My blog about choking out librarians and booksellers at BEA earned the BEST BLOG spot on the front page of this website. I guess choking out librarians taps into some kind of deeply held subconscious desire in the lit community. I mean who doesn’t want to slap a sleeper hold on a librarian? Here's the screengrab...

For those of you who aren't up on your Count Dante/Bob Calhoun trivia, throughout much of the time that I was wrestling in Incredibly Strange Wrestling, I worked as a library technical assistant in several Bay Area specialty libraries. I did far too much loose leaf filing for local law libraries (probably the most tedious job in all of bibliodom) and was sometimes the default library director at St. Mary’s Medical Center in SF because, well, for vast stretches of time, nobody else worked in the library except for me and a couple of volunteers. I was the whole show; doing Medline searches, ordering documents, shelving books, processing books, prepping journals for the bindery and panicking when I realized that the journal subscriptions were about to run out. I was also doing technical support on the library PCs that the residents used and AV setups on top of the library duties. If that wasn’t enough, I often fielded long assed booking calls where Audra, The Cruiser and me would determine just what the hell to do with The Poontangler and Super Pulga in the next Fillmore show. Thank God that place had a sound proof office for some reason. It was a Catholic hospital you know and nuns were always strolling into that library. Come to think of it, some level of Catholic guilt probably fueled the concepts behind those ISW matches.

But yeah, wearing crazy assed kimonos and choking out librarians -- it's the way to get ahead in this world.

(PS: I hope this post doesn't hurt my current job search! Damn those blogs!)