In my "day job," I'm a librarian. It's glamorous, I assure you. I don't talk about it much in this blog because it doesn't really fit with the topic at hand. But as I was reading through some Library Land blogs, I saw my two worlds collide.
I read this post by Annoyed Librarian that referred to this column by Boston sports columnist Bob Ryan.
In the column, Ryan writes about Patriots QB Tom Brady and how the offensive support he has this year outweighs the support he had last year. Ryan argues that Brady is as good of a QB this year as he was last year, but this year the stats match the performance. Ryan also says that you won't actually hear Brady toot his horn all that much. I assume this is because Brady is a gentleman (as evidenced by being a hands-on Dad to his bastard son whose mama he dumped to date a Brazilian supermodel).
In the article, Ryan writes "And you can be sure Brady will be seen in public with a homely librarian before he engages in any discussion about the difference between the receivers he was forced to work with last season and the ones he has now."
Librarians all over this great land of ours got their noses out of joint because Ryan insinuated that librarians are homely. Copious letters to the editor were written about stereotypes and "cool" librarians. It seems, almost a month later, that the seas are less choppy and that librarians have gone back to being the lame, fuddy duddy, "shush"ers we all know and love. It's hard work, my friends, but somebody's got to do it.
I was just amused that Ryan insinuated that Brady was a gentleman...
--Mrs. Dude, Colts fan
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