Librarians often have guilty pleasures that belie their professional personas. Your unhealthy fascination with celebrity gossip magazines, World of Warcraft, hip hop music, romance novels, or prostitutes won't qualify as a guilty pleasure if you're shamelessly blogging about it at the reference desk.
Ask the readers: What is your biggest guilty pleasure?
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
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Ponies.
lifetime original movies.
Everything you listed except World of Warcraft. I'm not THAT big of a loser.
Well, okay. It is just romance novels. But you totally called it!
Magic the Gathering Card game
Reruns of Star Trek Enterprise every Tuesday night on SciFi channel.
Tuesday? OOooooo! Today's Tuesday! :)
New Super Mario Brothers on my DS Lite
Pokemon... also on the DS. fun fun!
"Charmed" reruns...I'm so ashamed...
Anything with vampires in it - Anne Rice novels, Dracula in his various roles in various media, random Japanese anime & manga, low budget horror films from the 1970s...
Benders.
Librarianship
Playing competitive Boggle. Alone.
Reading on Livejournal about the fetishes and depravities of others.
Doctor Who (classic). EastEnders. Mr. T. Dynasty. Gossip Girl. Smoking (strictly legal stuff).
Trek is so not a guilty pleasure. Wear that geek badge with pride!
America's Next Top Model.
Rabbit Bites
I love Rabbit Bites! Buns and Chou Chou making me grin....
Reading People magazine at the haircut shop or the doctor's office, but of course never at the library.
Sports uniform trivia, especially baseball, and the Uni Watch blog.
The RSS feeds for nearly 200 Flickr groups, members, pools, and tags.
Battlestar Galactica!
Lost. And, um, lolcats.
Thanks Anonymous 2:47 pm
It's just that I'm such a disappointment to my mother. She insists I'll never get married with such geeky interests.
Fruitcake. Yes, it's a pleasure.
Watching this online (while at work!)
www.nbc.com/30rock
Don't tell anyone...or everyone will want one.
National public library policy.
And the lady with the duffle bag on the morning train.
OMGponies!!1! - cuteoverload.com
Sometimes I accidentally-on-purpose leave the patron screen activated and everyone passing by gets to see the puppies-and-bunnies-and-cats-oh-my!
Fashion.
Trashy memoir.
Singing Justin Timberlake’s “sexyback” while dancing like Elaine from Seinfeld in the staff lounge while my Lean Cuisine is heating up in the microwave.
Listening to the "Pirates of the Caribbean" soundtrack at maximum volume.
butter pecan ice cream
Twin Peaks reruns on Sleuth.
fanfiction...Harry Potter and JAG fanfiction at that... (I don't view my reading of Pride and Prejudice fanfiction as quite such a guilty pleasure because most of it is much better written...)
Getting paid to play Magic: the Gathering and AD&D for teen programming @ the library.
BTW- my wife and I watch Star Trek all the time- we even borrow the seasons from the library- next gen, voyager, etc.
Can you say "greatest job ever"?
Just about any competitive dating show out there: Bachelor/Bachelorette, Rock of Love, Temptation Island (full episodes of the latter on Hulu!)
Harry Potter fanfic- wow. A guilty pleasure indeed. I was none to pleased with the epilogue myself, Anonymous 4:55 pm.
BTW- married people can totally watch the Trek. It's all about finding the right person to share the Kirk Shoulder Rolls with. Worry not, Trekkie- they're out there.
Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga. Yes, I am helping plan a release party in August for the final book.
Fanfic OMG.
Project Runway
Music Videos on YouTube
Nip/Tuck
Blogs/websites: I can has cheezburger, the Sartorialist, Apartment Therapy, Television without Pity, What is Alan Watching?
Clearly, I've way too much time on my hands...
This is so fun!
Perez Hilton Celeb gossip
Today Show
The View
Sportscenter
I'm with Nugget...
Charmed reruns
Celebrity Gossip Blogs
US Magazine... I slip it inside the New Yorker :)
Librarian's Guide to Etiqutte
Writing porn, romance novels, and the whole Lindsay Lohan/Samantha Ronson thing!
More Guilt:
Page Six
La Dolce Musto
People
Us ("stars...they're just like us!")
Trekkie Pride! I am a Trekkie child of Trekkie parents with a Trekkie husband - embrace the Trek! I saw the best numberplate on a car ever - NCC1701 - subtle yet geeky, I love it!
I watch an incredible amount of really bad tv...for a librarian.
All My Children
Gordon @#$(*$! Ramsey shows.
Any lousy B movie or Z movie.
Punk rock and the current opera scene, but then I'm a very sick librarian.
With issues.
trashy magazines
Japanese dolls & toys (my house looks like a toy store!)
supernatural romance novels
hostess chocolate cupcakes w/ the white squiggly thing on top
All Zelda Nintendo games.
Project Runway.
Scrabbulous.
Found Magazine
www.foundmagazine.com
and its comments section
All of that stuff....while KNITTING!
Gossip Girl and gangster rap. I realize they are opposite ends of the "Guilty Pleasures" spectrum...but that's how I roll.
Reruns of the OC and yes I need to buy the series :)
Eating several maraschino cherries straight out of the jar....
Drag Racing - a 1970 Plymouth Barracuda going 135 mph down the track.
Degrassi the Next Generation...OMG, its the best
Bubbletown (Facebook app)
Yaoi
MXC
People.com
on-line real estate listings
People.com news feed, Y&R and B&B on the DVR. And Petfinder
for me, it would be LOLcats, Google News, Gossip Girl (the pics of Britney at the beginning of the year were very amusing.. she's becoming 'normal' again, if that's possible)
Enid Blyton books
eating chocolate chip cookie dough out of the tube, while watching Coronation Street on the CBC
dating programs. I miss Change of Heart.
Home decor, organizing other people's closets and learning nothing from TLC's What Not to Wear.
Jon and Kate + 8
I don't think anyone has posted this one yet: 80s hair metal! And I'm hopelessly addicted to MySpace and Facebook.
Project Runway.
WWE Smackdown and Webkinz...SOMETIMES at the same time!!!
Currently it's Buffy and Heroes.
VH1's "I Love..." series. The "I Love the 80s" is my fav but the "I Love the New Millenium" is cool too. Weird how tech from 2001 seems so antiquated now.
I am also relieved to know that my fascination with People magazine is common among my compatriots. I am suprised no one has mentioned http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com/, a blog which makes me laugh until I cry. I only look at it in the secrecy of my office, though.
And small powdered donuts.
Paranormal romance
Yes! Zelda rules!
Also Capt Janeway on Voyager. She's my BFF.
World War II
Oh dear, "Ladette to Lady"
lolcats, loldogs, lolponies, loldinosaurs...
Planning my next life as a poltergeist.
Drug lit.
Project Runway.
Nutella. WoW. Rock Band. Time travel romance books. :)
the spike show "1000 ways to die" and marshmallow peeps with a glass of milk...
Taco Bell.
Celebrity Jeopardy
Rail accident investigation reports. :(
Stargate Atlantis.
And Baking.
Brought a whole lot of cupcakes to the library one day for staff party.
...got three smooshed to my face.
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