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Vampire Party

Surprise, Surprise, Mr. Sparks!

Now that NIGHTS IN RODANTHE is a movie as well as a book, the author is gaining more and more attention.  Learn ten things you don't know about Nicholas Sparks.

Clever

I was forced to create a YouTube account just so I could post this short video.  Curse your cleverness, Bog!

-mh

Homecoming @ your library II

Homecoming @ your library

Opera

Ok, I know everybody but me is sick of opera posts.  This is the last one, I promise.  The library owns Opera 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera.  Not surprisingly, it has never been checked out.  In the introduction by Placido Domingo, he says, "Operagoing at its best is about the rekindling of the soul, about having an open window into what makes us human."  Well, now.

I found this blog that has some nifty photos and commentary on some amazing looking modern productions.  The header takes forever to load and is most definitely not worth it, so carry on and explore without it. -mh

Sunnydale High School Library

This early drawing of Sunnydale High School Library changed significantly by the time Buffy the Vampire Slayer premiered on television.

"If we can focus, keep discipline, and not have quite as many mysterious deaths, Sunnydale is going to rule!"

This similar, even-better library is in Campbell House, Toronto. 

I'd Guess Modern.

And, I'd be wrong.  This is a Heironymus Bosch painting done at the beginning of the Northern Renaissance, 1450-1516.  One of the most interesting discussions of his work is on the Google Earth Community.  Scroll down so you can see the pictures.  They are weird even by my standards, and you can look at them for a long time.

By the way, I wish I had a dollar for every great artist who was buried in a pauper's grave. Bosch was one of them.  -mh

Burning Question

I want to know.  Can vampires reproduce?  How can the undead have live sperm?

Tim A. points out that in Van Helsing, the dead can have children with the help of electricity, but they are kind of ugly looking.

Of course to Stephenie Meyer, these questions are moot.  Of COURSE, vampires can reproduce.  Love conquers all.

I'm just now watching the first season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but so far things do not look good for Buffy and Angel.  Joss Whedon may write crazy fantasy, but at least his world makes some kind of logical sense.

Doesn't it?

Right.  

How would I know?  -mh

A Little Privacy, Please.

"High-school seniors already fretting about grades and test scores now have another worry: Will their Facebook or MySpace pages count against them in college admissions?

A new survey of 500 top colleges found that 10% of admissions officers acknowledged looking at social-networking sites to evaluate applicants. Of those colleges making use of the online information, 38% said that what they saw 'negatively affected' their views of the applicant" . . . . more.