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Archive for August, 2008

Viva La France!

Posted in Fun, tagged on August 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Sorry to all francophiles if the title of this post is incorrect. I made the French Onion Soup yesterday and it was hella good. The original recipe from The Epicurean was easy enough to follow:
 
Chop 2 onions into bits
Fry said onions in a crap ton of butter
Add 2 qts of broth, some parsley, some thyme [...]

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Updates like the Dickens!

Posted in Literature, tagged , on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

First off, I’ll finally have a chance to make French Onion Soup from The Epicurean this weekend. Looking forward to that. Also, it turns out Monsieur Daudet was quite the loyal monarchist. He had beef with all the revolutionaries and called for the reinstatement of the King of France.
Today’s find is from Dickens. It’s Volume 21 of [...]

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Clatto! Verata! Necktie?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on August 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

So yesterday, I picked up a copy of the Necronomicon (WorldCat). This is not the one sought by Ash in Army of Darkness. That one is due back on Sept. 22nd and I’m on a wait list for it.
Nonetheless, this version of the Necronomicon is still pretty damn wicked. The foreword is in English but the rest [...]

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Mmmm…books!

Posted in Old vs. New, tagged , on August 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Talk about a great find. I don’t really remember what started me down the Technology section of our research library, but at one point, I found myself face to face with a 1975 edition of Joy of Cooking (WorldCat). I took it off the shelf and opened it up to a random page on preparing [...]

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Raison d’être (that’s French)

Posted in Funny, tagged , , on August 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Today, I tried to locate a book in my library (the one my office is physically located in) but it wasn’t on the shelf. So I looked around to maybe see if it was close by. Not finding it in the immediate vicinity, I looked up to the top shelf to start scanning from the top [...]

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What’s going on here?

Posted in Old vs. New, tagged , , on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve worked at a university Library for 8 years now and have just started to explore it. That’s pretty sad for someone who loves to read. So I thought I’d start a blog where I search out the strange, rare, cool, interesting books that can be found in any of the campus libraries.
To start, I gathered [...]

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