9.09.08 missle-anius

Category: dribblings

we’re learning a new program at work. it’s going to takle awhile before we really know how to use it, and unfortunately we don’t get any time before we have to use it. i hope the patrons understand. oh, and right as i was leaving yesterday? boss and Training Guy was scrambling around the computer in a near frantic way because we seem to have lost two full days of transactions. **sigh**

two full days of checkins and checkouts.

this will only make us look more inept than we really are. neat.

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while i was reading the Raymond Burr biography of eternal boredom, the author mentioned something about Dorothy Kilgallen. so i thought i’d read something about her next. i had forgotten that there was a bio of her written by Lee Israel, ( i know! bonus, right? in fact, when i saw it at the “real” library i nearly let out a cheer. which, no one would have noticed because at the “real” library they hide the bios in a cave behind a secret staricase around a magic column-door not unlike Platform 9 3/4. i actually stumbled across the bio section ONLY AFTER i had crawled through the wardrobe to get to the “Narnia” that is the nonfiction section. AM I RIGHT?)  who’s book, Can you Ever Forgive Me? i read last month or in July or whenever, and i had wanted to read something else she had written because she writes well and has clever sentences, like Anne Lamott (say, isn’t she due for a new one?). i think that’s a good comparison. not that they write about the same things, but that they are very good writers and their sentences are often clever.

i’ll admit it, i’m a sucker for clever. every time.

for instance, i’m only about 100 pages in, but this bit here was just a perfect amount of background info with a snark zinger at the end:

“On the lots, Selznick was shooting A Star is Born with Janet Gaynor. Twentieth Century-Fox’s new release list included Love is News, with Tyrone Power, and One in a Million, starring Sonja Henie. Sylvia Sidney and Henry Fonda were doing You Only Live Once at United. And MGM had just begun Captains Courageous, for which Spencer Tracy took a permanent wave, and Maytime, in which Nelson Eddie took Jeanette McDonald.”

hee.

i had no idea that Dorothy Kilgallen was an actual reporter. i thought she was just a Hollywood gossip columnist type person. so see, i’m learning something.

and i think it’s really cool how my reading choices the past couple of months have been sort of circular or whatnot with the whole Hellman to Israel to Hellman again, around Raymond Burr to Kilgallen which brings me back to Israel.

of course, after this one i’m back to the Twilight series of complete shit. but then after that i’ve some true crime (it’s the newest Leopold and Loeb book. it starts out great but the middle is just so blah with the Chicago political history lesson) to get off my queue. blah blah blah. OH! and i’ve got Paul Auster’s new one and i’m looking forward to that one. it will be my prize for finishing Eclipse.

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