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Armchair Travel: The Middle East

One great way to recover from your first half-marathon is to sit on the couch and catch up on all the wonderful books you’ve got checked out on your library card. Lately I’ve been dabbling… more →

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Armchair Travel: The Middle East — 4 comments

eleventh stack wrote 2 weeks ago: One great way to recover from your first half-marathon is to sit on the couch and catch up on all th … more →

Tags: Arabs, armchair travel, Banned Books, Christians, Comedy of Manners, Difficult Conversations, Fiction, haifa, Intellectuals

Midlife Marathon Musings — 3 comments

eleventh stack wrote 3 weeks ago: The Pittsburgh Marathon, which seemed so far off when I registered for it, is only five days away no … more →

Tags: Advice, Generation X, Life Is a Highway, Marathons, Metaphor, Midlife, Midlife Crisis, Running, Turning 40

Little Mix Teams Up With Missy Elliott for "How Ya Doin'" REMIX

techtonicpop wrote 1 month ago: http://youtu.be/ma-7dTArDtQ Little Mix is slowly becoming one of my favorite groups! This quartet ha … more →

Tags: Music, X-Factor, One Direction, 90's, tulisa, VEVO, pop culture, Little Mix, how ya doin'

Life After Life, After Life After Life — 10 comments

eleventh stack wrote 1 month ago: Neither U.S. nor UK copyright law protects titles of books. This means  that someday I can call my m … more →

Tags: Historical Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Humor, Fantasy, Copyright, Duran Duran, Realism, Kate Atkinson, Jill McCorkle

Radio, Radio! — 24 comments

eleventh stack wrote 1 month ago: Back in the day, before Philo T. Farnsworth turned the world upside down with tiny television tubes, … more →

Tags: Pittsburgh, History, crafts, Holidays, 80's music, Chocolate, npr, classic radio, Philo T. Farnsworth

"That'll Be The Day": Unpacking The Searchers — 9 comments

eleventh stack wrote 2 months ago: Like many men of his generation, my dad is a huge John Wayne fan. He has seen every single one of th … more →

Tags: History, Love, mythology, racism, Westerns, Unreliable Narrators, morally ambiguous protagonists, Glenn Frankel, Coded language

African American Women in Art (For Science)

eleventh stack wrote 2 months ago: Ever since Sky wrote about sketching, I’ve had art on the brain: making it, appreciating it, l … more →

Tags: Contemporary Art, Visual art, Artists, Art History, African American women in art, women of color in art, Art Exhibits, Web Resources, Electronic reference

Oh Dear, Richard III — 7 comments

eleventh stack wrote 3 months ago: Proving once again that truth is frequently stranger than fiction, the bones of King Richard III, of … more →

Tags: Biography, Blackadder, Car Park, Dawn French, Electronic resources, Facts, Historical Fiction, Humor, Memes

We're Souper, Thanks For Asking! — 2 comments

eleventh stack wrote 4 months ago: Looking for something to do next weekend that doesn’t involve pigskin and cleverly-designed at … more →

Tags: Pittsburgh, Music, Collaboration, Philanthropy, Fun, kittens, free community event, WYEP, Hearth

Confessions of a Wanna-Be Doomsday Prepper — 18 comments

eleventh stack wrote 4 months ago: You wouldn’t think, to look at me, that I worry about disasters as much as I do. I seem normal … more →

Tags: Humor, zombies, gardening, canning, Neuroscience, Doomsday, Survival Skills, Aikido, Emotions

Presents You Can Open Early: Zinio and Freegal — 5 comments

eleventh stack wrote 5 months ago: We are as pleased as punch to present two new digital library services that will rock your world! Th … more →

Tags: Apps, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Digital Content, Downloads, freegal, Magazines, mp3, Music, Reading

10 Things You Need to Know Before You Read The Casual Vacancy — 16 comments

eleventh stack wrote 5 months ago: As I’m writing this post there are still over 700 folks waiting to read J.K. Rowling’s n … more →

Tags: american novels, british novels, canadian novels, J. K. Rowling, kittens, Politics, Read Alikes, Scottish novels, Social Problems

Take It to the Fridge! — 2 comments

eleventh stack wrote 6 months ago: Or, rather, take it out of the fridge: today is National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day. Only a sel … more →

Tags: Bad Puns, Food Safety, Holidays, Housekeeping, Humor, James Brown, Kitchens, Martha Stewart

Halloween Happenings @ Your Library! — 4 comments

eleventh stack wrote 7 months ago: Even though Wednesday, October 31st is the official 2012 trick or treat day in the Pittsburgh area, … more →

Tags: Halloween, Library Programs, something wicked this way comes

Lovers and Fighters — 2 comments

eleventh stack wrote 7 months ago: “If you can’t take the punches, it don’t mean a thing.” –Warren Zevon … more →

Tags: Biographies, mythology, Violence, Metaphor, boxing, Youngstown, ray boom boom mancini, Warren Zevon, Howard Cosell

Banned Books Week: Fun Home — 6 comments

eleventh stack wrote 7 months ago: In celebration of Banned Books Week, we’re highlighting a few of our favorite books (and autho … more →

Tags: Graphic Novels, Comics, LGBTQ, Alison Bechdel, Banned Books Week

Om Sweet Om: Yoga For Everybody — 6 comments

eleventh stack wrote 8 months ago: Downward, dogs! Originally spotted on Facebook. Ask ten different people why they maintain a yoga pr … more →

Tags: spirituality, Science, Curiosity, Philosophy, Yoga, Asana, Skepticism, Exploration

Om Sweet Om: Yoga For Everybody — 6 comments

eleventh stack wrote 8 months ago: Downward, dogs! Originally spotted on Facebook. Ask ten different people why they maintain a yoga pr … more →

Tags: spirituality, Science, Curiosity, Philosophy, Yoga, Asana, Skepticism, Exploration

Books and Braaaaaaains — 10 comments

eleventh stack wrote 8 months ago: Admitting this will never make me popular, but I actually like Mondays. If you “did” you … more →

Tags: zombies, Lawrenceville, Book Buzz, remedy, Braaaaains


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