EPISODE 29 (129): Banned

In honor of National Banned Books Week, we present an expanded version of an Actual Conversation Heard in an Actual Library on that very topic. Directly interwoven with this tale is the story of my abiding love of the Walter the Farting Dog series and how my "liberry" self-banned it for several months to avoid the nonexistent wrath of coddling parents.

All in all, four different Tales from the "Liberry", each involving Walter to some degree, are covered in today's podcast, yet none of them are in their original form from the blog. Eat new content!
DOWNLOAD: TFT"LC" Episode 29 (129): Banned

SHOW NOTES:

• Tales from the "Liberry" blog
• Original blog entry: "Actual Conversations Heard in Actual Libraries #31"
• Original blog entry: "New Addition (Gassy Dogs II Men)"
• Original blog entry: "First Words"
• Original blog entry: "Actual Conversations Heard in Actual Libraries #88"

EPISODE 28 (128): The Dreamcast

Libraries are places full of dreams. (Just ask Lucien.) Sometimes they can be literal, such as a nightmare I once had regarding a particular problem patron discovering the blog, or my dream of revenge on Joss Whedon for... well, Firefly fans know what Joss did. Other times, in title alone. And other times, it can be the dreams of a patron, dashed by a surly "liberry" ass. such as myself. They can all be found in today's DreamCAST.

DOWNLOAD: TFT"LC" Episode 28 (128): The Dreamcast

SHOW NOTES:

• Tales from the "Liberry" blog
• Original blog entry: "E = M.F. ^2"
• Original blog entry: "Dreaming of Me (Ooooo, la la la... OooooooooOOOOO)"
• Original blog entry: "Kicked `em Squar"
  
• Original blog entry: "Don't even DREAM about them, cause they know when you're dreaming about them"
• Original blog entry: "Actual Telephone Conversations Heard in Actual Libraries #97 (a.k.a. "Juice Dashes Yet More Dreams!")"

EPISODE 27 (127): Anniversaries and Origins

Today's 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks brings to mind where I was during that time a decade ago and how it coincided with my hiring at the Tri-Metro "liberry." Today's podcast presents an adaptation of that portion of Secret Origins of Tales from the "Liberry" as well as a commentary bit containing the actual never-before-revealed secret origin of the blog.

DOWNLOAD: TFT"LC" Episode 27 (127): Anniversaries and Origins

SHOW NOTES:

• Tales from the "Liberry" blog
• Original Blog Entry: The Secret Origin of Tales from the "Liberry" (Part 5)
  
• Blogger Michelle Au's 9/11 account
  

EPISODE 26 (126): D-Con Kills Nerds Dead

As you might have noticed, I'm an enormous nerd. Maybe not quite as nerdy as the Nerdist Podcast, but nerdy all the same. As such, I'm fond of heading out to nerd gatherings such as the infamous Dragon Con in Atlanta. In honor of this being Dragon Con weekend for 2011, I present some non-"liberry" tales of my D-Con experiences of the past decade. Included are encounters with gerbil-cleavaged sci-fi heroines; Annoying Brit Track Boy's near-death-experience at the hands of both the panel audience and the 5th Doctor Who; an awkward encounter with Biff from Back to the Future, Harlan Ellison laying verbal waste to one and all; and, as always, the guy that played Boomer in the 70s Battlestar Galactica.

DOWNLOAD: TFT"LC" Episode 26 (126): D-Con Kills Nerds Dead

SHOW NOTES:

• Tales from the "Liberry" blog
• Original Blog Entry: "D-Con Kills Nerds Dead"
• Original Blog Entry: "D-Con Report 2004"
• Original Blog Entry: Comic Cons tag