did you hug a librarian today?

or better yet. why don't you take me out to dinner. get me drunk. and tell me i'm pretty.

this week is national library week. that's right. librarians all over the country are patting themselves on the back. for protecting your rights. and for constantly nagging people to read.

to celebrate, i suggest we all take a field trip to the new york society library. it's perhaps the classiest library around. i imagine that while there, i would have to hold books with my pinky fingers sticking out.

don't take my word for it. the new yorker and papercuts are also smitten with the nysl. and their exhibit of roosevelt letters. did we all know that teddy roosevelt's wife was named edith kermit roosevelt? i did not. and frankly, i am now obsessed.