Comments on: Follow Your Heart, and Don’t Be Negative!

By: w.o.w.

w.o.w. — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 07:44:40 +0000

The New AL (or AL2.0) is rather different from that old girl who we were all used to. this first post is very much a first post. sadly, after glancing ensuing posts, they don’t appear to be much better than this one. o well.

By: Aphasia

Aphasia — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:29:50 +0000

You what annoys me?

Did AL have a stroke? or did AL accidentally the whole verb?

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:20:11 +0000

Sure, it’s probably a different person. AL, a created character with a big ego that will go on and on. After the various contributors to this ego retire, or die, maybe we’ll find out who they were. One at a time a new AL, the only AL, the true AL will be revealed. Yep. When it starts raining pigs and noodles.

By: ConfusedByItAll

ConfusedByItAll — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:33:34 +0000

A week without writing practice, maybe?

By: Judas

Judas — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:29:26 +0000

a) All AL blog posts are at least well written.

b) This blog post was banal and not written well at all.

c) Therefore, this blog is a socialist plot.

By: Ever Searching

Ever Searching — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:11:38 +0000

Thank goodness I’m not the only one who thought this AL post was odd. Either the REAL AL has been replaced by a wannabe or else AL didn’t get enough rest. It’s not that we like AL’s cynicism, it’s that we respect her depth of experience and absolute ability to say what we think but get riduculed for saying out loud in our institutions or in “liberryland.” Much of that clarity of thought and depth of expression was missing in this post.

By: Geoffrey

Geoffrey — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:55:57 +0000

I gotta go with “AL=??” on this. This post doesn’t read ANYTHING like previous posts. It was snarky before, but usually well-written. This is just bad, like a college newspaper humor columnist. Whoever is behind this, it’s time to give it up…

By: ek7fh

ek7fh — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:37:26 +0000

What a shame your resignation would have been…

I’ve just interacted professionally with my first 2point0pian, who was a brittle and over-bright about the smile as school district functionaries were in the early ’90s. (Remember “Continuous Improvement?”)

He texted a reference question and explained to us that the answer would come back as a text. “Isn’t that kewul?” he said. (Long, deep silence. I fell from potential grace as surely as Icarus fell from the sky.)

What is kewuller about text, as distinct from email, a phone-call, a package through the mail?

You know what is *really kewul*?

Getting a courteous and factual and comprehensive answer to any question you might want to ask, from a complete stranger.

Free.

By: AL=??

AL=?? — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:12:47 +0000

I guess the Library Journal did put someone else into this slot. Of course writing this blog requires the use of a madlib book.

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:49:10 +0000

haha — Just as I figured. The created character, AL, has too big an ego to actually call it quits.