Hey, everyone and time for yet another #WednesdayBookClub! Today's library is of Shakespeare and Company in Paris, France. The first Shakespeare and Co. was founded by Sylvia Beach in 1919 and originally started as both a library and a bookstore until it was closed in 1940. It was reopened in 1951 by George Whitman and …

Your home town: the quiet, rural sort of which you were inadvertently made Mayor, invokes feelings of that wonderful, easy-going atmosphere. There are days when you may go to your favourite spot on the beach to fish. Sneaking up on bugs requires ninja stealth, and running from bees is all in a day's work. Life…

Dunno if these were posted here before, but I fell in love with the artwork and the total feel of these wonderfully preserved images.

The Joe Danger games have offered up top-shelf vehicular hilarity on consoles and touchscreens for the last two years. Now, Hello Games’ physics-happy stunt racing franchise finally comes to PC on June 24 via Steam. You’ll be able to race with Team Fortress avatars and speed your way through a Minecraft level in this…

This should be my last post about Man of Steel (and there was much rejoicing). I downloaded the soundtrack yesterday and it's great. It's very Hans Zimmer-y so YMMV depending on how much you like his style. No spoilers (other than what's in the trailers).

Being a Brief and altogether Spurious History of the Burtonian Institute

An official grade for the condition of comics, now.....

The Desk is super busy today as it's exam week for the undergrads, so I haven't had time to a new board. You're gonna have to put up with a classic! Anyways... any questions?

I get to be a Bond villain DJ (as if there ever was one?) at the Philadelphia Museum of Art tonight! (I'm DJ John Burke, in case you were wondering...)

I finished Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane yesterday; started reading just after I bought it. (Kept reading out of necessity.) (Biased opinion: read it! It's brilliant. It's a remarkable story.) Non-spoilery review is copy/pasted from my goodreads (unless you want to read it knowing nothing, which is…