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I Call It “Cup of Dirt”

Taking a break from the insanity of barreling towards graduation to post this important interlude…. I don’t get modern art.

It may be funny.

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Or disturbing (although the title of this one is something else.)

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But I just don’t understand it.  I don’t want to get into some argument about what makes art “art” right now (a topic for another day perhaps?), but I had to bring it up because I stumbled across this work the other day, which just keeps popping to mind.

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The website calls it an “interior earth sculpture.” (I’m trying to understand where the “sculpture” part comes in.) It is a 3,600 sq. ft. room filled with 250 cubic yards of earth.  In other words, a room of dirt.  According to this article, sometimes mushrooms grow in it, it is regularly watered, and the caretaker has to watch for mold.  People also get to walk in it from time to time (mud pies anyone?)

I don’t know what the artist was trying to say with this work – like I said, I don’t get modern art.  But for me, I picture science fairs, thanks to this skit…

The life of an MLIS student near graduation…

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Yep.

Happy Fourth of July!

Don the red, white, and blue, break out the hot dogs, and try not to blow anything off while setting off fireworks.  There are many concerning things happening in our country these days, but today step back, and celebrate just how lucky we are!

Check this version out as well.

And something less traditional (because it’s absolutely brilliant)…

(h/t The Anchoress for this one)

*Cough Cough*

First, one person started coughing.  Then another.

Soon there was a chorus of coughing filling the area.  Something weird was going on.  I was in the Return Room (all strange happenings seem to occur when I’m there…) and watched as a young woman bolted towards the door, coughing violently.  She passed by an old couple, where the wife was hovering by her husband, who was bent double coughing.

A moment later, the fire alarm went off.

Suffice it to say, Sunday was an eventful day at the library.  Ten minutes later, we were watching the firemen and police at work.  There wasn’t smoke or a fire.  There was a nice big cloud of pepper spray covering part of the fiction section.

One firetruck, three cop cars, three big ole fans, and one hour later, the library was clear.  No idea how it happened, but we all got a nice break out in the sunshine.  Now here’s hoping it doesn’t happen again.  Easy breathing is one more service we like to offer our patrons.

On a side note, we have some very determined patrons.  If I saw a firetruck and three cop cars parked outside the library, along with a large group of people standing in the parking lot waiting, I’d probably turn around and go back another day.  Yet, people kept coming, asking when the library would be open.  I salute their determination!

Although…I’m not quite sure about the few who walked right by the commotion and tried to enter through the door…

Quotables

“Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.”
- C.S. Lewis

Toy Story 3

Yesterday, Squish, Scout (sister-friend), and I went to see Toy Story 3.  While not rabid fans, my entire family does love Disney.  We go to one of the parks every couple of years, and own more than our fair share of the films. So, we were pretty excited about this movie.

Not to mention, this is Toy Story.  Seeing toys you played with come to life speaks to my inner kid.

Anyways, as you can see in the trailer, takes place awhile after the first two.  (Just so you know, this review will be spoiler free.)  Andy is no longer a kid, but a teenager headed off to college. Suffice it to say, he no longer plays with Woody, Buzz, and the gang.  In the process of preparing for college, the toys are accidentally donated to the Sunnyside Day Care, which turns out to be a nightmare.  The rest of the movie follows the toys as they try to return to Andy before he leaves. (Trust me, it’s not as boring as I’m making it sound!)

This movie is both touching and funny.  All three of us were cracking up through most of the movie.  The dialogue is just as witty as the first two without them trying to reuse old material (the Pirates of the Caribbean movies come to mind). I really can’t think of any major problems I had with the movie, although, in my opinion, they took the Ken thing a little too far.

Toy Story 3 is rated G, so completely safe for the kids to see.  So, definitely go see it with the entire family.  I haven’t so thoroughly enjoyed a film for awhile now.

Warning: The movie will bring up strong feelings of nostalgia in anyone 16 and up, especially those who are a “child at heart.”  Upon walking out of the theater, you will be reminiscing about your old toys and games you used to play. So watch out.

Around the Web

This week’s round-up:

Test-tube babies struggle with identity issues

Grandparents as Guardians of Faith

Churchill as a non-smoker: How today’s PC censors airbrushed out his cigar

The Modern Slave Trade

DISCLOSing Contempt for Liberty and the Constitution

Wiltshire vicar revives ancient archery law – This is great.