Sunday, February 24, 2013

EPISODE 047 (247): "Paging Mr. Williams" and other Random Tales

An assemblage of seemingly random tales (no, I didn't roll actual dice to choose them this time), of fun, frustrating, exuberant, and occasionally mystifying experiences I had from across the spectrum of my "liberry" career.  Guest stars include, Cap'n Crossdresser, Barbara Turdmurkle (though you have to squint to see her), a bunch of patrons asking questions with perilously obvious answers, and a rather famous personage once portrayed by Mr. Robin Williams.

(No, hints, but he's looking at you right now.) --->

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EPISODE 12 (112): Conspiracy Theory and other Abused Substances (BONUS REPOST)


A BONUS REPOSTING OF AN EPISODE FEATURING STONER LAD.  NO REASON.

Among existing "liberry" patron archetypes, Conspiracy Guy and Stoner Lad are probably two of the more universal ones. Every library has them, sometimes in multiples. We did as well, but there were two specific patrons that embodied these roles for me. Alas, by the time I began to write my blog, they had more or less moved on. But on one perfect night, they afforded me a glimpse of their combined powers of archetypical representation.

(Now who sounds like he's on drugs?)

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Monday, February 18, 2013

EPISODE 046 (246): DirecTV Sucks Ass!

Those of you who have ever had service through DirecTV probably already know this, but it has been my experience that it sucks ass.  A lot of ass.  Copious amounts of ass.  And not in a good way.   I don't want to say that as a media distribution corporation they're a bunch of dirty liars willing to tell you anything you want to hear to get you to sign up, knowing full well that by the time you discover how much they've been lying to you in the first you'll be past their trial period and locked into an 18 month contract with them and subject to massive fees should I wish to discontinue service... but certainly the employees of DirecTV that I dealt with in just such a situation were in fact all dirty liars willing to tell me anything I wanted to hear to get me to sign up for their service, knowing full well that by the time I discovered just how much they had lied to me, I'd already be under the 18 month contract and subject to massive fees should I wish to discontinue my service.

Unfortunately for them, they'd never before had to deal with a bowel monkey as angry as mine.  Nor had they yet had the misfortune of crossing my wife. 

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Sunday, February 10, 2013

EPISODE 045 (245): Cross Words

One of the patrons who I assumed would remain my arch-enemy for the life of the blog was Grumpiest Old Man in All the World, Mr. B-Natural.  This turned out not to be the case, as by the time I ended the blog in 2008, Mr. B-Natural had stopped actively trying to piss us off and we had developed something of a grudging mutual respect.  However, he still had his moments where the old grumpy soul would flare through, especially when his beloved Wall Street Journal cross word puzzles were endangered.  This podcast also tells the mysterious tale of Mr. B-Natural's briefly adopted toupee.

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Sunday, February 3, 2013

EPISODE 044 (244): One Day in Tibet

I'm no stranger to anniversaries.  They happen every year.  I've tried to keep secrets about my wife's birthday that have left me stranded and screaming in the middle of an interstate on more than one occasion after she pulls those secrets out of the air, seemingly by means that might even be unholy in nature.  Eventually, I learned that a little bit of preventative maintenance went a long way in terms of keeping said secrets.  Unfortunately, getting my wife to actually pay attention to my desire to keep my big yap shut is sometimes a more difficult process than setting up those secrets to begin with.  You just can't win with her.  Or, in my case, you can't often win.  These are but some of those stories.


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EPISODE 48 (148): The Anniversary Flight Blues (REPOST)

IN HONOR OF MY IMPENDING WEDDING ANNIVERSARY, AND THE WEDDING ANNIVERSARY PODCAST THAT SHALL ACCOMPANY IT, HERE IS A BONUS REPOSTING OF LAST YEAR'S WEDDING ANNIVERSARY-THEMED PODCAST.

Wedding anniversaries: for me they happen every year and this year my 12th anniversary just happens to fall on the day this episode drops, Sunday, February 5. So, because I have a sum total of ZERO football stories from the blog I could slip in here to create a different theme, and because I love my wife (those excuses may not be in the right order), I shall tell an off-blog yet-still-blog-like tale regarding a mystery anniversary concert the wife arranged for me for our 3rd anniversary, way back before Tales from the "Liberry" even began.


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