EPISODE 42 (142): What Would Wal-Mart Jesus Do?

On this special day, on which we both celebrate the birth of our savior and worship at the altar of commerce, I bring you a Christmas story of another humble servant of God.

One of the most memorable patrons we ever had to deal with was a fellow we collectively called Jesus and who I blog-dubbed Wal-Mart Jesus. How come? Cause he looked like Jesus, but wearing flowing, striped, table-clothy robes that looked as if they had been pulled directly from a roll in Wal-Mart's fabric department. He was instantly recognizable and very very memorable. Which is odd, because the major trouble we had with him stemmed from an incident involving him that none of us could remember.

WWWMJD? Drive us nuts.

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SHOW NOTES:

• Tales from the "Liberry" blog
• Original Blog Entry: "Wal-Mart Jesus Won't Leave Me Alone"
• Original Blog Entry: "Wal-Mart Jesus Vs. The Internet"
• Original Blog Entry: "New Threads"
• Original Blog Entry: "Wal-Mart Jesus Has Had Enough"
• Original Blog Entry: "Wal-Mart Jesus Prepares to Smite the Wicked"
• Original Blog Entry: "Twenty-Five Minutes With Wal-Mart Jesus"
  

EPISODE 41 (141): Christmas Party Pack

I loves me some Christmas Party. Yessir. Nearly my favorite kind of party due to high concentrations of fantastic food and drink and presents. Our "liberry" Christmas parties were especially fun, as we usually did them potluck style and stuffed ourselves beyond full with the amazing dishes created by the wonderful cooks I worked with (and am married to). But there are many varieties of Christmas party beyond the "liberry", not to mention just nutty seasonal crap to deal with. This week's podcast explores the topic all around.

This podcast features unfortunate guest appearances by both Chester the (potential) Molester and my colon.

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SHOW NOTES:

• Tales from the "Liberry" blog
• Original Blog Entry: "The Greatest and Best Blog Entry in the World... tribute"
• Original Blog Entry: "Christmas Party, the fifth"
• Original Blog Entry: "More information about my bowels than is absolutely necessary!"
  
• Original Blog Entry: "Ceintures du Jus Deux (Dumbass Things I've Done Lately Week: Day 1)"
• Original Blog Entry: "Christmas Party"
• Christmas Dalek Cover Art by Stella Rowan
• Borderland Tales from the Lost Months "Jury Duty"
  

EPISODE 40 (140): Mr. B-Natural

There are rogue patrons and there are Rogue Patrons and Mr. B-Natural, Grumpiest Old Man in All the World, was usually somewhere in between. Not an evil human being by any stretch, but a tremendously cranky man, except when in the presence of his beloved pooch, Bubba. Our main beef with him is that Mr. B-Natural was a guy who definitely took pleasure in annoying the bejeezus out of the library staff by blatantly breaking as many rules as he could get away with just to piss us off. To hear him tell it, a library needs patrons who break the rules, otherwise we would have no reason to have rules at all. (Which, I think, was exactly the motivation of Professor Zoom, the arch-nemesis of The Flash.) So he continually signed his name upside down on our computer sign in sheet and tried to sneak his coffee back to the computers for his daily crossword. These are but a few of his stories.

DOWNLOAD: TFT"LC" Episode 40 (140): Mr. B-Natural.

SHOW NOTES:

• Tales from the "Liberry" blog
• Original Blog Entry: "The Greatest and Best Blog Entry in the World... tribute"
• Original Blog Entry: "Mr. B-Natural's Coffee `Brakes' "
• Original Blog Entry: "Poor Bubba"
• Original Blog Entry: "Mr. B-Missing?"
• Original Blog Entry: "The Return of the Cranky King"
• Original Blog Entry: "B's Fleas"
• Original Blog Entry: "Mr. B-Natural Slakes his Thirst for Righteous Vengeance with the "Liberry's" Blood"
• Studio 360's Tesla Podcasts
• Jeff Smith's RASL
• Mr. B Natural short...

EPISODE 39 (139): And the Password Is...

Everybody has a secret these days. If nothing else, they have at least one computer password. We went through several at the "liberry" for our patron computers, mostly because our patrons kept hacking them. And, sure, we didn't always make this as difficult as we should, but people having the patron computer password wasn't exactly the end of the world. It was just irritating. And who among our patrons tended to be the ones who tried to hack us most frequently? Why the Rogue Patrons, of course.

(Featuring appearances by Parka, The Evil Fed Ex Guy and the Devil Twins Auxiliary League of Neighborhood Kids)

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SHOW NOTES:

• Tales from the "Liberry" blog
• Original Blog Entry: "And the Password is..."
• Original Blog Entry: "And the Password is (2007)"
• Original Blog Entry: "And the stars aligned (a.k.a. "The Password STILL is...")"
• Original Blog Entry: "And the Password is (2007)"
• Patrice O'Neal on YouTube