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About Me

She patted him on the arm. "You're fucked up, Mister. But you're cool."
"I believe that's what they call the human condition," said Shadow.

--Neil Gaiman, American Gods, 2001

"Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life you'd like to; So if there's something you'd like to try...ask me, I won't say no, how could I?"
"Ask," The Smiths

My Interests

Libraries, librarians, librarianship, and other concepts using the stem term librar* [that's truncation]

I'd like to meet:

"But how do you coin the phrase though that will set your soul apart, just to touch a lonely heart?"
"Summertime", The Sundays

"We've listened more to life's end gong than the sound of life's sweet bells."
"Missed the Boat," Modest Mouse

I am always happy to meet (virtually and IRL): librarians, lie-brarians, Libra-rians, and anyone who can pronounce both "r"s in "library."

Music:

Alkaline Trio-Archers of Loaf-Aztec Camera-Cake-Mary Chapin Carpenter-The Clash-Elvis Costello-Culture Club-Depeche Mode-Duran Duran-Garbage-John Wesley Harding-Robyn Hitchcock-The Jesus and Mary Chain-Love and Rockets-The Magnetic Fields-Manic Street Preachers-Modest Mouse-The 'mats-New Order-NOFX-Not Your Usual Bollocks podcast-The 'placemats-Prefab Sprout-Punkreas-The Replacements-Talking Heads-The Triffids-Paul Westerberg-Yaz

Movies:

Barjo-Being John Malkovich-Flirting with Disaster-The Terminator-This Is Spinal Tap (and all other music documentaries)--PLUS filmation involving the following individuals: Isabelle Adjani-John Cusack-Julie Delpy-Madhuri Dixit-Brendan Fraser-Jim Jarmusch-Charlie Kaufman-Gong Li-Ewan McGregor (esp. naked!!)-Deepa Mehta (esp. Fire)-Julia Stiles-Eric Stoltz-Russell Wong

Television:

I do not have one.

Books:

Iain Banks (Complicity)-Raymond Chandler-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni-Umberto Eco-Sparkle Hayter-Jhumpa Lahiri-Judith Martin-Iain Pears-Ian Rankin-Laura Joh Rowland-Steven Saylor-Dan Savage-David Sedaris-Alexander McCall Smith-Sophocles (Oedipus Rex)-Irvine Welsh-Tom Wolfe--PLUS in general, literature of the Indian diaspora

Heroes:

Wonder Woman

My Blog

For the Pott-heads

I don't indulge, but I know many of you love the H.P. Contact your library to find full text of the article.Headache. 2007 Jun;47(6):911-6.Harry Potter and the curse of headache.Sheftell F, Steiner TJ...
Posted by Arpita on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 01:19:00 PST

Honolulu and Los Angeles

For the last 10 days, I enjoyed a wonderful vacation way out West in Hawaii and California. I attended the wedding of my friends T. and C. in Honolulu. Everything was lovely: the weather was balmy, th...
Posted by Arpita on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:30:00 PST

Spring

New York City is lovely right now. The weather is cool, the skies are overcast, and there is almost some fog, which makes the city seem a tiny bit like (the good part of) Palos Verdes. Tulips bloom in...
Posted by Arpita on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:41:00 PST

When in Pittsburgh...

This week I visited Pittsburgh, PA for the second time. PA is one of the four states that my regional medical library serves, so occasionally I travel to these exotic locales to teach the peeps about ...
Posted by Arpita on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:12:00 PST

NYC Dining Part IV

8. S'MACWhat makes NYC great? Is it the backward technological infrastructure, the poor customer service, the inflated housing bubble? No, dear readers, what makes New York the Best City in the World ...
Posted by Arpita on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 08:54:00 PST

LA Film Noir in NYC

Last night I went to MoMA to see Murder, My Sweet, a film based on Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler, one of my favorite Angeleno authors. It was a good movie, full of colorful characters and sn...
Posted by Arpita on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 06:38:00 PST

Peeps on the Train

Usually my fellow commuters are not worth commenting upon, but this morning I saw something that annoyed me. The 4 train was not crowded at all this morning, and I found a seat immediately at Franklin...
Posted by Arpita on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 05:27:00 PST

NYC Dining Part III

6. Cafe Sabarsky at Neue Galerie (http://www.neuegalerie.org oder http://www.wallse.com/)If you must have dinner and dessert, have dessert first, and if you must have dessert, go to Cafe Sabarsky in t...
Posted by Arpita on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 05:18:00 PST

Left Coast v. L'East Coast Commuting

Most of the time, riding the subway in NYC beats driving a car in LA. It is wonderful how you can safely (and legally) ride the subway drunk, whereas operating a motor vehicle while in a similar state...
Posted by Arpita on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 04:48:00 PST

NYC Dining Part II

5. Junior's (the one in Times Square)How could I forget last weekend, when I worked the Feets Conference in the heart of Times Square, one of my least favorite areas of la gran manzana. The neon gives...
Posted by Arpita on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 01:37:00 PST