Facebook Zero to Become Super Hero

Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, subject of The Social Network, and person so rich he could buy me and everyone I know and sell us twice, is now getting to be a freaking comic book super hero.  Hey, I have another idea, lets shower him with gold rose petals while he has sex with all my old girlfriends and they tell me he is better than me at you know... stuff.  

Seriously?!  Why does this guy get to be a super hero?  There are firemen, policemen, hell, freaking crossing guards more deserving.  I need a drink and it is not even noon.

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It's a Shelver, It's a Cataloger, No! It's Super Librarian!

Batgirl, the O.G. Super Librarian

 Ever wanted to be a super hero?  How about a librarian super hero?  Gale, a company within Cengage Learning, has announced the "Are You a Librarian Superhero Contest" to unmask library superheroes.  A nominated librarian will be announced at this year's ALA conference and be published in a comic.

My thoughts on this?  Do not do this librarian superheroes!  Giving up your identity is the first mistake in superherodom!  Captain America fought and died to protect your identities (not that it did much good) and let us not even talk about how much of a steaming crap heap Spider-man's life and comics became after unmasking.  Just ask yourself, WWBGD?  What would Barbara Gordon (Batgirl) Do?  That lady took a bullet and kept on going!  Surely you can do the same library super heroes!

Does anyone else think "Gale" sounds like a supervillian's name?  What other library-centric things sound "superheroey"?  What would your superhero librarian name be?  What would be your powers?  Discuss.

Original press release and contest info here
Image from here

I Don't Wanna! Okay... Steampunk Sarah Palin

I use this to hunt Russi... polar moose bears, you betcha!

I do not know why I am reporting this, but here goes:  The Steampunk Sarah Palin comic book is not just a joke I made up to point out all the things I hate in politics/sci fi right now no it is a real thing that hurts my brain meat.  If anyone, man, woman, child, or manwomanchild, comes up to you the library and requests this graphic novel or tries to start a conversation about this, you beat them over the head with a copy of Preacher and then tell the media why.  You tell them of the bile and filth you live with, that this cannot go on.  Then, show them this post and stand back as they begin to beat the corpse of the manwomanchild themselves.  

Via Daemons Books