Library Police

AAAAAAH HA HA HA HA HA!

Guess what?  There really is such a thing as the Library Police!  Apparently, the Library of Congress has their own.  Check it out, these guys can actually say stuff like "Library Police!  Put down the Hemingway and come out with your hands up!"  Oh god, that's priceless.  I so work at the wrong library.  How cool would it be to make friends with the Library Police?  Man, I could actually scare the crap out of some little kid, and have the fire power to back it up.  Could you make a TV show out of it, I wonder?  Kinda like NCIS, but with books?  What would it be called?  LPIS?  CSI: Library?  "Yes, Agent Grissom, it would appear the victim suffered blunt force trauma to the skull when all five volumes of the Library of Congress Subject Headings were dropped onto his head.  To add insult to injury, he was buried under the pages of the AACR2.  How very gruesome." 

Okay, it's official.  I've been watching too much crime TV.  It'll only get worse now that we switched to Showtime yesterday, and I got my first taste of Dexter.  I can finally see for myself what all the hype is about, since we have Showtime on Demand and I can catch up on the first two seasons.  Oh, what a dark, twisted little show that promises to be.

Damn it!  When did I start watching so much TV?  Curse you DVR and your convenient partner in crime, On Demand!  Curse you and your convenience, you evil seducers, you!  Curse you for being so bloody entertaining!  Curses!  Curses, I say!  *Shakes fist melodramatically.*  I so need to get out more. 

Right after I catch up with Dexter.

Comments

[april]

the first thing i thought of was that ep. of "seinfled" w/ phillip baker as the library cop...that was some really funny stuff. :)

[Lizzy]

As a reminder, Dexter is based on a book. There is actually a series of them out there by Jeff Lindsay (actually a pen name for Jeffry P. Freundlich). But from what I have seen, the show is just as good as the books.

And for the best book police officer around look no further than Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series. His books are triptastically awesome in that wacky British/Douglas Adams way.

Reading makes me happy!

[Stacy]

Now we could use their services. If I hear another "how'd this book/magazine get buried at the bottom of my book bag," I'll call them myself. LOL

[Trickster]

Never much cared for Seinfeld (except for the Soup Nazi--that dude was funny!), so I missed that episode. Of course, we wouldn't need Library Police if my boss would just let me have a battle axe like Rupert Giles has! ;-)

I do remember "Darkly Dreaming Dexter" being the big to-do when I worked at the bookstore awhile back. I didn't make the connection until yesterday when I got lost in a Wiki hole and ended up on the Dexter page. Drat. One more book to add to my inbox. *sigh*