I Should Have the Weekend Off Starting Now...

Here's the usual Friday collection and it is only Thursday!

Bookshelves are for expressing the "person you want to be," and not a reflection of what you have already read, according to Gawker. Libraries, ahead of the curve once again!

There's an entire person camouflaged in the bookshelf in the image. Read more....

Children's book art, which is gorgeous, is now being taken more seriously....

Take the beatnik quiz that accompanies an On the Road with the Beats exhibit at the University of Texas at Austin. Ironically, I was talking to a freshman composition class about beatniks just the other day. They were excited. Hey, daddio, the youngsters love it when I reminisce about the old days.

Damn the sub-prime mortgage market. Edith Wharton's home, The Mount, is in danger of foreclosure.