Truly Green Comics: Books that Grow

The website Sprout Home has started offering comics that no one will ever be able to add to their library collection:  two comics that grow real flowers.  The comics are infused with seeds right in the pages, wildflowers for April Showers and herbs for The Gardner.

Now I ask you, what the hell is this crap?  I am an avid comic collector.  I have read great comics and horrid comics, but none of them have I read that afterwards I thought, "This bastard belongs in the ground."  I think even if the pages of Spider-man could be planted and sprout web shooters and $10 bills, the comic would still be bagged and boarded and put in a box.  I cannot imaging giving a kid a comic and then saying, "Now lets bury it."  Even as an older brother that convinced his sister that burying her Cabbage Patch doll would grow more of them, I can honestly say this is a horrible idea.

Library offers Binoculars to Watch Eagles

Hotel California was the best!

A library in Elgin, Ill is loaning patrons binoculars to see some guests that have come to town.  Unfortunately, those guests are not the band The Eagles, but just a bunch of birds.  If anyone is interested I am going to be in the parking lot blasting Hotel California while the hippies get their bird watching on.

And you can bet the son of a bitch is watching them right back.

Original article here

Image copyright National Geographic

Shouting for a Library!

Apparently the Chicago area really likes their buildings to become useful. 

"A group of Chicago parents and community members have staged a round-the-clock sit-in at a field house adjacent to Whittier Elementary School in Pilsen, demanding that the dilapidated building be turned into a school library." -- School Library Journal (Link to full article)

Leading with chants that "[They] want a library" I have to wonder if they know what they are getting into.  Do they know that if their plans succeed, this will be the last time they are able to shout in that area?  Can they handle that? 

Either way, I applaud them.  Not many people sit down and shout for what they believe in.  Doubly so when that cause is libraries.  Bravo, Chicago!