Tag Archives: DVDs
Stuff We’re Enjoying: Early Spring Edition
Summer weather arrived in Pittsburgh this past week, dramatically muscling spring weather out of the way with a flourish, flipping its ponytail over its shoulder and flopping down on a beach towel with a good book. Your stalwart Eleventh Stack crew … Continue reading
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I (Somewhat) Hate Being Irish
Perhaps the only holiday I dislike as much as Christmas is St. Patrick’s Day. I also loathe being Irish. That’s right. Amongst other things, I have little pride in my ancestors’ alcoholism, bad skin, belligerence, and boiled potato cuisine. But … Continue reading
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30 Days, 30 Ways To Use Your Library Card
September rolls around again, with a flurry of storms and a welcome temperature drop. Any day now the leaves will start changing; I peek at the trees each time I walk across the front lawn, waiting and hoping for glimmers of … Continue reading
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Crazed Men with Battery Powered Drills: The Slumber Party Massacre Movies
A couple weeks ago, a group of smart-ass friends and I watched all three Slumber Party Massacre movies in one night. Should you do the same? Reviewers often mention that the screenplay for the first Slumber Party Massacre was written … Continue reading
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All My Outsiders
“Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.” - R. Crumb I love Mark Hoggencamp, the subject of the recent documentary Marwencol. It won’t be giving too much away to say that in 2000, Hoggencamp slipped into … Continue reading
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More Things You Didn’t Know About JCEC
The Job and Career Education Center offers a few services and resources that many people don’t know about. Did you know we have a scanner with OCR (optical character recognition) software? This means that we can help you create edit-able computer … Continue reading
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Hoop — There It Is!
One of my Christmas gifts this year was, much to my surprise, a hoop. Not a hula hoop, mind you. Er, well, sort of a hula hoop. The shape is the same, but the size and usage are a little different, and … Continue reading
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Go play inside.
Now that’s it’s getting colder and darker, it’s time to find some indoor pursuits. Bowling Bowling Faults and Fixes Bowling Lessons From the Pros Chess Elliot’s Chess School Winning Chess the Easy Way Juggling Anyone Can Juggle How to Juggle … Continue reading
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They Say It’s Your Birthday!
Well, it’s my birthday too, yeah! Actually, it’s not. But if today is your birthday, you’re in good company. How do I know? Well, you see, we here at the Library have access to this marvelous book called Chase’s Calendar … Continue reading
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