Archive for May 7th, 2003

Iraqi Most-Wanted Deck of Playing Cards

Wednesday, May 7th, 2003

My director let me thumb through his Iraqi Most-Wanted playing cards today. He ordered them off a Web site and passed the URL along to me. These cards are from United States Playing Cards, the real company that distributed the decks to the troops, not some trademark-infringing copy-cat. They even have a deck of Operation [...]

The Book Group Made Me Do It

Wednesday, May 7th, 2003

I tried to step out of the librarian stereotype by dying my hair purple for the Mystery Book Group I’m in. (Believe it or not, this wild group is sponsored by a branch of my local library.) As you can guess from my wording, it didn’t work. Don’t worry: my hair isn’t green or didn’t [...]