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Microlibraries spread to Charlestown
By adamg on Mon, 07/21/2014 - 11:54pm
Mediacrity shows us the city's newest tiny library, at Main and Warren streets in Charlestown.
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Does the city of boston
Does the city of boston provide these small library book shelves, or is it just someone randomly setting these up in the neighborhood.
Random
And excellent.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
This is a hipster thing,
This is a hipster thing, right?
I think the mini libraries are kinda charming
This one looks very nice.
A minority of them are eyesores that look like crap. Those, I'm willing to blame on wake-and-bake hipsters.
Who cares, it's awesome!
Who cares, it's awesome!
Keep your can of awesome
Keep your can of awesome sauce unopened and to yourself.
America is a hipster thing.
Going back to Pilgrims with funny hats trying to farm in cranberry gravel plains.
The Salem Witch Hunts were undone when Puritan hipsters found out that Cotton Mather was a bit too curious about one bewitched young woman's breasts and began laughing him out of town in the early hipster coffee houses of the period.
Thomas Jefferson and Sam Adams were insufferable hipsters, a stoner and a brewer.
Hipsters in America are usually the ones dragging America forward when its various reactionaries want to restore feudalism with them conveniently in charge.
But don't tell anyone as the thin skinned neurotics who get all shrill at the thought of a hurled epithet will be swooning mightily and shrieking at the temerity to maybe possibly name something wrong.
I'll have you know I frequently and proudly describe myself as an aging hipster without caring if it is used as a mudball by some cubicle drudge up to their ears in a different kind of status anxiety.
This will antagonize aforementioned shrill but it is kind of funny to watch em sputter as the mouth breathers provide a counter melody of petty derisions.
Right, hipsters are exactly
Right, hipsters are exactly like the founders. It was hard not to notice the similarities when you all pitched tents on the Greenway and occupied until.
Now you are getting it.
There isn't much outrage to stoke in it all
Not that you won't try.
But you'd perk up and shut up if they dressed up like Native Americans and tossed some dry goods into the water over profit making squabbles.
This is a hipster thing,
Correct. Please commence sneering down your nose at it immediately.
The micro-libraries are obviously not just for hipsters.
They're for everybody, and they're an excellent idea, imho.
In case you actually want to know the history behhind them
http://littlefreelibrary.org/ourhistory/
www.littlefreelibrary.org
This one has the "official" sign of the Little Free Library Group but it isn't on their map of locations yet.
http://littlefreelibrary.org/
Has instructions for building and photos of many that have been built. Love the old phone booth versions. And, of course they sell their own versions.
Another ...
... box has been at Bunker Hill St. at Main for some time, between the community garden and the theatre.
Not new
I think it's been there a while; not sure when it sprung up, at least a few months, maybe more.