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Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Quote of the Day (Helen Mirren, Likening Social Media to ‘A Stinky Old Pub’)
“It reminds me of a stinky old pub. In the corner
would be this slightly disgusting old man who sits there all day, every day. If
you went up and talked to him, you’d get the kind of grumpy, horrible, moldy,
old meaningless crap that you read on Twitter.” — Actress Helen Mirren, quoted
in David Hochman, “A Wise and Witty Dame,” AARP:
The Magazine, June/July 2014
I'm a librarian (no, NOT a "cybrarian" or "information scientist" or any of the other trendy terms the profession has come up with), as well as a freelance writer/researcher; my political leanings are contrarian, much to the dismay of friends on the left and right, and so I will give anyone looking for my vote exactly what they deserve -- the back of my hand
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