011-winter-solstice.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30132689.post-6720276133113878149Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:30:00 +00002011-12-23T00:51:58.355-05:00AdvilCalendarbookscookingAll right, I was wrong. At the end of yesterday's MARATHON HANUKKAH POST I bragged that today I was going to offend the pagans. But no. The solstice is tomorrow. Today it's... 21 12 2011: A Day to Offend All Fanboys Because, yeah, you can imagine Vader gets pretty chapped under that helmet. I started this month off with a trip to Target with my friend Heather. Two of Heather's six-year-oldhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iqeO/~3/h7U5CiXiXpI/advil-calendar-21-dec-2011-weird-drink.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (YNL)0http://yourneighborhoodlibrarian.blogspot.com/2011/12/advil-calendar-21-dec-2011-weird-drink.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30132689.post-4529107048062850254Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:30:00 +00002011-12-20T14:00:05.204-05:00AdvilCalendarbookscookingI am an atheist - a from-the-ground-up atheist, not a "I was raised Catholic and those guys are jerks, man!" atheist, although those people are no less atheists. It's just that their mental background noise includes a lot of Christian information. You can not believe in something and still be stuck with it, culturally. I mean, we kind of all are, here in the U.S., but I mean... Hoo boy. Why don'thttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iqeO/~3/LEQ4Puri518/advil-calendar-2011-bonus-judaism.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (YNL)2http://yourneighborhoodlibrarian.blogspot.com/2011/12/advil-calendar-2011-bonus-judaism.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30132689.post-4615330754007098783Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:00:00 +00002011-12-21T00:08:16.643-05:00AdvilCalendarcookingOH HELL OH HELL OH HELL You had this awesome idea. You were driving home from work one Friday earlier this month with the weekend stretching ahead of you and the month stretching ahead of that. You stopped at the liquor store to pick up a bottle of Goslings rum (see: December 12) and had to bring it home in a plastic bag because you were in your husband's car and he doesn't keep re-usable http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iqeO/~3/Qr__YlyXUZg/advil-calendar-2011-december-19-maple.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (YNL)2http://yourneighborhoodlibrarian.blogspot.com/2011/12/advil-calendar-2011-december-19-maple.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30132689.post-4336191035702318099Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:35:00 +00002011-12-17T10:51:25.037-05:00AdvilCalendarbookscooking S-A-TUR-DAY! NIGHT! HAVE THE IN-LAWS OVER, 'CAUSE THIS IS TOO MUCH WORK TO WASTE ON YOUR FRIENDS Get out every whisk, eggbeater, stand mixer, hand mixer, and great big bowl that you own, because it's time to ruin your kitchen making homemade eggnog! Woo hoo! Supermarket eggnog. NOT TONIGHT, BITCH. That's right. And you're not going to all this trouble just to suck down a punchbowl fullhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iqeO/~3/z---TUkxDV4/advil-calendar-2011-december-17-here-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (YNL)1http://yourneighborhoodlibrarian.blogspot.com/2011/12/advil-calendar-2011-december-17-here-it.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30132689.post-3696330926957452846Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:18:00 +00002011-12-16T09:27:08.047-05:00AdvilCalendarbookscooking (There was also a cat named Grundoon) DECEMBER 16 Ok when I was a kid I had this father who was unremittingly, automatically iconoclastic. If there was a grain, he would go against it. If you provided a beat, he would march to something else. When he was in the Air Force, he got around the base via pogo stick. He conflated J.R.R. Tolkein and Herbert Hoover, offering "A Balrog in every http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iqeO/~3/8W-cHb9N3FQ/advil-calendar-day-16-youre-mean-drunk.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (YNL)4http://yourneighborhoodlibrarian.blogspot.com/2011/12/advil-calendar-day-16-youre-mean-drunk.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30132689.post-4314538654466059113Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:00:00 +00002011-12-15T09:53:17.816-05:00AdvilCalendarbookscooking IT'S THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS AND DID YOU EVER THINK YOU WERE GOING TO MAKE IT THIS FAR? Artsy fartsy mug from ABC, only 75 bucks. Apiece. No? Well you have. Welcome to the third Thursday of Advent, also known as Saint ABC Carpet and Home Day, because at this point you are just going to stop in there after work and GET SOMETHING for that bitch sister-in-law who now says she has "way http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iqeO/~3/CUxusWjC1eI/advil-calendar-week-three-day-one-this.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (YNL)1http://yourneighborhoodlibrarian.blogspot.com/2011/12/advil-calendar-week-three-day-one-this.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30132689.post-1839247339425245597Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:43:00 +00002011-12-14T09:43:11.726-05:00AdvilCalendarbookscooking WEDNESDAY THE WHAT?TEENTH Ok here's what happened. I lost count of days, or I never counted up to begin with, or something, and I wrote this whole day thinking that Wednesday was the 13th. So... we're just going to pretend that it is. Humde dum. OMG Weird Drink Wednesday falls on the 13th of the month???!?!! We're all gonna diiiie!!! *cough* It's ok, don't get up, I'll get you a beer. No nohttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iqeO/~3/O_KSo6dQoMo/advil-calendar-2011-weird-drink.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (YNL)2http://yourneighborhoodlibrarian.blogspot.com/2011/12/advil-calendar-2011-weird-drink.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30132689.post-4456951029370812567Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:00:00 +00002011-12-13T10:12:53.421-05:00AdvilCalendarbookscooking DATELINE: DECEMBER 13 It's Taco Tuesday at Clementine, a high-quality, low-key restaurant here in Northeast Baltimore, and that's all the reason I need to proclaim Tuesdays on our calendar of slightly sloshed jetfueled merriment Local Tuesday. Clementine's chef/owner Winston Blick has a thing for making and growing stuff himself, so the main dining room at Clementine features a view into http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iqeO/~3/txK-bsIKsZk/advil-calendar-2011-tuesday-december-13.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (YNL)0http://yourneighborhoodlibrarian.blogspot.com/2011/12/advil-calendar-2011-tuesday-december-13.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30132689.post-3091361597176054489Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:30:00 +00002011-12-12T08:50:39.193-05:00AdvilCalendarbookscooking 12.12.11, or if you're feeling Continental, 12.12.11 It's Monday night, my girls' night, and here's a recipe from one of my favorite girls: Cranberry Cobbler, by Jim Meehan of PDT, as featured on GOOP, Gwyneth Paltrow's online lifestyle dogma thing Just kidding again. Although she seems to have a decent sense of humor and could therefore hang with us on Monday night, Gwyneth Paltrow http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iqeO/~3/XsennQ_sYeI/advil-calendar-2011-bad-moms-say-no-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (YNL)0http://yourneighborhoodlibrarian.blogspot.com/2011/12/advil-calendar-2011-bad-moms-say-no-to.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30132689.post-8051836976912014968Sun, 11 Dec 2011 14:00:00 +00002011-12-11T13:00:36.398-05:00AdvilCalendarbookscooking You woke up with a hangover because of that punch, didn't you, even though it was totally devoid of artificially flavors or fortified sugar syrups. Hm. You must have had kind of a lot of punch. Feeling a little sticky? This will help. ON THE ELEVENTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS: That's right. Tim Riggins with his shirt off for almost an entire movie. Still hasn't http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iqeO/~3/QfQhKJQuShc/advil-calendar-2011-sunday-december-11.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (YNL)0http://yourneighborhoodlibrarian.blogspot.com/2011/12/advil-calendar-2011-sunday-december-11.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30132689.post-7322747896931358122Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:00:00 +00002011-12-10T13:49:23.684-05:00AdvilCalendarbookscooking Is a Saturday night, and YOU might be having a party. Or you might be going to a party, like my friend Dances With Chickens, who will be attending the Drink Until You Love the Baby Jesus Party tonight (is that not the best holiday party name you've ever heard?). Dances With Chickens is currently incadrinkitated (knocked up), but that doesn't mean she is not gonna take something. I like taking ahttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iqeO/~3/ph5pTq2iTwc/advil-calendar-2011-december-ten-ten.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (YNL)0http://yourneighborhoodlibrarian.blogspot.com/2011/12/advil-calendar-2011-december-ten-ten.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30132689.post-3038083303991475838Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:30:00 +00002011-12-09T08:46:44.876-05:00AdvilCalendarbookscooking ON THE NINTH DAY OF DECEMBER Oh it has been a long week at work, hasn't it? People get extra pissy around the holidays and you are expected to just play along like usual and make believe that they're not being HIDEOUSLY UNREASONABLE and/or unbearably waffley. Plus, have you seen how people are driving?! Yikes. I know two people personally who have had the front of their cars ripped off in http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iqeO/~3/Q0_-WnE0O9Q/advil-calendar-2011-december-9-uptown.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (YNL)1http://yourneighborhoodlibrarian.blogspot.com/2011/12/advil-calendar-2011-december-9-uptown.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30132689.post-5783253397438423672Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:00:00 +00002011-12-08T09:17:26.537-05:00AdvilCalendarbookscookingBefore we get down to the second week of our drinks calendar for the silly season, a few updates: Although I am not suicidal enough to keep up with my own cocktail calendar on a daily basis, we did sample the Master of the Hounds cocktail the night of December first, and it was nice, but I think I prefer Tuaca at its simplest: 1 jigger Tuaca + juice of half a lemon, on the rocks. We also http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iqeO/~3/J3Ar_BhAKy0/whos-elfiest-of-them-all-advil-calendar.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (YNL)1http://yourneighborhoodlibrarian.blogspot.com/2011/12/whos-elfiest-of-them-all-advil-calendar.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30132689.post-4742831075921092949Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:44:00 +00002011-11-30T15:53:51.676-05:00AdvilCalendarbookscookingWhat are you looking at right now? What has been coming into your email inbox for a month or more - offers to buy the most beautiful tacky jewelry, the stinkiest holiday-themed candles, the dumbest, most stupid-ass novelty wine bottle caddies? If you were thinking about buying someone a wine bottle caddy, allow me to talk you down off that ledge. Nobody needs a wine bottle caddy. By the time http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iqeO/~3/SFlWyiceYFg/on-first-day-of-christmas-i-sure-could.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (YNL)3http://yourneighborhoodlibrarian.blogspot.com/2011/11/on-first-day-of-christmas-i-sure-could.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30132689.post-2010992835623065458Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:00:00 +00002011-03-21T13:09:30.279-04:00arttravel.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Bob, Jim & Mary playing "What's that building?", originally uploaded by your neighborhood librarian. We were just in Cleveland this weekend for a family thing. I love Cleveland, and it's not a joke. I went to college there, http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iqeO/~3/WKoACu-xPOE/you-were-up-to-your-old-tricks-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (YNL)0http://yourneighborhoodlibrarian.blogspot.com/2011/03/you-were-up-to-your-old-tricks-in.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30132689.post-5128705288280787358Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:06:00 +00002011-03-01T18:30:52.430-05:00things that piss me offbooksjobFile this one under Actually Library Related, For Once, and Not About Children's Books.And now I'm going to start a post with "Have you ever noticed...?" just like some damn comedian. Some damn lazy comedian, who always follows that phrase up with something banal. Banal and self-promoting, because the point is that everyone has noticed that the waiter who takes your order is not the one who http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iqeO/~3/Sbmd-yfe0sA/on-crap.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (YNL)6http://yourneighborhoodlibrarian.blogspot.com/2011/02/on-crap.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30132689.post-435327014604594906Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:37:00 +00002011-01-06T13:29:00.773-05:00fugREADposterHello, library lovers!Your Neighborhood Librarian is *just about* off to sunny San Diego, California to attend the American Library Association's Midwinter conference. I have an exhibits pass, a rental car, the names of several restaurants of good repute... and my kids!Yeah! Bob's going to meet us out there, so it's just me flying coast to coast with two boys under the age of ten, both of whom http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iqeO/~3/2IakSctoWW4/fug-read-poster-2011-edition.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (YNL)1http://yourneighborhoodlibrarian.blogspot.com/2011/01/fug-read-poster-2011-edition.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30132689.post-5913742837628206642Sun, 19 Dec 2010 14:44:00 +00002010-12-19T10:35:11.616-05:00AdvilCalendarcookingThis is how messed up the holidays are for everyone. I have had all four weeks of my Advil Calendar - the daily holiday calendar for grownups, showcasing a fancy or obscure liquor every day - written for weeks, and still I ended up lagging behind.Well, as an apology, let's begin with bacon.Wednesday, December 22: Four Roses Yellow Label Bourbon It's Wednesday! Time to mix something weird! Try PDThttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iqeO/~3/1eg3K3gAGow/advil-calendar-week-4.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (YNL)3http://yourneighborhoodlibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/12/advil-calendar-week-4.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30132689.post-8159264837034711165Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:14:00 +00002010-12-13T09:45:23.791-05:00AdvilCalendarcookingPhoto of the Little Italy from cocktailia.comWednesday, December 15: Cynar Weird Drink Wednesday! My favorite time of the week! This week featuring Cynar, the intense Italian liqueur with the really great label. Cynar is made from artichokes. How do they do that? I don't know. In parts of France, they dump a shot of Cynar in a demi of lager for what must be a weirdly classy boilermaker. Gonna tryhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iqeO/~3/OiwCDv_ysaI/advil-calendar-week-3.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (YNL)1http://yourneighborhoodlibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/12/advil-calendar-week-3.html