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LibrarianOfBabel

Last seen: 6 days ago

LibrarianOfBabel is a person from Where Hearts Were Entertaining, June, Brazil

"To perceive the distance between the divine and the human, it is enough to compare these crude wavering symbols which my fallible hand scrawls on the cover of a book, with the organic letters inside: punctual, delicate, perfectly black, inimitably symmetrical."

  • Let's Talk For a Moment

    Created Nov 13

    It seems that SU's transformation is almost complete. It begins to writhe within its greasy coccoon, a hungry chrysalis yearning for ecdysis, sure that it is soon to burst forth as The Next Big Thing.

    Whatever.

    Here's what I've been doing lately:

    tacticalsyntax.blogspot.com [tacticalsyntax.blogspot.com]

    IT WAS NOT WORTH THE WAIT. Yet, there it is.
  • So I Took a Month Off...

    Created Mar 11 2009

    ...and I think I may make it permanent.

    The entire idea came to me on a whim born from the bitter fumes of alcohol--as my ideas so often do.

    "SU bores me," I thought. "I shall leave it forever."

    Forever eventually turned into "I'll check back in after a month," and here I am (minus a few hours). My conclusion: I did not miss this place one iota.

    In fact, not having that tacky, ungainly toolbar marring my otherwise pristine Firefox interface was like having a great stone wheel unshackled from my feet. Mechanically clicking the Stumble! button dozens of times looking in vain for something (ANYTHING!) interesting was a rote activity towards which I found no nostalgic urge. I discovered no compulsion to get up to date on whatever empty, facile e-dramas had played themselves out in great futile circles during my brief absence. I did not miss SU's clunky, ugly interface, and its pseudo-blog foundation was one case in which absence clearly does not make the heart grow fonder.

    Some of the users, perhaps, I missed. Many of them I missed after they were banned for their first or second time, and I began to lose track of who was who or when or why.

    So, with that said, it is unlikely that I will return in any meaningful capacity. Consider this my final word on the matter.

    I may check in periodically to reply to PMs (though, let's be honest, why would I start now after dutifully ignoring them since 2004?).
  • http://www.thenadyasulemanfamily.com/

    Rated Feb 11 2009 85 reviews thenadyasulemanfamily.com

    A living testament to the fact that some parts of America are like a third world country. Like her vagina, for one.
  • Jumbler :: by James Padolsey

    Rated Feb 11 2009 58 reviews padolsey.com

    Holy shit is this old as hell.
  • http://www.vetocorleone.com/2009/02/amazing-yearbook-phot...

    Reviewed Feb 11 2009 49 reviews vetocorleone.com

    Nancy Pelosi was a real sweet peach back in the day. Va-va-voom! I'd have sure liked to have taken her to a sock hop and then awkwardly fondled beneath her poodle skirt in the back of my old man's Studebaker.

    In other news, Dick Cheney wasssss onccccccccce a maaaaaaaan.
  • Vatican buries the hatchet with Charles Darwin -Times...

    Reviewed Feb 11 2009 5 reviews timesonline.co.uk

    The Catholic Church is, at its core, survivalist. As goes the wind, so goes the faith. I am convinced that come the heat death of the universe the Catholic Church will still exist, and will find some way to escape.
  • Josh & Imp

    Rated Feb 11 2009 139 reviews jinxville.com

    Whereupon I Lay Mercilessly Into the Creative Words of Another, Not Because It Gives Me Joy, but Because I Am a Heartless SOB Who Genuinely Thinks It More Valuable To Scorn With Purpose Than Praise Unduly:

    Frankly, this bored the shit out of me. The girl could be the daughter of a cop, or a high-powered attorney, or a United States Senator, or anything really. The superhero schlock is a gimmicky glaze for a very standard young romance story that is even more nauseatingly adolescent than most in its treatment of the subject.

    Using stand-ins for comic book icons can be done to great effect ("Invincible" and "The Boys"come immediately to mind). Here, however, it borders on laziness. The Batman stand-in is nothing more than that and, as I said, could easily be substituted for any powerful, overprotective father figure.

    That said, this is a noble--if hopelessly juvenile--effort from two untested talents, and I am sure that the creators will go on to produce works of greater ambition on more worthy topics.


    I much preferred this.
  • 2P START!

    Rated Feb 10 2009 15 reviews 2pstart.com

    In the beginning there was Penny Arcade and it was... well, it was fine. It did what it did, and what it did was did by no other.

    For a time.

    All too brief a time.