I thought I might have my photo in this thing, but if it's in there, I don't see it. But still.
Do you see it? Okay. No "but still." It sucks that I'm not in it. Especially since Libraryman left this comment on the photo on my Flickr page, "LOVE IT! Watch for it in the video! Thank you!"
Maybe I'm hiding behind one of the cats? Aw, screw it. Enjoy the video.
Okay. I'll play along and link to a Michael Jackson-related video. This is from the 2008 National Library of Australia staff Christmas party. It must be nice to work in a place that has six new matching book carts.
One of our book carts is so old, the wheels are made of wood.
One of our carts is so old, it was used to haul away victims of the Black Death.
It's so old that when Johannes Gutenberg gave it to us, he said that as soon as he invents a way to mass produce books, he'd want it back.
It's so old that the first time it won a "pimp my bookcart" contest, the contest was called "cuckold thy book cart."
(this is a video, in case you can't see it, www.youtube.com/v/KZ-y7yaKBiY) "Hi, I'm the Holiday Rat. From all of us at the effing librarian, Season's Greetings. I guess that's it. Maybe I should have rehearsed this. Since this is such a professional website and you expect more from me. That effing librarian guy is right over here, just off camera with his hand up my ass. If you just crane your neck or mess with the video like in the movie, The Ring, you might be able to see him. He's not even paying attention to what he's doing. I think he's looking at porn. Anyway, thanks for a fun year, and buy a freakin mug! Happy holidays!"
I didn't want to watch this thing because, really, I thought it would super lame. I still think it's about 17% dorkified, but that's better than most stuff out there that claims to be entertainment.
I can't imagine anyone who visits here wouldn't already know about this video, but here it is, anyway.
