The Far Ray

"What do you mean the banjo is too friggin' loud??"

[pugsandslothsmaketheworldgoround]

Pugly one you are

[crafthunters]

Lampshades made from dried wildflowers by Ignacio Canales Aracil (http://www.canalesaracil.com)

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[hoganhere]

Be true to your school — your preschool.  Next time you’re able, put your nose over a jar of paste or Play-Doh and inhale deeply.  Myself, I’m trying to grow down.

[maddieonthings]

Christmas is coming! Joy to the world

[handsomedogs]

Maddie the Coonhound Halloween Costume Options

[thefarray]

We got eyeball candy and mentos tubes for our trick and treaters this year, but no one but the rain came. It was such a bummer we had to eat the lollies ourselves. Next year I'm going to tie Mungo out front in a costume to try and entice people in, every one loves a cute dog, especially with a moustache

[azizalbraik]

Book sculpture by Thomas Wightman

[crafthunters]

Made by Nga Waiata

Was hunted by Aleksandra Nogina

Country: New Zealand

Could be caught at www.ngawaiata.com

Read on CRAFTHUNTERS: Some words about Nga Waiata jewelry

[thenearsightedmonkey]

Bat Bird by Lynda Barry— Hand ground Chinese ink on scrap paper, 8.5 x 11

[fuckiminmy20s]

[hoganhere]

why we wake up tired.

[walkitoffottawa-blog]

[literarydogs]

Johnny Cash

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The intricate magic of pencil lead sculptor Dalton Ghetti.

[littlehands-wgtn]

Friday 31st August

[littlehands-wgtn]

Saturday 28th July

Snowdrops for a clear Winter day

[thefarray]

Check this out - little bronze hands appear all over Wellington (NZ) with wee tokens for folk to look at or take....love this!!

[thefarray]

Another hard day at the office for Mungo.

[hoganhere]

HOPE.

[thefarray]

Arrrrrrgh --- heart- ---ripping---tearing

[thefarray]

Dunedin artist Pamela Brown used her entire house as a gallery for her brilliant final MFA exhibition "Dress Up' Wrapped Up". Stunning, creative and imaginative - loved it.

[thefarray]

Rectums, repossesions, raconteur or reference librarian??

It's a question I've often been asked, perhaps with not such alliteration, but people have their peculiar views of librarians and the library 'profession'. Mostly "Why?" or "Oh do you like books?". This came to mind today as I spoke with a former colleague who has signed up for the MLIS, now MIS (they've dropped the 'L' word 'cos it's like the 'F' word, at Victoria University. He seemed rather despondent about the course: it's not important, not worth anything -  just the means to an end blah blah, and was surprised when I told him I thought it was great he was doing it and that he would get a lot out of it. We spoke for a while about what I had really enjoyed and lots that I could take or leave, but with any post graduate study, you get what you put in. If you think it is a crap piece of qualification and you know everything and won't get anything from it - you're right on the ball, you won't. Why should you. He said that at the orientation the graduates who came and spoke were rather negative and mainly went on about how good it was to get it over and done with. Very inspirational. It pissed me off. I think studying is a privilege which only a few of us get to do. If you do it, put some energy into it and get lots out of it - why the hell else would you bother. Sure it allowed me to apply for senior positions, but I honestly learnt a whole lot from it too. I learnt that indexing and controlled vocabularies freakin' rock the party. Unicode and data sharing is incredibly magic, I get the 0 1 bits, well sort of but not really, it just works and it's so clever. There are so many ways to catalogue something - it's a real art to do it well.  I learnt that I need to put my hands on the desk to keep them still when I interview people otherwise I look like a dick. So many other things too, but I also learnt that I love it as a job and profession, I'm proud of it and couldn't give a toss what others think. It satisfies ME at lots of levels and that is more important than making lots of money. You could not pay me enough money to look up someone's rectum for cancer - I can't cope with sick people or body smells. Neither could I happily compose repossession notices to be sent to someone who has defaulted on their loan or to talk up some story to encourage people to invest in your scheme which goes bust and leaves them destitute (how could you keep living in your flash house paid by your family trust funds?). No it's 'Reference Librarian' any day for me. I don't care what others think - never have that's why I play the banjo and the ukulele and live with a Leeds United supporter. BUT if you are a librarian and you've done the course and you can't think of anything good about it - shut the fuck up and don't go to the new recruits orientation and put them off. If you want to be a wanker join the National Party.