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There was a time when I worked in the main branch of NYPL with the big old stone lions out front.  No longer.  These days I work at BookOps, a dual entity that encompasses both NYPL and Brooklyn Public  Library.  And in my workplace there is a great and grand and massively impressive sorting machine.  It’s very Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-esque.  I give tours of it all the time.  It sorts and assigns all the holds and returns of the system, so you know it’s gotta be cool.  Now, thanks to drone technology, you get to see not just where I work (visually stunning this part of Long Island City is not) but the kickin’ sorting machine as well.  Feast your eyes!!

Flying Around Book Ops from Nate Bolt on Vimeo.

Speaking of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I kinda like it when Al Roker gets pissed off. Makes for better TV watching. And besides, the man has a point.

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Thanks to Travis Jonker for the heads up!

In 1996 a bunch of Monty Python guys made The Wind in the Willows.  It gets better.  Steve Coogan was Mole.  Stephen Fry was The Judge.  This is not to be confused with a very similar looking version starring Matt James in 2006, of course.  Still I’m quite shocked I hadn’t seen it until now.  Fortunately there is such a thing as YouTube.  Here’s part one:

Thanks to Tom Angleberger for the link.

I sort of adore kids.  Allie Bruce at Bank Street was kind enough to show a bunch of them rewriting Battle Bunny / The Birthday Bunny (a book born to be taken and adapted) in their own unique visions.

They do love their poop.

Man.  It’s a bummer when someone popular online has your name.  It’s even more of a bummer when they’ve rabid fan bases.  Meghan McCarthy created a short film to separate her from the other Meghan McCarthys.  Can you blame her?

For the record, the only Betsy Birds I know of out there are an Arizona artist and a Muppet.  The day I beat that Muppet in Google search results was a happy one indeed.

And for our final off-topic video.  This one’s almost on-topic  Remember the film Hook?  With its Peter Pan link?  And the character of Rufio?  Well I can’t say this any better than i09 did, so I’ll just quote them verbatim: “Baby Rufio Cosplay Validates The Entire Concept Of Procreation”.