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This one’s for Amy, who’ll be starting her new library job soon: Comic Books for Young Adults, a guide for librarians wishing to integrate comics into their regular holdings. Pretty cool. I really enjoyed Joss Whedon’s Fray and I’ve found myself perusing the “Graphic Novels” section at Borders more often. The ones I want are all so expensive though! I’d love it if I could check them out of the library.

Note to Aussies: Fahrenheit 9/11 is scheduled to premiere at the Melbourne Film Festival on July 22 and will open nationally a week later.

Nothing ruins the buzz of a nice cold beer on a sunny day quicker than hearing your co-workers joke about the fact that your President can’t even properly pronounce the name of the prison where we’ve been illegally torturing “enemy combatants.” What an idiot.

“Treatise on matching socks for the modern obsessive-compulsive.” I have to admit I know exactly where Patrick is coming from here. I have a lot of seemingly identical black cotton socks that actually feel wildly and obviously different once they’re on my feet. I tend to judge by length and color fade at first, but the elasticity test is truly the ultimate weapon.

I know I’ve been cheating on the whole Atkins thing quite a lot lately… but I’m going to shape up, I swear. As of now, I’m going on the No Carb Diet. HA! That is brilliant. (Link courtesy of Emily.)

Huh. Check out the interrobang. A punctuation mark I’ve never heard of?! Pretty cool. (More on interrobangs here.)

We made Martha Stewart’s Chicken with Ginger for dinner last night, and it was pretty darn yummy.

New Poll: I’ve been looking at our Vegas hotel options and now I’m all in a muddle. Should we spend a lot of money on someplace really nice – Did you know that the Luxor‘s elevators travel diagonally?? – or stay somewhere downmarket and have more cash to spend on activities? In other words, how should we “do” Vegas? Register your vote down on the right.

Just found a great interview with Gary Oldman about his role as Sirius Black in Azkaban. (There’s a slight spoiler at the very end if you haven’t read the fifth book.) Some thoughts:

• Gary Oldman “needed the work”? That’s a damn shame.
• He was married to Uma? Uma Uma??
• His kids are named Alfie, Gulliver, and Charlie. I think Charlie lucked out.
• Someone please tell him that Friends is over.
• Whoa, Mo Slater from EastEnders is his sister? I didn’t know that!
• If Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs had been the Beatles, Oldman thinks that Sirius was John Lennon. I’ve never quite thought of them that way before.
• I liked the bit where he said he was all excited about earning money for four more films… until he read the fifth book. Damn.

Overall he comes much funnier and less weird than I expected. I’m getting so excited about this movie!

More from Cannes: Quentin Tarantino and his fellow jurors have taken the unprecented step of publicly defending their selection of Fahrenheit 9/11 as the winner of the Palm d’Or. QT insists that the award was about filmmaking, not politics. Very cool of him. I hope the Australian distributor gets the film out here soon. (The funniest part of that article is the sidebar story that mentions how Tarantino has been doing Irma P. Hall’s voice from The Ladykillers for three days. What a geek!)