Sookie Stackhouse No More: True Blood Author Calling It Quits

Dead Until Two Books from now.

Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse books that inspired the TV series True Blood that finally got my girlfriend to stop reading Twilight and read real vampire books but did start a disturbing new twist in our sex life, is calling it quits.  According to Buzzsugar, Harris claims that Sookie has taken over her life and she wants to write something a bit different.

Okay, before anyone hyperventilates, there are more than enough books in that series to keep the TV show going.  Hell, I think they could just start recycling "Real Sex" episodes and no one would notice.  And shame on them for never including Bubba.

If you are after the books, well, sorry.  As goes of Harry Potter, so goes Sookie.  I do not see raging groups of 10-35 year olds trying to burn down that Hogwarts thing at Universal.

Personally, I see the series continuing with a Hooters-esqe restaurant chain like the one from the show.  No one will go there for wings either.

Dewy Decimal Tour: A Fun Way to Take the Job on Vacation

I'm on a boat!

Suzanne Hiott, a librarian in South Carolina, started a "Dewey Decimal Destinations Tour" to education others about her state.  The Tour compromises each of the 10 categories of the DDC, for instance "for the social science section, the Hiotts focused on a visit to the Charleston Harbor where 'tall ships from around the world were coming in,' Capers Hiott narrated" says this article from The Item.  The nearly 700 hundred photographs Hiott took on her trip have been placed on a DVD narrated by her husband.

I think this is an interesting way to take a vacation, albeit with more planning than I  generally put into my time off.  What dewey number would drunken blackouts be attributed to?  Not addiction, I can stop any time I want. 

Audacity of Parenting: Obama Children Not Allowed on Facebook

First Lady Michelle Obama told the Today Show this morning that her children would not be on Facebook any time soon.  I stood up and applauded until I cried like I just saw a baby sparrow leap from the nest and take flight.  Holy crap, an actual parent parenting.  We should put this woman in a glass case or something.

The First Lady went on to say, "I'm not a big fan of young kids having Facebook.  It's not something they need. It's not necessary."


I need to bake this woman a cake.  

Check out the full article and what she said here.

Library Crime: Librarian Alegedly Steals $163,000

Margo Reed, a Yonkers librarian, allegedy stole $163,000 over a six year period while collecting late fees and fines.  According to this article, police say she also altered library records to hide the funds, much like one of those crazy embezzlers from high falootin' movie pictures. 

Now this is a lady that does it right (allegedly)!  Why mess around selling books on Ebay or throwing ketchup everywhere?  This lady wanted to get paid (allegedly)!  Hell, that's enough to put a down payment on a really nice house.  What do you spend that kind of money on?  Damn sure not your taxes.

President William McKinley's Books Set Free!

After nearly a century, the books of President William McKinley will be loosed up on the world.  Although this reviewer has not seen nor really finished any paragraph of any news report about this topic, he envisions horrors beyond belief.  Spells for calling up on eldrich abominations that loom in dimensions of darkness and decay haunt these texts.  Kittens and frogs transplanted in the world, living separately but equally upon lily pads of doom.  Doodles, oh the doodles of hellish configurations in the margins, wispy circular drawings of imaginable death and destruction. 

A more respectful look here.

Jose Canseco To Pen Third Masterpiece

The Tolstoy of our times.

Jose Canseco claims his third book will stay away from topics such as steroids and focus more on his life, the NY Daily news reports.  I can only assume this third novel will tell of his tenuous history at the premier magic school Boggswarts, and how he defeated the Great and Mighty to become the greatest Bats-man of them all. 

Seriously, I know this guy has lots of stories about baseball on the road (most of them pretty good, I bet), but after two books about getting so big your head and testicles are roughly the same size you should just keep up the trend.  Go into fiction, writing a wondrous story about a little boy who finds fame and fortune at the end of a needle.  Call it "Field of Misinformed Yet Successful Dreams."

Shirley Jefferson the Library Hawk Released

In a small update, it seems "Shirley Jefferson" the hawk that found its way into the Library of Congress (and our hearts) was released into the wild today according to the Washington Post.  I know where I was when I first learned of the hawk:  it was a mild day, wind blowing slightly from the east.  A chill was in the air and I held my jacket closer around me.  Then my friend looked up from his lap top and said, "Hey, nerd.  Check out this dumb fuckin' bird in the Library of Congress."  Ah, memories.