This is a conversation I've had with my wife on occasion. She's a person who has always done everything "right". Whatever privilege she has had, she's always worked hard and made the most of it. That's just who she is. Me, on the other hand, I've always worked the margins. My whole life is looking for shortcuts. On occasion it's worked spectacularly. Sometimes it hasn't worked quite that well. There have been times in my life when I've been way down. When I've had to make the choice between paying the electric bill or buying a new tire. That's something most people I associate with regularly have never had to face. So it's easy for them to judge or have contempt, like "how did you get yourself in such a position?" My wife couldn't even imagine living like that.

And as all that pertains to this issue, if I have a book that is coming due, I just go online and extend it. I'm sure there are people who don't have smartphones or computers to do that.

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Ecclesiastes 5:8

Why not just walk the shelves anyway? How would they know that you are secretly "volunteering"?

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Cry more. Walk to the library and return the fucking book.

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Elections have consequences.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

My guy!

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The man loves the bounded written word

Works for me....

I once found some weed I the little sharing library across the street from me. A little ditchy, but free.

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

I'm gonna check it out when I ride by tomorrow morning! Maybe drop off my copy of Rules For Radicals too.

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Ecclesiastes 5:8

I found this in there a couple weeks ago. I'll put it back in there tonight if you want to check it out tomorrow.



(Curious Hair would love this book.)

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

I probably would! I'm gonna find the list and see how many of the songs I love.

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Is "Seasons In The Sun" in there?

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Ecclesiastes 5:8

It's weird how that song "I Hate Myself (And Everyone Else)" doesn't even sound depressing.

Yeah, top three. I like the Jacques Brel version but I've actually never heard it in English. The original is so jaunty.

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Yup.

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

An aside: wouldn't "Girlfriend in a Coma" make a great mesothelioma lawsuit jingle?

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

List goes heavier on MOR than I would have expected: I saw Streisand, Gordon Lightfoot, and Dan Fogelberg all on there. "Brick" by Ben Folds Five was a great call, though. I was expecting "Famous Blue Raincoat" and "How To Disappear Completely."

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"I Won't Share You" for Father's Rights Attorney Jeffrey Leving can't be far behind.

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Slaughter's "Fly to the Angels" would fit in there somewhere nicely.

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

You're the misogynist who checked out the book on Josh Gibson!!!!

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

1. 'Happy Birthday To You' - Patty and Mildred Hill
2. 'The Shortest Story' - Harry Chapin
3. 'Honey' - Bobby Goldsboro
4. 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' - Bonnie Tyler
5. 'Seasons in the Sun' - Terry Jacks
6. 'DOA' - Bloodrock
7. 'Strange Fruit' - Billie Holiday
8. 'Hurt' - Nine Inch Nails
9. ' Sister Morphine' - Marianne Faithfull
10. 'People Who Died' - The Jim Carroll Band
11. 'One' - Metallica
12. Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town' - Kenny Rogers & the First Edition
13. 'Brick' - Ben Folds Five
14. 'Comfortably Numb' - Pink Floyd
15. 'Maggie's Dream' - Don Williams
16. 'The Rose' - Bette Midler
17. 'The Freshmen' - The Verve Pipe
18. 'Prayers for Rain' - The Cure
19. 'Women's Prison' - Loretta Lynn
20. 'All By Myself' - Celine Dion
21. 'Tell Laura I Love Her' - Ray Peterson
22. 'The River' - Bruce Springsteen
23. 'You Don't Bring Me Flowers' - Barbra Streisand & Neil Diamond
24. 'My Immortal' - Evanescence
25. 'Sam Stone' - John Prine
26. 'In The Air Tonight' - Phil Collins
27. 'MacArthur Park' - Richard Harris
28. 'Round Here' - Counting Crows
29. 'I Will Always Love You' - Whitney Houston
30. 'The End' - The Doors
31. 'Last Kiss' - J. Frank Wilson & the Cavaliers
32. 'Mandy' - Barry Manilow
33. 'Don't Cry Out Loud' - Melissa Manchester
34. 'Goodbye to Love' - The Carpenters
35. 'Beth' - Kiss
36. 'At Seventeen' - Janis Ian
37. 'Let Her Cry' - Hootie & the Blowfish
38. 'Alone Again (Naturally)' - Gilbert O'Sullivan
39. 'It Must Be Him' - Vicki Carr
40. 'Without You' - Mariah Carey
41. 'Send in the Clowns' - Judy Collins
42. 'In the Year 2525 (Exordium And Terminus)' - Zager & Evans
43. 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' - Gordon Lightfoot
44. 'Sylvia's Mother' - Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show
45. 'Indiana Wants Me' - R. Dean Taylor
46. 'Captain Jack' - Billy Joel
47. 'Lucky Man' - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
48. 'Landslide' - The Smashing Pumpkins
49. 'Teen Angel' - Mark Dinning
50. 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' - Joy Division
51. 'Artificial Flowers' - Bobby Darin
52. 'Same Old Lang Syne' - Dan Fogelberg

Where is "Shannon" by Henry Gross, dammit?!

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Ecclesiastes 5:8

Why?

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Sex isn't dirty, sex isn't a crime. It's a loving act between two or more consenting adults.

-Hank Kingsley

Sure, "The River" is pretty bleak, but "Downbound Train" makes me wanna not be alive. Great song, though.

Thought about it but I was hoping there was a program or some instructions on how to do so. I didn’t want to be pulling a bunch of books in error. Although I guess I probably could have just looked for obvious wrongly shelved books and pulled them. Probably should have done that.

I think few people know all of the resources the library has for use by the public.

For instance, with my Houston Library card in get free in home access to Morningstar and Value Line. That is about $1,000 or so of pretty nice investing resources for absolutely nothing.

Dewey was a bad guy. Don't support his system.

I hate reading. I'm not good at it. I've done more reading in the last 7 weeks than I have in the last 7 years. I don't think I've read a book or novel in over 3 years. It sucks.

Sounds like the Bee-Gees doing a yacht-rock ballad.

https://youtu.be/welpmjkW4-o

Dewey's been out forever, it's mostly Library of Congress classifications.

It was a joke.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."