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| Sunday, June 25, 2006 | The Unshelved Book Club presents "Heir Apparent" by Vivian Vande Velde / [[A girl lies on a couch wearing a helmet with goggles. Wires from the helmet attach to the wall. Above the wires a large screen presents a knight about to stab a maiden.]] / Dewey: 14-year-old Giannine is playing a total immersion... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060625 |
| Monday, June 26, 2006 | [[Merv and Dewey are standing by the Lost & Found box]]
/ Merv: I think it was blue.
/ Dewey: You THINK? You said it was your cell phone. / Merv: A dark color.
/ Dewey: And you don't know the brand? Or the model? / Merv: Can't I work with someone else?
/ Dewey: No. I had the honor of losing the coin... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060626 |
| Tuesday, June 27, 2006 | [[Merv and Dewey in the library.]]
/ Dewey: So what you really want is to rifle through our lost and found for valuables.
/ Merv: Ah, you understand! / Dewey: No.
/ Merv: "No" as in "no I don't understand?" / Dewey: "No" as in "it's my job to say 'No' to you."
/ Merv: But I was so close! http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060627 |
| Wednesday, June 28, 2006 | [[Dewey is holding a cell phone from the library's lost and found box.]]
/ Dewey: This phone has been in our lost and found for four months. Say I give it to you.
/ Merv: You'd do that? / Dewey: Let's say I do. Then what would you have?
/ Merv: I'd have a phone? / [[Merv peeks inside the lost and found... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060628 |
| Thursday, June 29, 2006 | [[Dewey walks into Mel's office.]]
/ Dewey: Merv has an idea.
/ Mel: Hold on. / [[Mel leaves the office.]] / [[Mel walks into the office wearing protective sports gear and carrying a bat.]]
/ Mel: Shoot. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060629 |
| Friday, June 30, 2006 | [[Dewey and Mel are talking in her office.]]
/ Dewey: The lost and found is full of valuable items that are never claimed.
/ Mel: True. / Dewey: Why not auction them on eBay?
/ Mel: Good idea. Let me refer you to our ecommerce specialist. / [[Colleen is sitting at a computer, Dewey is standing behind... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060630 |
| Saturday, July 01, 2006 | [[Mel and Dewey having a conversation]]
/ Dewey: We made $273 on our lost and found auction.
/ Mel: That's good! / Dewey: But it took Colleen and me three days to list everything and ship it out.
/ Mel: That's bad. / [[Merv enters the panel]]
/ Dewey: But I was the high bidder on this pen that makes... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060701 |
| Sunday, July 02, 2006 -- The Unshelved Book Club presents: JPod by Douglas Coupland | The Unshelved Book Club presents: "JPod" by Douglas Coupland / Dewey [[holding a copy of the book Jpod, talking to an older man]]: Ethan Jarlewski is designing a gritty, inner-city skateboarding video game.
/ Patron: In my day we played "Snakes and Ladders"
/ Dewey: Then the new marketer decrees it should... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060702 |
| July 3, 2006 | Mel: One of our communities has requested library service.
/ Dewey: I'm not dressing up. / Mel: I think I can accommodate that. / [[Dewey is standing outside a picket fence; shirtless people, a cabin, and trees can be seen behind it. The sign on the fence reads "Mallville Nudist Colony and Frozen Banana... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060703 |
| Tuesday, July 04, 2006 | [[At a frozen banana stand at the Mallville nudist colony]]
/ Nudist frozen banana vendor [[to Dewey]]: We were expecting a book mobile.
/ Dewey [[with a dolly full of books]]: I've got this dolly. / Nudist frozen banana vendor: Ah, you reject internal combustion just like we reject clothing. Shedding... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060704 |
| Wednesday, July 05, 2006 | [[In a changing room at the Mallville nudist colony, Dewey is taking off his clothes.]]
/ Dewey: Let no one ever challenge my commitment to my profession. / [[Dewey pokes his head out of the changing room and sees Ned in a suit.]] / Ned: Dewey.
/ Dewey: Ned.
/ Nudist [[coming up and pointing at Ned, speaking... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060705 |
| Thursday, July 06, 2006 | Dewey: No, in the case of "Revenge of the Sith" I really think the novelization was better than the movie. And I don't usually say that. / [[Background of trees reveals Dewey is outside and appears to be naked, talking to another naked woman. Strategically placed patron and hand truck hide their nakedness.]]
/ Woman:... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060706 |
| Friday, July 07, 2006 | [[Dewey is working at a nudist colony. A nude man comes up to him.]]
/ Nude man: There's someone at the gate for you. Claims he's your assistant. / [[Merv stands on the other side of the fence.]]
/ Merv: I want to see live nude girls! / [[An older nude woman walks up to Dewey and Merv. Merv looks... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060707 |
| Saturday, July 08, 2006 | [[dewey and tamara at counter with patron, behind computer]]
/ Patron: Dewey! You look different with your clothes on!
/ Dewey: You too! / [[Now the patron has walked away]]
/ Dewey: Actually he looks about the same. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060708 |
| Sunday, July 09, 2006 | The Unshelved Book Club presents "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli / Dewey: Stargirl Caraway is the talk of Mica Area High School.
/ One day she's wearing an old wedding dress, the next a kimono or buckskin.
/ She plays ukulele in the lunchroom and sings to her fellow students.
/ Is she a circus acrobat? An... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060709 |
| Makeup | Mel: Don't react
/ Dewey: To what? / Tamara: Not one word.
/ Dewey: About... / [[Colleen shows up with a clownish makeup job]]
/ Colleen: Which eyeshadow looks better- blue or black?
/ Dewey: You can't go wrong with both. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060710 |
| Tuesday, July 11, 2006 | [[Dewey is talking to Colleen who is wearing heavy makeup.]]
/ Colleen: So I decided, "What the heck!" I got a complete makeover and reclaimed my youth!
/ Dewey: Uh huh. / Colleen: Apparently I'm a "summer" or was it "autumn"?
/ Dewey: I think you're a heretofore undiscovered season. / Colleen: [[leaning... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060711 |
| Wednesday, July 12, 2006 | [[Dewey and Colleen. Colleen is wearing alot of makeup.]]
/ Dewey: That's a lot of makeup.
/ Colleen: It was from the bargain bin. Frankly, I don't know what to do with it all. / Colleen: Mel! You're just the person I wanted. / [[Mel is heavily made-up, including false eyelashes.]]
/ Mel: I did this... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060712 |
| Thursday, July 13, 2006 | [[Young patron sees bag of markers on a table]] / [[She pickes one up with a smile]] / Colleen: This is your influence.
/ [[She is holding up the girl, whose face is painted like Gene Simmons from KISS]]
/ Dewey: Now stick your tongue out! http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060713 |
| Friday, July 14, 2006 | Merv: Makeup? you don't need it.
/ Colleen: Why, thank you, Merv. / Merv: I've already decided that when I get old, people are going to have to put up with me sagging all over the place. / Merv: And as my cells start to decay, I'm going to quit bathing.
/ Colleen: You should have stopped earlier.
/ Merv:... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060714 |
| Will Work For Books, Saturday, July 15, 2006 | [[Dewey is standing outside the library, holding out his hat and wearing a sign which says "Will work for books.]]
/ Mel: You can come back to the library - - the bond levy passed. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060715 |
| Sunday, July 16, 2006 - The Unshelved Book Club presents "Agent to the Stars" by John Scalzi | The Unshelved Book Club presents "Agent to the Stars" by John Scalzi / [[Dewey provides the voiceover to a scene from the book: an executive-type guy introducing a green blob-ish alien in an aquarium tank to Tom, the book's protagonist.]]
/ Dewey: Thomas Stein just negotiated a multimillion-dollar fee... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060716 |
| Sunday, July 16, 2006 | The Unshelved Book Club presents "Agent to the Stars" by John Scalzi / [[A gray-haired executive is introducing a younger executive to a green blobby alien.]]
/ Dewey: Thomas Stein just negotiated a multimillion-dollar fee for his client, the hottest starlet in Hollywood.
/ His name is all over the industry... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060716/ |
| Monday, July 17, 2006 | [[Dewey approaches the library to see a very long line waiting at the door.]] / Dewey: Is there a new Harry Potter?
/ random mom: We're here for summer reading prizes.
/ random kid: I can't believe I'm getting a computer!
/ older kid: I can't believe we're *all* getting computers! / Dewey: There's no... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060717 |
| Tuesday, July 18, 2006 | [[Dewey is talking to Tamara, who is holding a reading program poster.]]
/ Dewey: Why does every child in Mallville expect a computer as a summer reading prize?
/ Tamara: There was a misprint. / [[Tamara walks away.]]
/ Tamara: I'll go tell them.
/ Dewey: I don't think you should do that. / [[Tamara turns... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060718 |
| Wednesday, July 19, 2006 | [[Tamara faces an unhappy crowd]]
/ Tamara: On behalf of the library I apologize. There's been a mistake! / [[Tamara's head is barely visible over the crowd]]
/ Tamara: Not everyone wins the grand prize. There's only one computer-- / [[Tamara is being pulled back by Buddy, whilst cans and other objects... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060719 |
| Thursday, July 20, 2006 | [[Back of Tamara's head as she faces out the door, Mel facing Ned over a piece of paper, Colleen behind Ned, Dewey faces Buddy, who holds a calculator]]
/ Tamara: But folks, reading is its own reward!
/ Mel: You're saying we owe everyone a computer?
/ Ned: You broke the law of unintended consequences.
/ Colleen:... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060720 |
| Friday, July 21, 2006 | [[Merv faces Mel and Dewey]]
/ Merv: You have a problem. And I am a problem solver.
/ Mel: We don't need your help.
/ Dewey: The library accidentally promised a computer to every kid in town. / [[Merv gestures, Dewey ponders with hand under chin]]
/ Merv: Define "computer".
/ Mel: What do you mean by that?
/ Dewey:... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060721 |
| Saturday, July 22, 2006 | Mel: The fake computer giveaway was our most successful summer reading program?
/ Tamara: Ever. / Tamara: The key is to build unrealistic expectations and then disappoint.
/ Mel: Let's not tell Dewey. / Tamara: I think he knows it instinctively.
/ Dewey: My book sale just collapsed like a soufflé at... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060722 |
| Sunday, July 23, 2006 | The Unshelved book club presents "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin / [[throne room scene king and queen watch as a dog-like animal is killed by a man with a sword. A girl is held back, weeping, from aiding the animal.]]
/ Dewey: Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell values honor above all.
/ Appointed... http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060723 |
| Monday, July 24, 2006 | Tamara: Why are you giving me your library card? / Randy: Because I'd like to check you out! / Tamara: Doesn't pain teach him anything?
/ Dewey: Maybe it taught him that he wanted more. http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20060724 |
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